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Russia’s premier boxer is back in action tonight as Dmitry Pirog will put his WBO middleweight belt on the line for the first time, meeting challenger Javier Francisco Maciel at DIVS Arena in Ekaterinburg. Pirog hasn’t been in the ring since winning the vacant title in July, 2010 with a …

Tonight, in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, at “Featherweight Fury!” Yuriorkis Gamboa will defend his WBA featherweight and IBF titles against interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Jorge Solis and undefeated NABF & NABO champion Matt ‘Sharp Shooter’ Remillard of Manchester, Conn. will defend his featherweight titles …

Teeraporn, the first WBO World champion for Asia showed great form. Her fighting style is very attractive, so much that German Promoter Universum contacted Teeraporn aka Female Rambo to challenge WBO,WBA, WIBF flyweight titlist Suzianna Kentikian, considered to be the best in the world. Suzianna is intelligent in fighting style. …

WBA and IBA Light Heavyweight World Champion Beibut Shumenov took the fast track to become world champion, establishing a weight-class record along the way, and now he wants to accelerate his road to stardom. Shumenov is set on a mission to unify the titles starting with his next bout, hopefully …

WBO No. 2 rated heavyweight David “Tuamanator” Tua complained about a sore left shoulder during several training sessions leading up to his July 17th 12-round draw against former world title challenger Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett in Atlantic City. However, when asked about it by his trainer, Roger Bloodworth, David said …

Power-punching David “Tuamanator” Tua isn’t looking past his opponent tonight, former world title challenger Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett, despite being mentioned as a future opponent for world champions David Haye and the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir and Vitali. Tua trained in Jersey City, New Jersey to prepare for Saturday night’s 12-round …

Veteran boxing trainer Roger Bloodworth, who has known Samoan strongman David “Tuamanator” Tua for nearly 20 years, training him exclusively for the last five years, believes Tua will soon shed the label as the best contemporary heavyweight never to be world champion.

It is hard to find much about David Tua the fighter that is not fan friendly. He has a legendary knockout punch as his stoppages of heavyweight title holders Hashim Rahman, John Ruiz, Oleg Maskaev and Michael Moorer still to this day cap many highlight reels. His personality outside the …