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Fresh off of his dominating performance against four-time world title challenger Jameel “Big Time” McCline, two-time WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz (43-7-1, 29 KOs) has fought himself back into position for another world title shot.

IBF Light Middleweight Title Champion Cory Spinks: 153 lb Challenger Verno Phillips: 153 lb

Promoter Don King stages the “Pride of St. Louis” boxing event at Scottrade Center in St. Louis tonight where in a groundbreaking move, the following four matches can be seen live at donkingtv.com for free beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, except where it is blocked in the St. …

It has been almost a year since Danish super featherweight prospect Kim Poulsen lost what many felt was a very questionable decision to Frenchman Tony Jourda. Since then Poulsen has racked up four clear consecutive victories while waiting for his opportunity to get his revenge against Jourda, and that opportunity …

Daniel Herdman is confident there will be no repeat of his nightmare professional debut when he has his third paid fight at the York Hall in Bethnal Green on Friday, April 4. The Stevenage boxer is part of the undercard on the Hennessy Sports show which features Jonathan Thaxton of …

WBC Female Fighter of the Year and current minimumweight champion, Carina “La Reina” Moreno will be honored at the First Annual Salute to Women’s Boxing ceremony set to take place this Sunday March 30, 2008 at the Commerce Casino located at 6131 E. Telegraph Road, City of Commerce, California.

The North American Boxing Federation has granted the Tachi Palace’s Christian Printup with its annual Women’s Boxing Promoter of the Year award for his excellence in female boxing. This marks the second consecutive year where Printup was the successor. “I humbly accept this award on behalf of all my staff …

Ricky Hatton delivered a knockout blow to Ant and Dec last weekend, snubbing the British TV stars for big pal Matthew Macklin. The world light-welterweight champion was due to appear on their prime-time show ‘Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway’ which pulls in millions of television viewers. But ‘The Hitman’ …

Apparently, it was too good to be true – a super middleweight showdown between a former world champion, Denmark’s Mikkel Kessler, and one of the sport’s brightest young stars, Edison Miranda, to be held on May 24th and aired on Showtime. But it’s not to be after Kessler pulled out …

Former World Champion Cesar Bazan arrived in Letterkenny this week promising to wreck Paul McCloskey’s unbeaten record. The two men meet in the top of the bill on this Saturday’s Hunky Dorys Fight Night at the Letterkenny Leisure Complex and Bazan is brimming with confidence ahead of the clash. The …

Stoke’s 31 year old British super-flyweight champion Chris Edwards put the finishing touches to his training schedule last night with a light run and is now relaxing before the first defence of his title on Friday night. Edwards became the first Potteries based boxer to secure a Lonsdale belt for …

Unbeaten super middleweight prospect James McGirt, Jr. (18-0, 9 KOs) squares-off with another son of a former world champion, Carlos “Baby Sugar” DeLeon, Jr. (19-2-2, 12 KOs), April 11 in the 10-round co-feature on ShoBox, live from Miccosukee Resort in Miami. “Fighting on ShoBox means everything to me,” McGirt said. …