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The International Boxing Organization has reached a verbal sanctioning agreement to fill its light heavyweight championship, which was declared vacant in May. IBO President Ed Levine said the organization “has been engaged in final negotiations with a qualified and highly-respected fighter” in the division and anticipates a deal being finalized …

This weekend the Capital’s boxing fans will be treated to a mouth watering battle for supremacy between current and former champions. The international contest, at York Hall in Bethnal Green, pits Mongolia’s WBF/WBU Featherweight Champion Choi Tseveenpürev against Australia’s former IBO Featherweight Champion ‘Action’ Jackson Asiku in a non-Championship bout.

Spencer Fearon announces that the next Hard Knocks Boxing event, ‘Summer Smash’, will take place at York Hall in Bethnal Green, London on Saturday 18th June 2011. Following on from the massive success of the ‘Shamrock Showdown’ event in March, Mr Boxing himself has put together a World class card …

The IBO light heavyweight championship – long the symbol of the truly elite at 175 pounds – is vacant. Because of an inability to reach a sanctioning agreement with Bernard Hopkins prior to his May 21 fight with Jean Pascal at Bell Centre in Montreal, it was decided going in …

Carl Froch kept hold of his WBC super middleweight title and moved into the finals of the Super Six tournament by posting a victory over veteran Glen Johnson last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. Johnson had predicted that his aggressive style would be too much for the champion to …

© Jose Espinoza / Saddo Boxing A 46 year old fighter stepped into the ring on Saturday night and emerged a champion. It was a moment that very few in the city of Montreal will ever forget. Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins beat out a young, strong and skilled Jean Pascal …

The season’s most anticipated rematch takes place tonight at Montreal’s Bell Center as WBC and IBO light heavyweight kingpin Jean Pascal once again tangles with the seemingly ageless Bernard Hopkins. The pair first rumbled this past December in Quebec City and the early rounds belonged to the champion Pascal, at …

June 4 promises to be a special night for British boxing fans as Gavin Rees takes on Andy Murray in Cardiff for the European lightweight title before Carl Froch’s Super Six semi-final against Glen Johnson in America – both on Sky Sports. Rees and Andy Murray tussle for the vacant …

Junior Witter and Colin Lynes head the bill for the Prizefighter Welterweights II at York Hall, Bethnal Green on Tuesday June 7 – the final Prizefighter of the season. Former WBC and WBF Light-Welterweight Champion Witter could face Lynes at the same venue that they met in 2005 when Sheffield’s …

Big fight card tonight from Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg as Daniel Geale knocked off reigning IBF middleweight ruler Sebastian Sylvester after a thrilling bout. Geale, a former undefeated IBO ruler until losing a controversial split decision to Anthony Mundine two years ago, put his height and reach advantage to good use, …

UBO Inter-Continental Bantamweight Champion Mbwana Matumla retained his title Sunday night at the PTA Hall in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania winning a unanimous decision over late substitute Gabriel Ochieng from Kenya after a thrilling fight. Former IBO World Champion Matumla (20-6, 11 KOs) got off to a good start, as …

A shot at the championship of the world is why most fighters enter the business of boxing. Terry Malloy, the hero in the 1954 Academy Award winning film, On the Waterfront, explained in a few famous words how his life and boxing career suffered because he failed to reach that …