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March 1 will be the most important day in the career of two-weight world champion Ricky Burns as the Scot meets the challenge of America’s Terence Crawford at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition Centre in defense of the WBO lightweight title. Burns, 36-2-1 (11), did a genuine tightrope act in 2013, when …

Former Undisputed boxing World Cruiserweight and Heavyweight Champion – Evander ‘Real Deal’ Holyfield, entered the Celebrity Big Brother house tonight shackled to Luisa Zissman who came second in ‘The Apprentice, UK, 2013.’ Holyfield said he was confident of winning the UK Reality show – despite not really knowing what the …

The middleweight division could be the best weight class in the sport today, featuring a talented cast of characters from nearly every continent on the globe but will the titles ever be unified? Just who is top man at 160 pounds? That’s impossible to determine until the major players face …

Now that 2013 is on it’s way out the door, let’s take a look at what 2014 may hold for the star-studded welterweight division. Floyd Mayweather, 46-0 (26): the top man at both 147 and 154 pounds, “Money May” is, at age 36, winding down a career that has seen …

On the 1st of February, Gennady Golovkin, (28-0 with 25 KO’s), will be taking on Osumanu Adama (22-0 with 16 KO’s) in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Not to discredit the fighter Adama, but “GGG,” as Golovkin is know, should have secured a premium opponent in a bout held at Las Vegas. …

Tonight at the Colisee de Quebec, in Quebec City, Canada, Liverpool’s Tony ‘Bomber’ Bellew challenges Adonis Stevenson of Quebec for the WBC Light-Heavyweight Title. This will be Stevenson’s second defence of the title he won in June this year, when he scored a first round KO over Chad Dawson. He …

The Carl Froch v George Groves fight on Saturday night is sure to be debated for a long time in terms of it’s ‘edge of the seat’ drama. ‘The Cobra’ was defending his WBA and IBF super-middleweight titles against undefeated ‘Saint George’. It was an enthralling contest which saw the …

Credit to George Groves for managing to get himself into mandatory position for the IBF super middle title that Carl Froch has or we would not be seeing this fight between the two boxers, which takes place this Saturday night in Manchester, England. Froch would have done exactly what Joe …

Earlier this week it was announced that rising British Heavyweight star Anthony Joshua has been forced to pull out of his forthcoming contest against Argentine journeyman Hector Alfredo Avila with a torn bicep. The match up, which would have been over six rounds on the bill of Carl Froch’s grudge …

Manny Pacquiao is coming off two straight losses at the hands of Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez, however, the Filipino fighter has said in the press that he has moved on from those defeats and he is looking forward to a new chapter in his boxing career. His upcoming …

Recently it has been announced that the former WBO Light-Heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly will return to the ring on the 30th November at the Copper Box Arena at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to challenge the Australian, Daniel Ammann, for the vacant Commonwealth Cruiserweight title. The 26 year old Welshman, who …

It’s official, the fight to determine Canada’s elite fighter will take place on January 18 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Following the announcement in late winter last year that the mega fight to determine the best Canadian fighter between Jean Pascal (28-2-1) and Lucian Bute (31-1) on May 25 …