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Sam “The King” Soliman is one of Australia’s leading fight stars but despit being the IBF’s mandatory contender for some time, he has been unable to secure a spot in the title picture. Soliman has not lost a fight for three years and has maintained the IBF’s Pan Pacific championship …

Amir Khan will finally lace up the gloves for his professional debut this coming weekend. The teenager from Bolton, England who shocked the amateur community by reaching the Gold Medal stage of the 2004 Games while being England’s only boxing entrant, will take on David Bailey. It is not expected …

Former British and European super middleweight champion Dean Francis returned to action over the weekend. The Basingstoke banger who has knocked out nineteen of twenty-three opponents faced off against Paul Bonson and took a six round decision. All in all, the result does not speak volumes of Francis at this …

World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman said Monday the WBC has sanctioned an Aug. 13 Ricardo Mayorga-Michele Piccirillo bout at the United Center as a super-welterweight title fight. Sulaiman also told the Tribune in a phone interview that the sanctioning body hopes to decide by Friday whether WBC heavyweight champion …

Fremont, CA: It has be confirmed that “The Punisher” Jose Perez Jr the former 5 time National Amateur Champion will start off his summer with the biggest fight of his professional career. The fight is scheduled for July 23 at the San Jose State Events Center, San Jose, CA, Jose …

Thursday night’s New England Ringside Radio Show will be broadcast live from MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the site of Saturday evening’s PPV show between undisputed middleweight champion Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins (46-2-1, 32 KOs) and unbeaten middleweight title contender Jermain “Bad Intentions” Taylor (23-0, 17 KOs). New England Ringside …

Carl “The Cobra” Froch was the star of the show tonight in Nottingham Emgland but Southampton’s Matthew Barney made the home fighter work for his win. In what ended up as a very competitive fight, Froch could not assert himself in the way he would have liked and was unable …

Tonight in Nottingham England, Bradford based light welterweight Junior “The Hitter” Witter put on a sluggish performance to keep hold of his European light welterweight championship. Ukrainian challenger Andreas Kotelnik pushed Witter and gave the Briton all he could handle en route to a decision loss that many thought was …

Reigning undisputed world middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins, who looks to successfully defend his title for the 21st time on July 16 against top contender Jermain Taylor, will be featured on Fox Sports Net’s hit series “Beyond The Glory” on Sunday, July 10 at 8pm ET / PT. The show, which …

“Sucra” Ray Oliveira had the distinction of having never been stopped in fourteen years as a professional until last year when current IBF light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton stopped him in ten rounds. Firday night in New Hampshire, Emanuel Augustus repeated the trick only two rounds earlier. Augustus, the most …

Salford southpaw Jamie Moore has stopped Michael Jones in six rounds of their fight tonight at the Altrincham Leisure Centre in England. Moore was seething after losing to Jones in his last fight in November of last year as it appeared that a debatable set of circumstances saw him disqualified …

With great sadness, SaddoBoxing acknowledges the death of former light heavyweight contender Julian “Mr. KO” Letterlough. Letterlough, who gave boxing one of its most memorable fights in recent years against former WBO world light heavyweight champion Julio Gonzalez was apparently shot to death last night. He was thirty-five-years-old at the …