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LAS VEGAS (Mar. 18, 2010) – Living legend and 5-time world heavyweight champion, Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield, challenges World Boxing Federation heavyweight title-holder Frans “The White Buffalo” Botha in the 12-round main event April 10, headlining “The Legend Returns” pay-per-view event, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

By Peter Lerner: This week we talk to respected referee Adrio Zannoni about which fighters impressed on last week’s Galassi undercard, we have a preview of the bill in Florence this Friday, and we have a quick look forward to some of next week’s action.

Jerry Glick reporting: With the rematch between 41 year old Roy Jones Jr. and 45 year old Bernard Hopkins that took seventeen years to happen now only two and a half weeks away it was the trainers turn to face the tough questions of the media.

By Tri Nguyen: This Saturday’s fight at the Du Burns Arena in Baltimore, MD will feature two Mid-Atlantic Middleweight up and comers fighting for respect.

By Derek Gionta: Throughout the United States, the month of March is known as March Madness, a time where 65 of the best college basketball teams play for the coveted NCAA National Championship. In this case, Deandre “The Bull” Latimore, of St. Louis, MO, will have his own version of March Madness and will enter a Final Four, if you will, with three other junior middleweights with the possible end result and goal of winning a world title.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (Mar. 17, 2010) – Three-division world champion Erik “El Terrible” Morales, the last opponent to defeat Manny Pacquiao, returns from a 2 1/2-year layoff March 27 to headline “The Champion Returns” pay-per-view event, live from Monterrey, Mexico.

By Andrew Wake: Joan Guzman is promising a return to his best form when he reengages with South Africa’s Ali Funeka for the vacant IBF lightweight title in Las Vegas next Saturday (March 27)

Rising 140 lbs. prospect & 2008 US Olympic team alternate Danny O’Connor takes on Franklin Gonzalez, and super middleweight Joe McCreedy battles Dhafir Smith, this Friday, March 19, at the Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, RI – presented by CES.

Jerry Glick reporting: Undefeated World Boxing Council (WBC) International heavyweight champion and former Cuban Olympic gold medalist, Odlanier Solis, 15-0 (11 KOs), talked to the media about his upcoming fight with former world title challenger, Carl Drummond, 26-2 (20 KOs), via a teleconference call on Wednesday.

‘Fast’ Eddie chambers believes speed will be the key factor when he attempts to wrest the IBF and WBO heavyweight crowns away from Wladimir Klitschko at the Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany on Saturday (March 20).

An opponent for Audley Harrison’s latest clash will be announced in the next 24 hours.

Martin Lindsey will be heading towards a European featherweight title fight if he successfully defends his British crown against Jamie Arthur on Friday night.

In today’s edition of Ask The Editor (ATE), we delve deeper into the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr non-fight, consider Money’s alternate match with Shane Mosley and try to solve what it all means. We consider some future fights for Edwin Valero at junior welterweight, give the Super Six more praise, complain more about the Bernard Hopkins-Roy Jones Jr rematch and more.

By Andrew Wake: Revenge is the objective for Leeds light-welterweight prospect Adil Anwar when he steps into the ring at Elland Road in his home city on Saturday March 27.

By Peter Lerner: The highly-anticipated dual match between Ireland and Italy came to a premature end on Sunday evening with only five of the 12 bouts having been completed.

Carl Froch, as expected, is in a super confident mood ahead of his WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler in Herning, Denmark on April 24.

The April 24 Super Six Super-middleweight tournament clash between Andre Ward and Allan Green has been postponed after Ward suffered a recurring knee injury forced him to cut back on training.

With both boxers coming off unexpected knockout losses in their last matches, Shane Cameron and John Hopoate face off in Melbourne at the Flemington Racecourse on Thursday night 18th March, headlining a Barry Michael promotion.

By Derek Bonnett: Former IBF Super Bantamweight champion, Steve Molitor, of Ontario, Canada , endured a great setback in November 2008. Not only did he fail to defeat his greatest challenge in Celestino Caballero, but he lost his unbeaten record via lopsided fourth round TKO.

Luton’s popular former British and Commonwealth lightweight champion Graham Earl has announced his retirement.

Last Friday Night’s championship boxing event from Prague, Czech Republic is now showing on demand on Secondsouttv.com. Unbeaten Belarussian prospect Sergey Rabchenko faces the normally durable Germany-based Italian veteran Pietro d’Alessio while former world title challenger defended his national middleweight title against former national lightweight champ Ionut Trandafir Ilie.

Jamie Arthur is being pushed to the limit by his trainer - and couldn’t be happier.The 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medallist is confident of landing his first major professional title when he challenges for Martin Lindsay’s British featherweight crown at Leigh Sports Village on Friday March 19.

By Andrew Wake: Sheffield’s light-middleweight prospect Liam “Cannonball” Cameron has been getting an education in boxing from one of his city’s most famous sons.

In preparation for his April 24 fight against Chris Arreola, former IBF cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek, is in Houston, training with Ronnie Shields.

By Juan Barajas: On April 17 Middleweight Champion Kelly “The Ghost” Pavlik defends his WBC/ (WBO and Ring middleweight titles against WBC junior middleweight Champion Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Comment by Paul Upham: While others today will focus on the ring action of Manny Pacquiao’s dominate performance in beating the extremely tough Joshua Clottey, I want to record the most important knockout win of the night - boxing’s triumph over its many critics. The crowd of 50,994 people at the US$1.2 billion Dallas Cowboys Stadium, for a boxing match not ever considered the best match they could be made this year, was an impressive performance. Titled “The Event”, by co-promoters Bob Arum

Some of the regions top boxers are ready to fight for the British masters light heavyweight title taking place at Don Valley Stadium.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (March 14, 2010) – “Irish” Joey McCreedy is back being trained by “Irish” Micky Ward and Ward’s brother, Dicky Eklund, who worked with fellow Lowell (MA) resident McCreedy back when McCreedy was an amateur boxer and for McCreedy’s first six pro fights.

American heavyweight “Fast Eddie” Chambers arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany with his team today, a week before his scheduled World title bout against WBO/IBF Heavyweight Champion Wladimir Klitschko.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ (March 14, 2010) – World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK returns to his old haunt, Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, on Saturday, April 17, to defend his titles against World Boxing Council (WBC) super welterweight champion SERGIO “Maravilla” MARTINEZ. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with DiBella Entertainment.

WBO cruiserweight king Marco ’Captain’ Huck scored an impressive third round tko win over Adam ‘Swamp Donkey’ Richards at the Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin, Saturday night.

By Michael Norby: For over two years now, boxing’s premier global superstar and WBO welterweight world champion Manny Pacquiao, has been feeding on legitimate 140 and 147lbers with relative ease. The Filipino continued that domination on Saturday night with a mightily impressive points victory over the usually rugged Ghanaian Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA.

By Michael Norby: In the main preliminary bout on the Pacquiao vs. Clottey HBO pay-per-view broadcast, skilled Mexican Humberto Soto picked up the vacant WBC lightweight world title with a unanimous decision victory over former champion David Diaz at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USA.

The best boxer in the world pound for pound faces a willing adversary who is taller, tough and seemingly stronger, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday’s WBO welterweight boxing world title fight between superstar Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey at Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, televised in the USA on HBO Pay-Per-View.

Ireland’s Paul Hyland out-pointed Daivd Chianella over 12 round Napoli, Campania, Italy to win the vacant EBU-EU super bantamweight title on Friday night.

By Teddy Stenmark: Word out of Denmark is that Allan Vester (32), scheduled to take on former veteran superstar, Hector “Macho” Camacho in Kjellerup, Denmark March 26th has been sidelined with a back injury

Tony Grano gained revenge for his only loss as a pro Frday night against Mark Brown at the sold-out Fox Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

Former IBF lightweight champion Paul Spadafora, 44-0-1-(18), scored an eighth round TKO win over Ivan Fiorletta, 24-6-2-(7) at War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Friday .

Former WBC heavyweight world champion Samuel Peter punched his way into pole position for another title shot with a second round stoppage of Dominican Nagy Aguilera on Friday night at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Grapevine, Texas, USA.

By Wayne Bartlett: Paul Smith fought through a mask of blood for twelve rounds tonight to retain his British super middleweight title via a well deserved unanimous points decision over fierce rival Tony Dodson.

On April 2, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing returns to the Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, CT with what promises to be yet another action packed night of boxing.

Amir Khan’s new promoter Golden Boy Promotions plan to match their WBA junior-welterweight champ with both Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr within the next 18 months.

The big boys have weighed-in for tonight’s heavyweight rematch as Tony Grano and Mark Brown “Brace For Impact” in a scheduled ten rounder at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT, presented by CES.

By Peter Lerner: Tonight Dublin hosts the first of two matches between Ireland and Italy at senior level (the second will be held in Belfast on Sunday).

Promoter Bob Arum and Jerry Jones talk about this weekend’s big fight between pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao and New York based Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas on Saturday night.

Unbeaten middleweight boxing sensation, “Chairman of the Board” Michael Oliveira has been officially selected as the winner of the Brazilian International Press Award’s 2009 Athlete of the Year Award.

Check out all the latest champion news supplied by the British Boxing Board of Control.

By Andrew Wake: Former WBC super-middleweight champion Robin Reid returns to the ring this weekend when he takes on ex-England International footballer Lee Sharpe for charity.

By Peter Lerner: This week in Italian Boxing Update we will be looking forward to the first – and hopefully not the last – world title fight in Italy this year and we have a brief round up of the latest news.

Jersey City, NJ (March 11, 2010) - Lightweight prospect Danny "Little Mac" McDermott will face his toughest test to date when he squares off against unbeaten Brian Miller on Thursday, March 25 at Schuetzen Park in North Bergen, NJ. The eight-round main event will be contested for the NABC lightweight title, headlining Pound for Pound Promotions’ "March Badness" card.