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By Andrew Wake: Paul McCloskey’s fans claimed their man was ‘cheated not defeated’ following his world title loss to Amir Khan last year and after seeing the Dungiven southpaw controversially halted by DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley, they’ll surely be saying the same thing once again.
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Former 154 lbs. contender Luis Resto, best known for his involvement in the Billy Collins Jr. glove tampering scandal, has been officially denied a license as a Boxing Second by the New York State Athletic Commission.
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By Jason Pribilla: While the knockout(Garrett Wilson vs Andres Taylor) provided fans with a dramatic conclusion to their evening (in Atlantic City), and will no doubt raise Wilson’s profile, I question if it was necessary
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By Jason Pribila: On an evening when ringside judges again proved that the action that takes place in the ring does not necessarily translate to the scorecards, cruiserweight Garrett Wilson dismissed the jury and scored a chilling knockout over Andres Taylor
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Check out all the latest champion boxing from the British Boxing Board of Control
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By Ray Kilgore: At about 5:30 p.m. on Saturday night at the Wessman Arena in Superior, Wisconsin, I ran into Frances Green who sat at a table not too far from where her husband, heavyweight boxer, Aaron Green was set to perform in little over an hour against Travis Fulton,
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By Anson Wainwright: Malawi, dubbed “The Warm Heart of Africa” (where life expectancy in the African republic is just 50 years old), is landlocked Southeast of the continent and is home to over 15,000,000 people.
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As expected Monday’s press conference at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles between Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios and WBA interim lightweight champion Richard ‘El Tigre” Abril became a little heated.
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New Legend Boxing and Old World Boxing stage a show at The Cordon Bleu, located at 96-01 Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven, Queens, on the April 21.
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Former WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito is rumoured to be returning to the ring for two fights
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Californian based heavyweight Chris Arreola believes he will be world champion by the end of 2012
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Former multi weight world champion James Toney and Bobby Gunn weighed in Friday ahead of their IBA heavyweight title fight at Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi on Satueday.
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Former world champion boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho is facing a felony count of child abuse.
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Former World Lightweight Champion Brandon Rios and Top-10 world-rated contenders Mike Albarado, Mauricio Herrera and Mercito Gesta held media workouts today at a jammed Fortune Gym in Los Angeles.
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Due to Tony Conquest and Michael Walsh both being unfit to box, the first instalment of Queensberry Promotions’ new concept of show, BoxAcademy, will be moved from its original date of April 12th.
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The “Captain” returns to the cruiserweight division. It will be the ninth time that Marco Huck will put his WBO title on the line when he steps into the ring on May 5.
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Dave Coldwell’s “Big Bang” that hits Liverpool’s Echo Arena on April 13th is the beginning of a bumper eight days showcasing a whole host of Merseyside sporting talent.
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Former heavyweight title challenger Kevin ‘Kingpin’ Johnson scored a ninth round stoppage win over Alex Leapai on Sunday afternoon at Doomben Racecourse in Ascot, Queensland, Australia.
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South African boxer Nkosinathi Joyi impressively retained his IBF minimumweight title at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa on Friday night.
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WBC International Silver heavyweight champion Manuel Charr moved a step closer to the world heavyweight title at the Martim Hotel in Cologne, Germany on Friday night when he defeated Taras Bidenko via 12 round unanimous decision.
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Roberto Vasquez won a unanimous 11 round decision over Mario Briones to win the vacant WBA Fedelatin super bantamweight title at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama on Friday.
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Piotr Wilczewksi is the last obstacle between Arthur Abraham and another world title shot.
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Boxing writer and historian Bert Randolph Sugar died on Sunday afternoon in Chappaqua, N.Y., after a long battle with lung cancer.
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SecondsOut’s Ciaran Gibbons talks exclusively to IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute and challenger Carl Froch ahead of their clash in Nottingham on May 26.
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By Ryan Waugh in London: Nathan Cleverly will look to continue his unblemished record of 24 wins when he takes on German based Serbian boxer Robin Krasniqi at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28th April.
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Irish middleweight Andy Lee is seeking a world title shot against WBC Middleweight Champion, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on June 16 at the Sun Bowl, El Paso, Texas.
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Promoter Frank Warren will stage the first world title show at the Royal Albert Hall in over a decade when British star Nathan Cleverly headlines the legendary venue on Saturday 28th April.
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Martin Murray has been forced to withdraw from his WBC middleweight title challenge against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr because he cannot obtain a visa in time that would allow him to enter the United States.
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By Clive Bernath: On May 26 two of boxing’s true professionals will collide at the Capital FM Arena in middle England when unbeaten French Canadian Lucian Bute defends his IBF super-middleweight title against local hero Carl Froch.
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Matchroom Sport can confirm that Carl Froch’s IBF super middleweight World title fight with Lucian Bute will take place at the Capital FM Arena Nottingham on May 26.
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Despite Dereck Chisora being banned indefinitely by the British Boxing Board of Control after his failed world heavyweight title bid against Vitali Klitschko last month the 28 year-old says he still harbours a dream of becoming world champion.
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Team Kovalev blames Square Ring for a verbally agreed upon title fight between light heavyweights Sergey Kovalev and Ismayl Sillakh falling apart due to a contractual dispute.
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By Ryan Waugh: Lamont Peterson arrived in London this week to promote his rematch as the proud WBA and IBF light welterweight Champion.
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Former undisputed world middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik of Youngstown, Ohio returns to the ring at the Alamodome on Saturday, March 31.
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Carlos Gomez recently had the opportunity to speak with Golden Boy Promotions Nicaraguan-American, un-defeated prospect and WBC, Youth Inter-Continental Super Bantamweight Champion Randy “El Matador” Caballero.
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By registering with bookmakers Paddy Power this weekend you can get a free £50 bet.
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Carl Froch’s IBF World super middleweight title challenge against Lucian Bute in May could be heading outdoors after a massive response from the public has led promoter Eddie Hearn to secure a bigger venue.
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Despite not having fought for over a year and being 38 years-old Mexican Boxing legend Marco Antonio Barrera desperately wants a rematch with British light-welterweight Amir Khan.
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After long talks with Hall of Fame Promoter Wilfried Sauerland, coach Ulli Wegner, Team Sauerland General Manager Chris Meyer and sports director Hagen Doering, Huck has made the decision to continue at cruiserweight, where he holds the WBO title.
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Former world champions Tomás Rojas and Raúl García both won their respective bouts at the Auditorio Municipal in Tijuana on Saturday night.
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Three-weight world champion Fernando Montiel (47-4-2, 37 KOs) scored a ninth round knockout win over Indonesian Angky Angkota (25-7, 14 KOs) in Mazatlan, Mexico on Saturday night.
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Leading up to the title world title defense of Wladimir Klitschko against Jean-Marc Mormeck, Ola Afolabi is eager to take the next step in his career.
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Heavyweight Víctor Bisbal scored a third round tko win over former world cruiserweight champion Robert Daniels at the Coliseo Angel “Cholo” Espada in Salinas, Puerto Rico on Friday night.
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Former World Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight Champion Tomasz Adamek and trainer Roger Bloodworth spoke to the media following an open workout at the World Boxing and Fitness Center in Jersey City, New Jersey on Thursday.
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Undefeated Junior Welterweight Vernon Paris is already in the best shape of his career and looking forward to his big opportunity against Zab Judah on March 24th
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Arthur Abraham (33-3, 27 KOs) will take on Piotr Wilczewski (30-2, 10 KOs) at the Sparkassen-Arena in Kiel on March 31.
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Saturday night at the Scottrade Center, St Louis, Missouri Argentine tough guy Marcos Maidana takes on American Devon Alexander in a welterweight clash while Adrien Broner defends his WBO super-featherweight crown against Eloy Perez..
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Marcos Maidana, Devon Alexander, Adrien Broner and Eloy Perez weighed in Friday ahead of their respective showdowns at the Scottrade Center, St Louis, Missouri Saturday night.
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IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham and Yoan Pablo Hernandez have weighed in ahead of their rematch at the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt Germany tomorrow night.
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Cruiserweights Joell Godfrey and Henry Namauu will battle in a ten round main event tonight (Jan. 21) at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma,WA. The event is presented by Halquist Productions.
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Freddie Roach is boxing’s hottest trainer. Helping to mold the success of world champions such as Manny Pacquiao and Amir Khan serves as a testament to his mighty talents. On Freddie Roach, a six-part documentary series from director Peter Berg, provides viewers an unrestricted look into the contemporary life of one of sports’ most sought after men and amply reveals that being Freddie Roach is hardly achieved on aptitude alone. Episode #1, “Body Blow,” debuts tonight (Jan. 20) on HBO.
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Nathan Cleverly’s homecoming title defence on February 25th will see him take on American Tommy Karpency.
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Saul Alvarez and Kermit Cintron both scaled bang on the 154lbs limit ahead of Saturday’s WBC light middleweight title fight in Mexico City.
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Undefeated Canadian super featherweight Logan Cotton McGuinness has been named the North American Boxing Association ("NABA") 2011 Fighter of the Year.
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Pound for pound king and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has revealed that talks have begun to fight Floyd Mayweather Jnr, in a massive Pay Per View boxing event on May 5, 2011.
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All the hard work is done and Adrian Broner is ready to impress his home town boxing fans when he faces Vicente Martin Rodriguez for the vacant WBO super-featherweight title at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio on Saturday(Nov 26) night.
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Welterweight contender Mike Jones, who faces Sebastian Lujan in an IBF world title eliminator on December 3, has added another strength and conditioning coach to his team.
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By Clive Bernath: Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron may be the underdog when he challenges champion Saul Alvarez in Mexico City on Saturday night but the 32 year-old Puerto Rican believes he is the better and more experienced boxer of the two.
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Lamont Peterson is in a confident mood and believes speed and timing will see him to victory when he challenges Amir Khan for the WBA light welterweight crown in Washington on December 10.
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Just one month out from the biggest fight of his life and his first in the United States, Anselmo Moreno and his wife Rouss Laguna Moreno found out they are expecting twins.
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As part of the successful “Kids Drug Free”, programme former world champions Ivan “Iron Boy” Calderon and Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. visit the Casa Laura Vicuña, a nonprofit institution at the Barriada Morales in Caguas on Tuesday.
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Undefeated IBF No. 5-ranked junior welterweight Vernon “Ice Man” Paris from Detroit, today signed a promotional agreement with Don King.
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"World Dominance" features the top two women’s boxers in the world, American favorite Holly Holm and French knockout specialist Anne Sophie Mathis.
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NBC Sports Group announced today the formation of NBC Sports Network Fight Night.
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By Ron Valderrama: The Antonio Margarito saga continues as an alternate venue is sought for Cotto-Margarito II.
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WBA super middleweight champ Andre Ward (24-0, 13 KOs), trainer Virgil Hunter, and promoter Dan Goossen hosted members of the media at King’s Gym in Oakland, CA on Friday
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Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell will take the biggest step of his thus far unconventional professional boxing career on Saturday, Dec. 10 against Timur Ibragimov
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WBA and IBF light-welterweight champion Amir Khan has scooped the 2011 British Boxer of the Year award at the British Boxing Board of Control annual dinner on Sunday.
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Jerry Glick reporting: He played Sonny Liston opposite Will Smith in “Ali” on the big screen; he was in "Public Enemies" starring with Johnny Depp; he was in "State Property 2" with Damon Dash; he has appeared on television on Saturday Night Live; he did "Sons of Anarchy." He has played Othello, The Moor of Venice, and he has written for HBO and Bert Sugar’s “Fight Game.” Michael Bentt, former WBO Heavyweight Champion, has added to his boxing prowess by becoming a man of the arts.
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Roy Jones Jr. in association with TNT Promotions presents "Thanksgiving
Feast of Fists" on Wednesday Night November 23rd at Stage AE on
Pittsburgh’s North Shore.
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By Jason Pribila: Hall of Fame promoter J. Russell Peltz brought his brand of boxing back to Bally’s Atlantic City on Saturday Night.
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Junior welterweight Roberto Ortiz scored a sixth round knockout win over veteran Carlos Urias at the Hotel Fairmont Princess in Acapulco, Mexico on Saturday.
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Mexican José “Torito” Rodriguez won a very tough 12 round split decision win over Nethra Sasiprapa to win the vacant WBA interim light flyweight title in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico on Saturday.
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By Peter Lim: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pinned Peter Manfredo Jr. against the ropes and rained down a non-stop flurry of punches, prompting referee Lawrence Cole to jump in and end the contest at 1:52 of the fifth round
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super bantamweight Victor “Vikingo” Terrazas scored a massive upset on Saturday when he defeated former three division world champion Fernando “Kochulito” Montiel in a clash for the vacant WBC Silver super bantamweight title.
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Antonio Margarito will be examined by an ophthalmologist appointed by the New York State Athletic Commission today(Saturday) to decide if he can face Miguel Cotto in New York on December 3.
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“Dangerous” Dannie Williams scored his 16th stoppage win from 21 fights at the Amerister Casino in Saint Charles, Missouri, USA on Friday night.
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Unbeaten light-middleweight prospect Eddie Gomez from the Bronx,New York scored a fifth round stoppage win over Cuban Antonio Infante at the Complejo Deportivo Nilmarie Santini in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Friday night.
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Saturday night at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas Julio Cesar Chavez Jr makes the first defence of his WBC middleweight title against ‘The Pride Of Providence’ Peter Manfredo Jr. As usual our brave army of writers once again put their reputations on the line to pick a winner.
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Saturday night from Ballys Casino in Atlantic City, Garrett Wilson will make the first defense of the USBA Cruiserweight championship against Chuck Mussachio in a bout scheduled for 12 rounds.
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So close to winning a world title in his last bout, Argenis Mendez will look to get back in the front of the contender line when he takes on Jose Palma in a 10 round bout on Saturday.
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By Peter Lim: Given their respective aggressive modes of combat, Peter Manfredo, Jr. anticipates a grueling, action-packed battle when he squares off against Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. for Chavez’ WBC middleweight title at the Reliant Arena in Houston, TX, this Saturday.
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According to The New York Daily News the eagerly awaited rematch between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, scheduled for Madison Square Garden on December 3 is in Jeopardy.
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HBO and filmmaker Peter Berg will team up for the innovative new primetime series On Freddie Roach
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Cancer survivor and unbeaten, top-ranked super middleweight Anthony Dirrell of Flint, Mich., will face fellow world-ranked southpaw Renan St-Juste of Canada, in the 12-round main event from the Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, Calif on December 2.
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IBF and WBC Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares, WBA Bantamweight Super Champ Anselmo Moreno, Two-weight titleholder Vic Darchinyan and Hall of Fame Promoter Don King held a media conference call on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming multi title card at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif on December 3.
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Victor Lupo finally gets his well deserved title shot on December 17 against former world title challenger Antonin Decarie at Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City.
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The maturation process for undefeated 21-year-old middleweight Michael Oliveira spiked last Friday night after his impressive eighth-round win against veteran Xavier "The X-Man" Tolliver.
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This Saturday night at The Paramount Theater in Huntington, New York, three undefeated fighters top the undercard on Boxeo Azteca that will be promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing.
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Heavyweight Francois Botha is beaming with confidence ahead of his attempt to reclaim his WBF title against American Michael Grant in the headliner of Showpony Promotions “Urban War” extravaganza at the Monte Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday (Nov 19).
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Bristol super-flyweight Lee Haskins is targeting a world title shot against WBC champion Suriyan Por Chokchai.
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Respected cutman Joe Souza died at his home in San Antonio on Monday after losing his battle with prostate cancer at the age of 77.
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Last weekend’s third showdown between pound for pound king Manny Pacquiao and bitter rival, Juan Manuel Marquez was a huge success in Las Vegas, according to Keith Kizer of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
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In This Corner’s James ‘Smitty’ Smith talks exclusively to Juan Manuel Marquez and Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach following their third controversial clash at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday night.
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You don’t see or hear of many top fighters calling out the name of Middleweight Champion Sergio "Maravilla" Martinez.
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Joe Frazier was laid to rest on Monday after having passed away on November 7 at age 67. Undefeated welterweight Mike Jones, who was trained by Frazier, reflects on his time with Smokin’ Joe.
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The ultimate confrontation - "World Dominance" - on December 2 between the top two women boxers in the world, Holly Holm and Anne Sophie Mathis promises to give women’s boxing a much needed boost.
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By John Lumpkin: Watching Max Kellerman’s Face Off promo featuring Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito made it clear that Cotto sincerely believes that Margarito cheated in their first bout.
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After months of negotiating, Ustream.TV will again throw its hat in the boxing ring on Dec. 10 in Atlanta, GA.
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By Derek Bonnett: Boxing fans are never going to agree on the controversial matters which plague the sport of boxing. Hopkins was faking. Dawson pushed him down. Dawson should win.
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