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“The Tiger” Prepares For Showdown With Heavyweight Champ Wladimir Klitschko On July 12 My funny bone is slowing going, and thinking more on breaking bones! But first. lets talk about what’s going on in camp. The last installment left off with me taking an iniquitous ass whooping from my fellow …

Carl Froch has now got his hard-earned shot at the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title against Jermain Taylor later this year but hopes his co-challenger doesn’t bottle out of it. Undefeated British Champion Froch has been elected to fight the American, Taylor, a former undisputed middleweight champion, for the prestigious …

World ranked and undefeated cruiserweight BJ Flores wanted to set the record straight regarding media reports that he rejected an offer to fight CES promoted Matt Godfrey next month on ESPN2. Speaking after a training session with former heavyweight world champion Hasim Rahman in Phoenix, Arizona, Flores said, “Let me …

By Per Ake Persson Sauerland Event have acted quickly to the news that WBA Heavyweight Champ Ruslan Chagaev is injured and are asking for either Chagaev to be stripped of the title or to have Valuev allowed to fight for an interim title. This was the second postponement of the …

By Mesuli Zifo Top Australian flyweight fighter Hussein Hussein arrived at the East London airport yesterday for his IBF world title elimination clash against Moruti Mthalane at Jan Smuts Stadium on July 5. Accompanied by his trainer/brother Billy and a sparring partner, Hussein chatted freely with reporters and described his …

On Friday, June 20, Adalaide Byrd, Nevada Boxing judge and wife of World Boxing Hall of Fame Referee, Robert Byrd, received a call that her youngest brother, Aaron Tyndale, 44, of Pennsylvania had been in a terrible motor vehicle accident and his condition was grave. Tyndale had been traveling from …

Two weeks ago, St. Louis native Deandre “The Bull” Latimore scored the biggest win of his career as he stopped #1 IBF Junior Middleweight Sechew Powell in the seventh round at the Hard Rock Café in New York City. The bout, broadcast on ESPN2’s Wednesday Night Fights, is being called …

© Jim Everett / Saddo Boxing You wouldn’t know by reading all the boxing press in the media, but there is actually another fight taking place besides the Manny Pacquiao vs. David Diaz title bout on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. With all the focus …

Soon after it was announced that WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev had pulled out of his July 5 mandatory title defense against former WBA title-holder and No. 1 contender, Nikolai Valuev, due to another injury, John Ruiz, through his advisor and attorney, Tony Cardinale, contacted World Boxing Association officials demanding …

WBO Junior Welterweight Champion Ricardo Torres, his opponent, top-rated contender Kendall Holt, and undefeated brothers Lamont and Athony Peterson will host a media brunch today in Las Vegas. Torres and Holt resume their hostilities in a rematch of their highly-controversial 2007 world title fight won by Torres via 11th round …

During Monday’s press conference in Los Angeles, a goat, an alleged descendent of Murphy, the goat owned by William Sianis, was presented to Diaz and Pacquiao. Cubs fans are well aware of the “Curse of the Billy Goat” from 1945 when Sianis, the owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, and …

Jamie Sanigar presents a night of boxing on Saturday, July 12, 2008 at the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales as Dai Davies and Jamie Arthur clash for the Welsh Super Featherweight title, supported by a quality bill. Davies won the Welsh title with a ten round points decision against Henry …