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Tyson Fury says he will battle with North American champion Nicolai Firtha at Belfast’s King’s Hall on September 17 because he wants to give the Irish fans a night to remember. The 12 round international contest will be shown live on Channel 5. British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Fury could …

The long matriculation of 2004 Olympic Gold Medallist Alexander Povetkin came to a close last night as the Russian outboxed ex-WBA titlist Ruslan Chagaev to capture the vacant WBA heavyweight belt at Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany. The bout started slowly as the combatants sized each other up with probing jabs …

There is heavyweight action on tap tonight at Messehalle in Erfurt, Germany as highly regarded former Olympic Gold medallist Alexander Povetkin gets his first shot at a world title, meeting Ruslan Chagaev for the vacant WBA heavyweight crown. A pro since 1997, 32 year old southpaw Chagaev, 27-1-1 (17), will …

After three years of talking and postponements the heavyweight unification fight we all want to see is finally taking place at the magnificent Immtech Arena in Hamburg. 60,000 fight fans will at long last see WBA champion David Haye take on the WBO and IBF Champion Wladimir Klitschko in arguably …

By Per Ake Persson Alexander Dimitrenko´s mandatory defence of the European heavyweight title against Albert Sosnowski has now been announced for December 4 (as previously reported) with Schwerin as site. Dimitrenko, from Ukraine, living in Germany and now a German citizen is making the first defence of the title. It´s …

In a highly anticpated matchup, Wladimir Klitschko defends his IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight laurels when he takes on The Nigerian nightmare Samuel Peter this Saturday night in Frankfurt. This is the second meeting of the two. Five years ago at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City Klitschko, survived two …

Stadhalle in Rostock was the scene of another big fight card as WBC super feather king Vitali Tajbert retained his title by technical decision and heavyweight Ruslan Chagaev won a WBA title eliminator. Tajbert faced perhaps the most experienced man in the super feather division, Mexico’s iron-chinned Hector Velazquez and …

With the twelfth round knockout of ‘Fast Eddie’ Chambers by Wladimir Klitschko in Germany the heavyweight picture has become clearer in terms of who the remaining talent is, and who is left to fight whom. The question is, will these bouts happen in the future? Vitali Klitschko’s upcoming bout against …

The World Boxing Association held meetings at their recent annual convention in Medellin, Colombia, where they ordered an interim heavyweight championship between WBA No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger Kali Meehan and former WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev. Meehan earned the WBA No. 1 position in October 2007 by scoring a sixth-round …

By Per Ake Persson So was ex-heavyweight champ Nikolai Valuev exposed by David Haye and before that by Evander Holyfield and Ruslan Chagaev as “just” a giant, incapable of boxing? Some seem to think so, not me though. I think it´s a case of a fighter who´s getting old, simple …

**With Slideshow** © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Saturday night at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, two British boxers fought on an historical boxing occasion due to the number of people that had packed in the venue. Paul Butlin and Michael Sprott boxed on the undercard of the Wladimir …

© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing In the early hours of Sunday morning, media gathered in the press room allocated at the Veltins Arena, Germany for the post-fight press conference of Wladimir Klitschko and defeated Ruslan Chagaev. Chagaev looked completely dejected as he sat on the top table. Wearing a …