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Undefeated WBC super lightweight champion Devon Alexander ‘The Great’ will dedicate his performance on Jan. 29 to his promoter’s wife of 50 years, Mrs. Henrietta King, who died earlier this month after a lengthy illness at age 87. Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs), from St. Louis, will face undefeated WBO junior …

WBA and IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov (10-1, 6 KOs) has been preparing for the biggest fight in his very short, but storied career, training for “The Unification,” his Jan. 8, 2011 blockbuster boxing event first at Team Barry Boxing in Henderson, Nevada with his head trainer and 1984 …

Integrated Sports Media, North America’s leading distributor of International Pay-Per-View and Closed Circuit sporting events, delivered 14 power-packed events this year from around the globe to sports fans in the United States and Canada. “I am proud that we were able to provide consumers with the opportunity to watch major …

Emergence as boxing’s next superstar is imminent now that light heavyweight contender, Ismayl “The Black Russian” Sillakh (14-0, 12 KOs) is scheduled to face fellow new contender Yordanis Despaigne (8-0, 4 KOs) in a March 4 main event on ESPN2. This fight features two of the only three undefeated fighters …

Thursday night at the Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan sees WBA super flyweight champion Hugo Fidel Cazares put his belt at risk against local hero Hiroyuki Hisataka. Cazares, 33-6-2 (24), has defended the WBA crown on two occasions since winning it from Nobuo Nashiro, ironically in the same venue as …

© Tim Snow – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions 45 year old former middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins finally looked to be an aging fighter during the early rounds of his WBC light heavyweight title challenge against reigning champ Jean Pascal but turned the situation around in the second half of …

WBOcruiserweight king Marco Huck had his toughest test yet as champion, getting through a difficult defense against previously undefeated Denis Lebedev by split decision last night at Max SchmelingHalle in Berlin, Germany. Huck, normally the aggressor in his bouts, chose to try and box his way past the shorter southpaw …

By Per Ake Persson Weights from Astana, Kazachstan: Both WBA middleweight (regular) champ Gennadyi Golovkin and challenger Nilson Julio Tapia scaled 72.2 kg / 159.25 lbs for tomorrow´s fight that headlines a show with the national amateur championships.

Colombian power puncher Alejandro “Naco” Berrio, former IBF Super Middleweight Champion, has signed an exclusive promotional contract with Boxing 360 and proved how serious he is about recharging his career that he moved to New York City.

© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Tonight, Great Britain takes on the world as James De Gale, Nathan Cleverly, Amir Khan, Matthew Macklin, Frankie Gavin, Tony Bellew and Kell Brook are all fighting…not each other, in a massive royal rumble type of affair…individually of course. Amir Khan …

On Saturday at The Torreon in Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico, IBF super fly kingpin Juan Alberto Rosas meets the challenge of ex-WBC/WBA champion Cristian Mijares. 29 year old Mijares, 40-6-2 (18), will be returning to the division he sat atop of during six title defenses for the first time since …

In one of the biggest upsets in Aussie boxing history, light middleweight world title contender Anthony Mundine was knocked out in five rounds by the far less experienced Garth Wood in a bout held at middleweight on Wednesday at Acer Arena in Homebush, Australia. Former two-time WBA super middleweight champion …