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Boxing promoter Don King filed a defamation suit Wednesday claiming he was portrayed in a false light in a May documentary on the ESPN cable channel, and his attorney said King is entitled to damages of more than $2.5 billion (euro 1.9 billion). The lawsuit says the program accused King …

Farnell just after he became the WBU champ click for larger image © Paul Speak The last time I spoke with Anthony Farnell, the man affectionately known as The Warrior, he had recently recovered from one of the worst years of his life. Having battled back against an ostensibly career-killing …

Battle at the Boat XXXIV took place in Tacoma, Washington on Saturday 8th of January at 7:30 pm. The Emerald Casino lined up customers and the house received a large gate. Most fans waited in line for over forty minutes to get to valet parking. The indoor stadium filled to …

Golden Boy Promotions is wasting no time in getting ready for a stellar 2005 and beyond, as the company is pleased to announce the signing of Xavier D. James Sr. as a Special Advisor for Sports Programming and Strategy. James will perform various advisory functions in connection with the development …

Former three weight world champion Erik Morales may have been upstaged by Marco Antonio Barrera last November, but he doesn’t suffer embarrassment for very long. Far from spending months brooding over his loss, Morales has usurped the momentum gained by Barrera and virtually every other fighter in the featherweight division …

Long-time WBO light flyweight champion Nelson Dieppa of Puerto Rico will make his latest defense of that title against Alex Sanchez on the 29th of this month at the Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum, Bayamon in Puerto Rico. Dieppa won the title in the year 2000 but has not defended it as …

Australian middleweight star Sam “The King” Soliman will return to the ring in February in Melbourne, Australia against Miguel Julio. Soliman, who fought an incredible seven times last year has made several statements regarding his intent to challenge the top middleweight names including the likes of Bernard Hopkins and Jermain …

Despite the Tsunami devastation that ravaged his country of Thailand, WBC flyweight champion of the world Pongsaklek Wonjongkam will make the latest defense of his almost four year reign as champion against Noriyuki Komatsu in Japan. Komatsu has only one defeat on his record against nineteen wins and an almost …

Former WBO middleweight world champion Felix Sturm is set to return to the ring in March against an opponent yet to be determined at the Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle, Leverkusen, Küppersteg in his native Germany. Since losing his world title to Oscar de la Hoya last year, Sturm has gathered himself the WBO …

Any super middleweights in the world feel like trying to shock the boxing world by becoming the WBO super middleweight champion? All you need do is make yourself available to fight current champion Joe Calzaghe in his sixteenth defense of the title this February. No official release has been made …

As reported exclusively by Saddoboxing.com last week from Frank Warren himself, a Tszyu-Hatton fight would be made over the weekend or other options would be sought for Hatton. Matters seemed to have come to a head when Tszyu finally acknowledged his agreement to the fight by calling a press conference …

Emmett Linton beat Marcos Primera on Saturday night in a middleweight encounter held in Tacoma, Washington, USA. Linton edged out Primera with a unanimous ten round decision. Linton took the win and has improved his record to thirty-three wins, three losses with two draws. Little Rock, Arkansas middleweight Jermain Taylor …