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© Tom Casino / Showtime Boxing Once-beaten John O’Donnell, one of the top welterweight prospects in the UK, weighed in at 146.9 pounds and 1996 U.S. Olympic bronze medallist Terrence “Heat” Cauthen tipped the scales at 147.1 pounds during Thursday’s weigh in at the historic York Hall in London, England.

Former Undisputed Welterweight and Junior Welterweight Champion Zab “Super” Judah (39-6, 27 KO’s) of Brooklyn takes the next step in his quest to regain his Junior Welterweight Crown on Saturday, October 2nd, when he takes on Michael “Cold Blood” Clark (40-5-1, 18 KO’s) of Columbus, Ohio at Newark’s spectacular Prudential …

Team Sauerland regrets to inform the boxing world that WBC Super Middleweight Champion Mikkel Kessler has been forced to pull out of the Super Six World Boxing Classic due to an eye injury. His title defence against Allan Green in Herning, Denmark on September 25 has been cancelled. “This is …

Audley Harrison has told David Haye to “man up and sign” to fight for the World Heavyweight title in a Battle of Britain bout in November. Harrison and his Promoter, Matchroom Sport managing director Eddie Hearn have been locked in talks with Adam Booth over the past weeks, with a …

Promoter Ahmet Öner announced his plans for the next years at a press conference in Hamburg today. “Boxing in Germany is pretty simple”, the Arena CEO said. “Everything is good as long as you have German fighters with championship potential. “The only problem is that there are only very few …

Marco Huck’s WBO Cruiserweight Title Fight against Matt Godfrey will be special for more reasons than just one. The hard-hitting 25-year-old (29-1, 22 KOs) will make the fourth defense of his title on Saturday night in Erfurt, Germany, which will mark the 100th broadcast of a Sauerland show on German …

After countless months of rumors and hype, Orangeville natives Logan Cotton-McGuinness (11-0-1, 5 KO’s) and Buzz Grant (9-3, 4 KO’s) are set to square-off in one of the most anticipated grudge matches in Ontario boxing history on Saturday, September 25 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, for the NABA …

Carl “the Cobra” Froch will be joining up with highly regarded trainer Rob McCracken at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield on Monday morning (26th) to start his intensive 10 week training camp ahead of his crucial Super Six Group Stage 3 face off against the German based Armenian …

Golden Boy Promotions is pleased to announce that Hall of Fame promoter and matchmaker Don Chargin will renew his affiliation with Golden Boy Promotions as a special consultant and advisor effective immediately “I am thrilled to have Don back at Golden Boy,” said Golden Boy Promotions CEO, Richard Schaefer. “His …

InterBox is proud to announce that the IBF has approved the staging of an mandatory title bout between top contender Jesse Brinkley (35-5, 22 KO) and IBF Super Middleweight champion Lucian Bute (26-0, 21 KO). InterBox also reports that it has reached agreement with Let’s Get It On Promotions and …

It hardly gets any closer than this. At today’s purse bid for the European heavyweight championship between Alexander Dimitrenko and Denis Bakhtov in Rome, Arena outbid Universum by only 200 Euros. Arena’s offer of 157,000 Euro was slightly enough to make sure that Universum at 156,800 Euro cannot stage the …

By Per Ake Persson Russian heavy Denis Bakhtov has accepted to step in as along with Aleksander Dimitrenko as co-challenger for the vacant European title. The EBU have set June 21 as deadline for purse bids or agreement and the fight must go ahead before July 31. Audley Harrison remains …