It looks like heavyweight Oleg Maskaev is going to get a crack at Hasim Rahman in the summer. Does the Kazak deserve a crack at Rahman’s WBC belt?

It’s looking like Hasim Rahman will defend his World Boxing Council heavyweight title against Oleg Maskaev, the Kazakhstanian comeback kid, on Aug. 12.

It looks like Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing’s Mr. Pound-For-Pound, can afford to be pretty darn picky and choosey.

He’s fought some of the tougher featherweights in the game today, and acquitted himself pretty well. But against tear gas, well, Scott Harrison apparently did not have the same brand of luck.

Some eyebrows were raised when boxing’s newest rock star, Brit welterweight Ricky Hatton, prepared to invade America with an eye on our biggest targets, and then settled on relative unknown Luis Collazo as his first conquest.

With seemingly not a care in the world, Wladimir Klitschko totally dominated IBF heavyweight champ Chris Byrd over six one-sided rounds before lowering the boom, aka the right hand, at 47 seconds of round 7 Saturday at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany.

It’s looking less and less likely that Russian-born slugger Kostya Tszyu will make his way back into the ring, and give the savage science one more go.

Fight fanatics should be on the lookout for HBO’s reworked Boxing After Dark.

According to “supertrainer” Emanuel Steward, his Ukrainian powerhouse heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko wants to unify the heavyweight belts, and will perhaps start by signing on to fight Hasim Rahman.

After getting bucked on his last prediction effort (”Estrada over Cintron”), ESPN2 Friday Night Fights announcer Joe Tessitore is looking to get back, and stay, on the saddle.