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Australian boxing trainer Gareth Williams believes his charge Damien Hooper can go on to become one of the country’s greatest ever fighters. Hooper, a 2012 Olympian, entered the professional ranks in a blaze of glory last month, stopping the experienced Garth Murray inside five rounds.

Heavyweight contender David Haye gym doors open to Hollywood this week, yet insists his mind remains focused on a June 29 clash with Manuel Charr in Manchester. Actresses Michelle Rodriguez and Gina Carano, stars of Fast & Furious 6, visited the Vauxhall-based gymnasium while on a promotional tour and offered …

Next Friday, May 17, sees Driffield’s Curtis Woodhouse make his first in-ring appearance since controversially losing his English light-welterweight title to Shayne Singleton back in March. The oft-exciting Woodhouse has been kept busy since the crushing setback as his online altercation with a Twitter troll became global news and has …

Fast-rising Liverpool super-bantamweight James “Jazza” Dickens says he isn’t too bothered about not being able to defend his English title on May 24 as he’s got the opportunity to win another belt. Manager Steve Wood has searched high and low for a suitable opponent for the St George’s belt but …

Ireland recorded a shut out 10-0 victory over France in Friday night’s Elite international at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. Paddy Barnes, Michael Conlan, John Joe Nevin, who won silver and two bronze medals at the London Olympics, Sean McComb, David Oliver Joyce, Adam Nolan, Jason Quigley, Joe Ward, …

World Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko (59-3, 51 KOs), of Ukraine, in his 2013 debut, will be making title defense No. 14 in his current seven-year reign as heavyweight kingpin. Klitschko meets undefeated Top-10 contender and cancer survivor Francesco Pianeta (28-0-1, 15 KOs), of Italy. “Dr. Steelhammer” will also be going …

Respect was the name of the game this afternoon as heavyweight contenders David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye and Manuel ‘Diamond Boy’ Charr met at a Manchester press conference ahead of their bout on Saturday, June 29, live on Sky Sports. Though known for their outspoken antics, Haye and Charr left the …

The stars and scribes always come out when Floyd “Money” Mayweather fights, and there will be an abundance of both when the Eight-Time and Five-Division World Champion returns to the ring to face Six-Time and Four-Division Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero in the highly anticipated main event of “May Day: …

InterBox and Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM) are proud to announce all six undercard bouts that will support the historic fight between Lucian Bute (31-1-0 24 KO) and Jean Pascal (27-2-1 16 KO) on Saturday, May 25th 2013 at the Montreal Bell Centre. Four title belts will be on the line …

Ken Egan is backing Joe Ward against Abdelkader Bouhenia of France in Cork and Dublin on Friday and Sunday. Ireland meet France at the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork on Friday night (7.30pm) and at Dublin’s National Stadium on Sunday (2pm). “Performance on the day is what it is all …

Eight-Time and Five-Division World Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Six-Time and Four-Division World Champion Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero made their grand arrivals on Tuesday at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, formally kicking off fight week for “May Day: Mayweather vs. Guerrero” taking place this Saturday, May 4, live on Showtime …

A big night of boxing is lined up for Saturday May 4 at the Multiversum arena in Vienna-suburb Schwechat, featuring two of Austria’s most popular fighters, Gogi Knezevic and Timy Shala, in World Boxing Federation Intercontinental title fights. Knezevic (24-4-1, 12 KOs) will be taking on rugged and experienced Hungarian …