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By Michael Norby: Arguably the most exciting prospect in all of boxing, unbeaten junior lightweight Yuriorkis Gamboa’s star quality continues to brighten after he out-pointed experienced Dominican Darling Jiminez on Saturday night in a one-sided ten rounder at The Buffalo Bills Hotel in Primm, Nevada, USA

By Wayne Bartlett: Gianluca Branco re captured the European light welterweight title he once possessed in 2001 after clinching a split decision points win over Colin Lynes in Turin.

Tommy Egan Promotions presents Big Time Boxing at the National Basketball Arena in Dublin on Saturday July 5th.

In stark contrast to the circulating stories of an illness Ricky Hatton extended an open invitation to the British press yesterday.

Over the past few days there have been a number of speculative stories about Ricky Hatton’s fitness and well-being.

Scot Alex Arthur’s status as an interim champion has reportedly been changed to the full-fledged WBO super featherweight champion following Joan Guzman’s decision to move up to 135 lbs.

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By Andrew Wake: If there was a title for being the most humble and friendly man in boxing then Leicester’s boxing bin man Rendall “2 Tone” Munroe would win it with ease.

Former WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison appeared before a tribunal of the British Boxing Board of Control at The Old Library in Cardiff yesterday afternoon

Boxing4Schools is looking for 4 more London based staff with an interest in boxing, to join the Boxing4Schools team.

By Nick Kelly: Imagine if Joe Louis after joining the army during the Second World War decided to give up boxing for a life as a soccer player?

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By Matthew Hurley: As Ricky Hatton winds down preparations for his May 24th comeback bout against Juan Lazcano in his hometown of Manchester the IBO junior welterweight champion suddenly found himself rid of what he deemed the nuisance of former WBC champion Junior Witter, who lost his title to Timothy Bradley by split decision this past weekend.

Reportedly, WBC president Jose Sulaiman has received a letter from unified cruiserweight champion David Haye that the “Hayemaker” would like to vacate the WBC 200 lbs. title in order to be rated and pursue the Mexican based sanctioning body’s heavyweight championship.

Scotland’s leading lightweights could be set for their very own prize-fighter style box-off.

By Craig Phillips: The Ricky Hatton “Homecoming” card on May 24 at the City of Manchester Stadium promises to be one of the biggest nights in British boxing.

On May 24, at City of Manchester Stadium, British fight fans will be treated to a boxing feast. Leading the top of the card will be Britain’s favorite son and most popular sportsman this decade, Ricky Hatton.

Check out brief fight reports from all the non televised bouts from the Junior Witter vs Timothy Bradley undercard on May 10.

By Andrew Wake: Manchester’s Irish born warrior Michael Gomez has turned up the heat ahead of his lightweight clash with Amir Khan next month by saying he’s going to knock out the 2004 Olympic silver medalist.

By Craig Phillips: Nottingham’s Carl Froch cemented his position as the No.1 contender in the super middleweight division when he easily stopped Pole Albert Ryacki in four very one sided rounds on Witter-Bradley undercard.

By Wayne Bartlett: Timothy ‘Desert Storm’ Bradley pulled off a stunning upset this Saturday after dethroning World Boxing Council light-welterweight champion Junior Witter via split points decision over twelve hard rounds.

WBC junior welterweight world champion Junior Witter and WBC No.1 contender Timothy Bradley both made the weight limit on Friday in advance of their twelve round world title match on Saturday night at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, UK, televised on Showtime in the USA and on ITV1 in the UK.

By Wayne Bartlett: In a performance beyond his boxing years, 22 year old Paul Truscott captured the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title tonight with a unanimous points decision over tough Ghanaian Osumanu Akaba.

By Craig Phillips: Paul Truscott gets his opportunity to not only pick up a Commonwealth title but become a legend of the North East on Friday night.

Sinan Samil Sam has been forced to postpone his European heavyweight championship bout against Matt Skelton due to a hand injury.

WBC No.1 super middleweight contender Carl Frock will now face Poland’s Albert Rybacki over twelve rounds at the Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, UK on the Junior Witter-Timothy Bradley card on Saturday night.

German Interim heavyweight champion Konstantin Airich will face British champion Danny Williams on May 30.

Former British heavyweight champion Michael Sprott is set to challenge undefeated Ukrainian Taras Bidenko for the WBA Intercontinental heavyweight title.

Britain’s Junior Witter defends his WBC junior-welterweight title against undefeated American Timothy Bradley at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham,England on Saturday night.

British bantamweight champion Ian Napa is set to create history by becoming the first fighter to hold the British bantamweight and super-flyweight titles.

Amir Khan’s next opponent will be former British super-featherweight champion Michael Gomez.

WBC junior welterweight champion Junior Witter insists he will be at his very best and restore some Yorkshire pride when he defends his title against American Timothy Bradley at the Trent FM Arena in Nottingham on May 10.

In a solid co-feature to this Saturday’s Junior Witter-Timothy Bradley WBC 140 lbs. world championship fight, two young undefeated British prospects are pitted against each other in the form of John Murray versus John Fewkes in a 10-round lightweight bout. Televised as part of a special Saturday night edition of the SHOWTIME boxing series, ShoBox: The New Generation, the boxing card will be promoted by Hennessy Sports.

Detroit, Michigan’s Rubin Williams is the new opponent for WBC # 1 rated 168 lbs. challenger Carl Froch, this Saturday, May 8, at Trent FM Arena in Nottingham, England. The Froch-Williams ten rounder is underneath Junior Witter’s WBC 140 lbs. title defense versus American Timothy Bradley, to be seen on Showtime.

Paul Burns is aiming to produce a punch perfect performance – and then give himself a write-up to match.

On this week’s edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman reviews the Oscar De La Hoya vs Steve Forbes this past Saturday.

By Wayne Bartlett: Rendall Munroe made a successful first defence of his European super-bantamweight title with a seven round stoppage of Frenchman Salem Bouaita at the Harvey Hadden Leisure Centre in Nottingham on Friday night.

UK news and results in brief

On the eve of his first European title defense, super bantamweight Rendall Munroe has the promise of a major world title opportunity should he be successful over his next three bouts.

Willie Limond will make the first defence of his IBO Intercontinental lightweight title against Luton’s Graham Earl at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on Saturday June 14.

IBF junior welterweight world champion Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi has shifted training camp from Vero Beach, Florida to Sicily in preparation for his May 24 rematch with Lovemore Ndou on the Ricky Hatton-Juan Lazcano card in Manchester, England.

By Andrew Wake: If exciting super-bantamweight Josh “The Outlaw” Wale doesn’t make it to the very top of boxing’s championship summit, then it will not be due to a lack of dedication.

Rejuvenated Martin Watson and Chris Black have set their sights on title glory in 2008

By Nick Kelly: It was once one of the most prominent boxing cities in the UK, if not the world, producing many great champions such as World Featherweight challenger, Nel Tarleton, his foe on several occasions Dom Volante and more recently WBC Light Heavyweight Champion John Conteh.

Following his split with trainer Oliver Harrison, undefeated lightweight Amir Khan is now reportedly looking to link up with former SecondsOut Trainer of the Year Buddy McGirt.

On this week’s edition of SecondsOut Radio, host
Eddie Goldman reviews the latest show of the popular
local boxing series, Punchin’ at the Paradise

IBF/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has dismissed sharing the ring with undisputed world cruiserweight champion David Haye any time soon.

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Hot off his impressive tenth round TKO over previously undefeated Eric Fields on April 12, the UK’s and newly crowned WBO NABO cruiserweight titlist Ola Afolabi has signed a promotional contract with Duva Boxing. Reportedly the deal was struck last night with Dino Duva in Los Angeles.

New European super bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe returns to the ring at the Harvey Hadden LC in Nottingham on May 2, following his shock in outpointing Spanish strongman Kiko Martinez in March.

At the start of 2008 Welsh boxing hero Joe Calzaghe announced he would have just two more fights before hanging up his gloves following an incredible 15 year career that has seen him so far unbeaten in 45 fights.

The grandsons of two of the most famous figures in Scottish boxing history are set to go into partnership next month – 75 years after their grandfathers first linked up.

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On this week’s edition of SecondsOut Radio, host Eddie Goldman begins by reviewing the controversial split decision win by Joe Calzaghe over Bernard Hopkins this past Saturday night

By: Mike Sloan in Las Vegas: Joe Calzaghe figured his light heavyweight title fight with Bernard Hopkins would be difficult. He probably expected it to get ugly and dirty, too. Calzaghe didn’t expect it to be that tough, that ugly and at times, that dirty.

Audley Harrison made a winning return to the ring after more than 14 months out with a fifth round stoppage win against Jason Barnett.

Nathan Cleverly scored a unanimous eight round points win over Antonio Baker at the Thomas And Mack Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

By Dean Tinklin: Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins are incredibly gifted fighters, but in very different ways.

Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe both made the light heavyweight limit on Friday afternoon at the official weigh-in for their super fight to be held this Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, USA.

In this week’s edition of Ask The Editor (ATE), we preview the big Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe fight and all agree that the winner of Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito deserves a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. We question whether ‘Money’ Mayweather will actually take that fight, consider where his career is headed and ask what happened to Clinton Woods against Antonio Tarver? To our Editor’s dismay, we talk more about why a Ricky Hatton-Junior Witter fight is not happening, ask who are the best

By Wayne Bartlett: Ryan Rhodes turned in a vintage performance at the York Hall Friday night to dethrone British light middleweight champion Gary Woolcombe with a stunning ninth round knockout.

It is the type of special fight that doesn’t happen all the time in boxing, undisputed world champion facing undisputed world champion, but that hasn’t stopped SecondsOut’s team of fearless writers from making their confident picks for Saturday night’s “Battle of the Planet” between light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins and super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, USA televised on HBO World Championship Boxing in the USA and Setanta Sports in the UK

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By Andrew Wake: Sheffield stylist Ryan Rhodes is extremely confident about the prospect of recapturing the British light-middleweight title.

So far all the publicity leading up to Saturday night’s light-heavyweight ’Super Fight’ has predominantly been about Bernard Hopkins and Joe Calzaghe.

Knockout Entertainment Ltd, the owner of SecondsOut.com, the world’s leading boxing portal, announces a partnership with YouTube.com. The agreement reached between the two heavyweight contenders ends the battle over the contentious issues of rights infringement, rights control, and rights management.

Cruiserweight world champion David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye has amicably severed ties with promoter Frank Maloney, ending a successful two-year promotional relationship.

By Albert Howell in Las Vegas: The final press conference for the Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe mega-fight dubbed “Battle of the Planet” took place on Wednesday at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Audley Harrison’s comeback opponent on this Saturday’s (April 19) Calzaghe-Hopkins undercard in Las Vegas is American Ed Perry. The scheduled six round heavyweight bout will be Harrison’s first fight since being stopped in three rounds by Michael Sprott 16 months ago.

Bernard Hopkins has warned Joe Calzaghe that he is in for a very painful night when the pair clash at the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

Joe Calzaghe believes ’Saint’ Bernard Hopkins’ bark is much bigger than his bite.

By Andrew Wake: What do you do when someone like John Conteh tells you a fighter is a dead cert to win a world title? I’ll tell you what you do – you take notice.

By Andrew Wake: One of boxing’s most prominent figures will retire from the ring at the end of this year. No, I’m not referring to Joe Calzaghe or even his 43 year old foe Bernard Hopkins for that matter, the man I refer to is none other than star class referee Mickey Vann.

Frank Maloney promotes at the Harvey Hadden leisure centre in Nottingham on May 2. The card is headed by the clash between European super-bantamweight champion Rendall Monroe and France’s Salem Bouaita.

Promoter Frank Maloney has once again stolen the march on his rivals by signing flyweight Najah Ali, the UK’s first professional Iraqi boxer.

At the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington, a recently inactive Ola Afolabi overcame an early points deficit to stop Eric Fields at 0:55 of the tenth and final round to win the vacant NABO cruiserweight title.

Irishman Bernard Dunne scored a shut out 10 round decision win over former world titleholder Felix Machado at the Breaffy House Resort, in Castlebar, Ireland on Saturday night(April 12).

Despite knocking down Marcus Magee twice, Danny Williams looked decidedly sluggish over six rounds in Tampa, Florida on Saturday night.

“Dynamite” Dave Price, Salisbury PC c, Liverpool, became an Olympian, with a business like display of boxing, when he defeated 2006 World Junior Champion, Romanian, Cristian Ciocan, in Athens on Friday night.