Wladimir Klitschko is not joining his brother in retirement anytime soon.

Klitschko, at 38 years old, is looking at another easy defense next Saturday against Australian challenger Alex Leapai. Klitschko has not lost in over ten years.

The Ukrainian has stated a goal that he wants to break Joe Louis record of twelve years as a world heavyweight champion. Louis reigned between 1937 and 1949.

“I just turned 38, but that's only a number,” Klitschko said. “I am still extremely hungry and better than ever. A few years ago, I thought I couldn't improve, but my mission is still a long way from over. I want to box on for ten more years.”

“I feel the combination of experience, athletic ability, technique and strategy makes the me the complete professional.”

Breaking Louis' record looks to be an attainable goal. There is no up and coming Mike Tyson or Riddick Bowe rampaging his way to the heavyweight title. Klitschko can spend the next four years (hell, maybe ten) facing the likes of Kubrat Pulev, Chris Arreola, Bermane Stiverne, Deontay Wilder, Mike Perez or Bryant Jennings...As boring and bland as Klitschko is, the odds are that he will remain champion for quite some time.

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“It's not about the loss,” Adrien Broner said in an interview with Boxingsocialist. “It's about how you come back from the loss. Triple crown world champion Broner (27-1) is dropping back down to the junior welterweight division but he realizes that all the big money fights still remain at 147 lbs and he has to keep his options open.

Broner is facing journeyman Carlos Molina (the one that fought Amir Khan, not the junior middle champ) in the prelim to Floyd Mayweather Jr. - Marcos Maidana. After that, he's looking to fight either Maidana in a rematch (“if he isn't too take too much punishment”) or another big name.

“Boxing is boxing and business is business,” Broner said. “I opened up another fight for my big brother. And I'm happy for him and I'm happy for Maidana, and I gave them a chance to make that fight happen. Maidana said the fight was too soon and he was having a baby. He could have ten babies, because at the end of the day he still has to fight Adrien Broner.

When asked about the possibility of fighting Manny Pacquiao, Broner said “Who knows? Shit, I ain't scared to fight that motherfucker. Shit, tell him to come on. I'll fight him. I don't care where we fight if I fight Pacquiao. Shit, we can fight at 115 if I can make it.”

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Armando Muniz, the Artesia Assassin, already has been labeled a man of destiny by those who have observed his rise to fistic prominence.

Seeing Mando in action for the first time, you have to conclude that he is a Philadelphia fighter. The stubby, iron-muscled Chicano welterweight is a go-getter with the unmistakable Philadelhpia style- the homicidal, take-it-to the other guy, never let up offense that for years have marked the brave battlers fro the City of Brotherly Love as the Kamikaze pilots of boxing (witness Black Jack Fox, Gil Turner, Lenny Matthews, Charley Scott, Sugar Hart, Gypsy Joe Harris, Stanley Kitten Hayward, Joe Frazier, ad infinitum).

Of course, Mando isn't really a Philadelphia fighter – he just fights like one. Actually, he was born into poverty 24 years ago in a small, dusty town called Delicias, in the Mexican state of Chihauhua, the second oldest child in a family of six boys and two girls.

His father, Sabino, was a pro middleweight in his younger days. But by the time Mando came along, Sabino had given up the ring to search for more rewarding employment.

It was a long search, and it took the Muniz family across the border to Texas, on to California, back to Texas and then to California again. Along the way, Sabino found employment as a handy man, service station attendant, construction laborer, and migrant farm worker, before finall landing a steady, good paying job as an operating engineer.

Along the way, Mando developed the physical and mental toughness that so often typify a youngr who survives as the perennial “new kid in school”. As the big brother of a tough, close knit clan, he carried himself bravely and fought the bullies of him many neighborhoods (the Munizes rarely stayed in one place longer than a few months) on their own terms, whenever and where he had to. Excerpted from BI April 1972

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Joe Frazier followed up his triumph in the “Match of the Century” with a win in the “Mis Match of the Century” just ten months later.

The outcome was settled the minute the fight was announced, Frazier beat an overmatched opponent, Terry Daniels, who was literally thrown into the Lion's den.

Never mind that Daniels lasted longer with Frazier than had Bob Foster or Dave Zyglewicz, or lasted I a heavyweight title fight as long as Tony Galento or Georges Carpentier, he was never in it to begin with.

Sure, as Frazier later admitted to his intimate friends, he had “taken Daniels too lightly,” and been “hurt,” Terry should have been in there in the first place.

Coming into the fight with a streak of two consecutive wins, Daniels was properly ranked #42 by Boxing illustrated on the day the fight was announced. And he had gained that exalted ranking by knocking out one Ted Gullick of Cleveland after being kayoed by Jack O'Halloran of Boston, ranked numbers 46 and 34 respectively. But, in order to dignify the match, the first heavyweight title fight held in New Orleans since the Sullivan-Corbett fight, the World Boxing Associated elevated Daniels to the number ten ranking...excerpted from BI magazine April 1972

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Rubin “Hurricane” Carter has passed away at the age of 76 after a battle with prostate cancer. Carter died in his sleep in Toronto, the New Jersey native's adopted hometown.

Carter was wrongly convicted for a triple murder which took place at a tavern in Paterson, New Jersey in 1966. Three white people were shot by two black men at the Lafayette Bar and Grill in Paterson. Carter and long time friend John Artis were convicted by an all white jury largely on the testimony of two thieves who later recanted their stories.

In his boxing years, Carter was a ferocious puncher who went 27-12-1 with 19 knockouts. He stopped Emile Griffith in the first round in 1963 and lost a unanimous decision to Joey Giardello in 1964.

Carter was released in 1985 at the age of 48. His case inspired the Bob Dylan song “Hurricane” and was the basis for the 1999 film “The Hurricane”, starring Denzel Washington.

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Bernard Hopkins took Beibut Shumenov to his master class and spanked him for a twelve round decision victory in front of 6,300 fans and a Showtime audience. “The Alien” scored an 11^th round knockdown and had his way with his foe despite one rather myopic judge scoring the fight in favor of Shumenov. The fight was embarrassingly one sided at times and Hopkins often looked like a cat playing with a mouse.

“Where's the 15 rounds at?” screamed the 49-year old Hopkins. “I'm a 15 round fighter.”

The AARP light heavyweight champion confused the former Olympian from Kazakhstan with clever footwork, timing and a hard jab. Shumenov seemingly fell into every trap that Hopkins set for him and grew progressively desperate as the rounds wore on. Interestingly, Shumenov had no trainer in his corner and trained himself for the bout. He had Jacob “Stitch” Duran working his corner applying vaseline/water with no instructions forthcoming from anyone outside of a few Kazakhs in the audience.

The announcers made a big deal out of the fact that Shumenov should have had a trainer. But that is an academic argument. Hopkins is in another league and Shumenov, while a great athlete, is not in the same league as a Chad Dawson. I thought Al Bernstein made an error in judgment as he kept decrying Shumenov's “lackluster performance.” Shumenov was trying hard. He kept shooting hard rights that would have fell a lot of top-10 light heavyweights. He was just in with someone whose boxing intellect far surpassed anything he could comprehend at this stage in his career.

Hopkins looks to face Adonis Stevenson before the year ends. Among his goals include fighting past his 50^th birthday (this January) and shrinking down to the 160 lb weight class to challenge Floyd Mayweather.

“Without work and just prayer you're a fool,” Hopkins said. “One works the other. You can ask and you can be on your knees, you can hope and you can do all these things. But if you don't go out and put the work in, it's all talk.”

“I'm not done yet, I tell you.”

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Shawn Porter impressed with a surprising fourth round stoppage of the normally durable Paulie Malignaggi.

Porter was too physical for the light punching Malignaggi. The first round was relatively close as it was a feeling out process but Porter opened a cut under Malignaggi's left eye with a hard jab. In the second, however, Porter simply imposed his will. He landed a leaping left hook and badly hurt Malignaggi who looked surprised at Porter's power. Malignaggi was pummeled over the course of the round but there was a feeling he could recover as he so often did in the past. The second round, however, proved to be no fluke as Porter continued the beat-down in the third, slamming Malignaggi with overhand rights and bullying him against the ropes. Porter ended matters in the fourth...he hurt the Magic Man bad with a hard right followed a vicious combination of shots that sent Malignaggi catapulting through the ropes and on to the ring apron. The referee called a halt to the bout and helped the Magic Man back into the ring.

Malignaggi engaged in his usual trash talk before the bout and had dismissed Porter as being a “basic” fighter. He was, however, gracious in defeat.

“Paulie wished me the best,” Porter said after the bout. “He said 'make sure they know that I lost to a great champion. Go out there and be great'. I am going to honor his words and his wishes.”

Porter now looks to defend against Kell Brook of the United Kingdom this summer.

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