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Nagoya’s Nihon Gaishi Hall was a hotbed of fisticuffs last night as two WBC title fights resulted in one big victory for Japanese boxing. Seven months after Fernando Montiel ended Hozumi Hasegawa’s 10 defense reign as WBC bantamweight king, the veteran southpaw returned as a featherweight, clashing for the vacant …

Leva Kirakosyan insists he will knockout Steve Foster Jnr. The Russian knockout artist (33-5) defends his European super-featherweight against Foster Jnr (27-2-1) at Bolton’s Reebok Stadium on Saturday (2/10). Kirakosyan, 36, won the European title in February with a frightening third round stoppage of Scott Lawton displaying world class power. …

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 …

By Per Ake Persson Sergey Dzinziruk, WBO junior middle champ but inactive since November 2008, continues in Ukrainian media to claim his contract with Universum is over with but what does Universum say? Well, today Universum have for the first time commented on the case and confirms a contractual dispute …

There was a massive show at Sparkassen Arena in Kiel last night with three world title belts at risk. The big winner was Zsolt Erdei who moved up a weight class to unseat reigning WBC cruiser champion Giacobbe Fragomeni by majority decision. Hungarian Erdei had held the WBO light heavy …

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 …

The European Super Featherweight title was fought over on Friday at Sporthalle Brandberge at Halle an der Saal in Germany and reigning champion Sergey Gulyakevich, 26-1 (12), retained the belt with a hard earned victory over previously unbeaten European Union Champ Vitali Tajbert, 17-1 (6). Women’s flyweight superstar Susi Kentikian, …

By Per Ake Persson Russian junior welter Dennis Shafikov, 16-0, faces former WBA Lightweight Champ Raul Balbi from Argentina in a non-title ten-rounder on P3 Boxing´s big show at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki on November 28 in what should be an interesting fight.

Ruslan Chagaev´s postponed defense of the WBA Heavyweight Title against Nikolai Valuev will according to German news agency DPA take place on July 5. The site has not determined. Meanwhile Universum strongly dismiss a story in Bild Zeitung as to why the fight was postponed. According to the tabloid, basing …