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Former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion and Mike Tyson conqueror Danny Williams is under severe fire after his last moment pull-out this past weekend. Williams was supposed to fight current British, Commonwealth and WBU heavyweight titlist Matt Skelton in a hugely significant domestic clash, but Williams cancelled his appearance right …

Bernard Hopkins cast himself as the people’s champion, a proclamation that was perhaps nevermore poignant than in the fight’s preceding weeks as he shared promotional duties with boxing golden boys Oscar de la Hoya and Jermain Taylor, fighters bred for stardom, walking a designated route upon which they would make …

Eastman, Magee and McCullough all come up short. A certain aging American middleweight champion was not the only fighter to be unlucky this weekend as three British fighters found themselves in the losing column after giving their all in title fights. Two went down the tubes in Germany while a …

The plot thickened surrounding Don King’s Global Glory pay-per-view event at the United Center on Aug. 13 after the World Boxing Council ruled Friday that the winner of the card’s main event—Hasim “The Rock” Rahman vs. Monte “Two Gunz” Barrett—will next face Vitali Klitschko in a WBC heavyweight title match. …

Promoter Don King has announced that former World Boxing Council and World Boxing Association welterweight champion Ricardo “El Matador” Maryorga will face former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Michelle Piccirillo for the WBC super welterweight championship as part of “Global Glory” at the United Center on Aug. 13. The colorful …

Ok fight fans, I hope you have recovered from the weekend’s fight action because SaddoBoxing definitely does not rest and the “TKO Boxing Show” goes ahead with full steam. This week, we’re taking a look at the main event card action. Hopkins-Taylor caused such controversy over the weekend and we …

World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko would like to make one thing perfectly clear: He has always wanted to fight Hasim Rahman. “I read things, but I do not believe what I am reading,” Klitschko said. “Three months ago (April 20), a press release was sent out on my …

National Geographic once captured an infant crane falling into piranha-infested waters somewhere in South America. That is the feeling I got from the morning boxing chat forums. Did people really need to call Bernard Hopkins overrated that many times? Did people have to dismiss Jermain Taylor as predictable and unimaginative? …

“I am looking forward to a tough fight this Saturday and if all goes well, I will also be trying for two more fights after this one in August.” Jose also said: “Some time after this summer I would like to go up against one of my amateur rivals like …

It’s a special edition of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING when HBO Sports presents the exclusive delay broadcast of the showdown for the undisputed world middleweight title: BERNARD HOPKINS VS. JERMAIN TAYLOR, airing SATURDAY, JULY 23 at 10:15 P.M. ET/PT, on HBO. The HBO Sports broadcast team, which was ringside for the …

Ahmed “Hollywood” Kaddour, who recently appeared on “The Contender,” will become the first contestant from the NBC reality series to return to boxing when he takes on former West Virginia State Champion Maxell Taylor in the eight-round junior middleweight co-feature Friday, July 22, 2005, on “ShoBox: The New Generation.” In …

If you are anti-Hopkins, this was the fight for you; if you are a hardcore Hopkins fan, then this fight left you yelling at the television screen. Now, if you are a boxing fan who loves the sport for the overall content of warriors battling until the end, you can …