Two of Don King’s top fighters have been added to Saturday’s card headlined by WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev his title opposing David Haye in Nuremberg, Germany, at Versicherung Arena. Former WBO heavyweight champion Sergei “White Wolf†Liakhovich (23-3, 14 KOs) will face dangerous veteran Jeremy “The Beast†Bates (22-16-1, 18 KOs), and undefeated cruiserweight…
This Friday at the Leagues Club in Parramatta, NSW featherweights Jackson Asiku and Heriberto Ruiz tangle for the vacant IBO crown in what should be a thrilling contest. Asiku, 25-3 (13), comes into this one riding a 14 fight win streak over the last five years and during that time the 31 year old native…
While local hero Paul McCloskey will be looking to be crowned European Light Welterweight Champion at the Meadowbank Sports Arena in Magherafelt on Friday night the undercard will feature a new heavyweight hopeful taking the first steps in his professional career. At the age of 33, David “Hardway†Hanna is unlikely to be referred to…
Rendall Munroe has been told he faces the toughest night of his professional career when he faces Simone Maludrottu (30-2). The Leicester binman (19-1) will be making the fifth defence of his European super bantamweight crown when he faces the tricky Italian mandatory challenger at Nottingham’s Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre on Friday, November 20. Promote…
One day before the start of their 2009-2010 basketball campaign, Coach Jim Calhoun and the Connecticut men’s basketball team met with local resident Chad Dawson on Tuesday at the XL Center, site of the undefeated Dawson’s rematch with Glen Johnson for the WBC interim light heavyweight world title on Saturday night.
One of the hardest-hitting prospects in the lightweight division will make his main event debut on Saturday, November 28 in an NABF Championship bout in the Grand Ballroom of the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, California. Undefeated knockout artist John Molina, Jr. (18-0, 14 KO), of nearby Covina, CA, will battle Mexico’s Martin Honorio…
Undefeated Andre “S.O.G.†Ward and his trainer Virgil Hunter have declared they are on schedule and building momentum toward the November 21 Super Six Tournament meeting with WBA Super Middleweight Champion Mikkel Kessler at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA. The 25-year old Ward (20-0, 13 KO) who, in Athens in 2004, was the lone…
World heavyweight title challenger David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye believes the sound of opponent Nikolai Valuev crashing to the canvas on Saturday, November 7 will surpass the noise generated by fireworks on Bonfire Night.
The Tuesday morning general assembly meeting at the WBC’s 47th annual convention saw the announcement of two major new projects of the WBC. One was two new webpages created by WBC President Dr. José Sulaimán and the other was the creation of a series of amateur and four and six-round professional boxing tournaments.
A brash, confident David Haye is going for a knockout Saturday against 2-time and reigning WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev in their 12-round title fight headlining the “David vs. Goliath†Pay-Per-View event being shown in North American live from Nuremberg, Germany. Haye, (22-1, 21 KOs), from London, ruled the cruiserweight division as unified champion –…
Two-time and reigning WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev isn’t letting constant trash- talking by 3-time world cruiserweight champion David Haye get into his head as he makes final preparations for Saturday’s “David vs. Goliath†world title fight being broadcast in North America live on Pay-Per-View from Nuremberg, Germany. Valuev (50-1, 34 KOs), from St. Petersburg,…
Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing announces a promotional alliance with Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club-NYC to produce a new series of star-studded boxing events. There will be a press conference held this Wednesday in New York to officially announce the joint venture and the company’s first upcoming event.