By Mikko Salo: In the aftermath of the Wladimir Klitschko vs David Haye megafight, one important aspect of the outcome has been given a fairly small amount of attention. Finally, after several years of suffering through utter disorganization in the heavyweight division, we have Undisputed Heavyweight Champions, who hold The Ring Magazine Championship and all the alphabet titles at the same time: The Klitschko Brothers.

Team Sauerland and SES Boxing are delighted to announce that WBO Super Middleweight Champion Robert Stieglitz will make his mandatory defence against Mikkel Kessler at Copenhagen´s PARKEN Stadium on November 5.

Former two time world lightweight champion Michael Katsidis (28-4, 23 KOs) scored a third round knockout win over Michael Lozada (38-9-1, 30 KOs) on Saturday.

Cuban heavywieght Odlanier Solis (17-1) is set to return to action on October 14th in Germany.

Nkululeko Mhlongo won the vacant South African junior middleweight title when he stopped Page Tshesane in the eighth round at the Mhuluzi Extension 7 Community Hall in Mpumalanga, South Africa on Saturday night.

WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has temporarily cut training for his September 10 title defence against Tomasz Adamek to take part in a “battle for democratic values” following the arrest of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.

WBC Silver lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco will face Jorge Linares on the undercard of Bernard Hopkins’s first WBC light-heavyweight title defence against Chad Dawson on October 15.

Former WBA super-bantamweight champion Ryol Li Lee 18-2-1, 9 KOs), scored a fifth round stoppage win over Rikiya Fukahara In Tokyo, Japan on Saturday.

Double world title challenger Tomonobu Shimizu (18-3-1, 9 KOs),will have his third crack at the WBA super-fly weight title on August 31 when he faces Mexican Hugo Cazares (35-6-2, 25 KOs) in Tokyo, Japan,

Erik “El Terrible” Morales believes he can re-find the spark that made him a Mexican boxing legend when he takes on tough Argentine puncher Lucas Matthysse next month.

Anselmo Moreno has an signed exclusive, multi-fight promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions.

Promoter Rodney Berman has announced that the WBC is once again opening its doors to South African fighters.

For the past year, rugged Romanian welterweight Victor Lupo has unsuccessfully stalked undefeated World Boxing Council International Welterweight Champion Phil “The Italian Sensation” Lo Greco.

German-based Armenian Arthur Abraham has announced he intends to return back to the middleweight division and has his sights set on an all-German super fight with WBA champion Felix Stum.

By Derek Bonnett: For Nkosinathi "Mabere" Joyi, the first half of 2011 passed anticlimactically. In his lone appearance on January 29, Joyi’s first defense of his IBF minimumweight title ended in a no-contest after an unintentional clash of heads caused a cut to the right side of the Katsunari Takayama’s head.

IBF and WBA champion Amir Khan has said that he would jump at chance to face Mexican legend Erik Morales.

David Tua says he will be ready for anything when he faces Monte Barrett in a rematch at the TelstraClear Pacific Centre in Manukau City, New Zealand on August 13.

Godfrey Nzimande retained his South African super featherweight title after stopping Ayanda Yaphi in the eighth round at the Orient Theatre in East London on Sunday evening.

Pornsawan Porpramuk ripped the WBA minimumweight title from Indonesian veteran Muhammed Rachman at the Indosiar Studio in Jakarta on Saturday but controversy surrounded the decision.

By Sean Wippert at ringside in Las Vegas: Colombian puncher Edison Miranda let himself down when several low blows cost him his fight with Cuba’s Yordanis “King Carney” Despaige.

By Adam Santarossa at ringside: Billy Dib is the new IBF Featherweight Champion after defeating Jorge Lacierva by unanimous decision to win the vacant title at the Olympic Park Sports Centre, Homebush, Australia on Friday evening.

Alexander Povetkin and Ruslan Chagaev today participated in an international press conference in Erfurt, Germany, one month ahead of their WBA Heavyweight Title fight.

This Saturday night in Atlanta middleweight boxer Hector Camacho Jr. (53-4-1) will return to the ring as he continues to embark on his journey of winning the title.

According to reports, Andre Berto will challenge IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck in Biloxi, Mississippi on September 3.

Former Contender star Alfonso Gomez says he will release his inner beast when he faces WBC junior-middleweight champion Saul Alvarez at the Staples Center in Los Angeles this September.

The Board of the World Boxing Association, chaired by Dr. Gilberto Mendoza, have not yet made any decision on the request for a rematch between Jonathan Barros and Celestino Caballero.

Adam Santarossa talks to Angelo Hyder, trainer of Danny “The Green Machine” Green, ahead of Wednesday’s big IBO Cruiserweight title fight with “The Magic Man” Antonio Tarver n Sydney, Australia.

Alexander Povetkin (21-0, 15 KOs) and Ruslan Chagaev (27-1-1, 17 KOs) will clash for the vacant WBA Heavyweight Title in Erfurt on August 27. In the co-featured main event, WBA & WBO Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion Robert Helenius will collide with Siarhei Liakhovich.

SecondsOut’s Adam Santarossa spoke with former IBF Super Featherweight Champion Barry Michael earlier today, to get his thoughts on tomorrow night’s, Danny Green-Antonio Tarver cruiserweight title fight in Sydney, Australia .

By Adam Santarossa at the scales: Antonio Tarver weighed in first at 89.7kg (197.75 lbs), under the Cruiserweight limit of 200lbs (90.71kg).

After a big weekend of cruiserweight boxing in Germany, the newly crowned IBF international and PABA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan has called out WBO champion Marco Huck.

By Adam Santarossa: The lure of the Danny Green v Antonio Tarver, IBO Cruiserweight Title fight, is that you simply don’t know what you are going to get. Antonio Tarver could well be another Roy Jones. A man who came to Australia, a shell of a fighter he once was, with plenty of hype and all the bells and whistles, only to be destroyed by the hungrier Danny Green in 180 seconds.

WBA/WBO lightweight king Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez warmed up for his November clash with Manny Pacquiao by knocking out Likar Ramos in the first round of a non-title bout at the Plaza de Toros in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico on Saturday night.

Michael “Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira captured the vacant WBC Latino middleweight title in on the “Sao Paulo Fight Night” pro-am card, by way of a sixth-round knockout of Jose“Minquito” Soto at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo.

Marco Huck retained his WBO cruiserweight title in Munich, Germany on Saturday night when he scored a 10th round tko over Hugo Garay in a real barn burner.

Former WBA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan won the IBF International and PABA cruiserweight titles via fifth round tko against the over matched Lubos Suda. In Baden-Württemberg, Germany on Friday night.

Middleweight Nader “Lionheart” Hamdan out-pointed Daniel Pawsey over 12 hard rounds at the Orion Function Centre, Campsie, New South Wales, Australia on Friday.

WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco “Captain” Huck (32-1, 23 KOs) and hot-blooded challenger Hugo Hernan Garay (34-5, 18 KOs) needed to be restrained today following a heated press conference in Munich.

Next Wednesday evening on the undercard of Danny Green’s IBO Cruiserweight Title defence against American Antonio Tarver from the Sydney Entertainment Centre, will be a battle between 2 top 15 rated welterweights.

WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco “Captain” Huck has refused to enter a dirty war of words with Hugo Hernan Garay.

This Friday (July 15th) former WBA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan returns to the ring against Lubos Suda from Czech Republic.

Hugo ‘Incredible’ Cazares produced impressive speed, power and skill at the Plaza De Toros in Mazatian, Mexico on Saturday night, prior to knocking out Arturo Badillo inside three rounds.

Canadian based Lucian Bute retained his IBF super middleweight crown Saturday night by knocking out mandatory challenger Jean Paul Mendy in the fourth round at the Romexpo in Bucharest, Romania.

The biggest fight in women´s boxing is finally on! Later this year, WBA, WBC & WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus will take on American pound-for-pound queen Holly Holm.

Ruslan Chagaev and Alexander Povetkin have been nominated to fight for the regular WBA heavyweight title following Wladimir Klitschko’s victory over champion David Haye.

By Adam Santarossa: Billy “The Kid” Dib fights for the IBF Featherweight Title at the Sydney Olympic Park States Sports Centre on July 29th against Mexican challenger, Jorge Lacierva. Billy took time out of his hectic training schedule to sit down and discuss the fight and the career of Billy “The Kid” in an exclusive interview with SecondsOut.

Jonathan Victor Barros retained WBA featherweight champion his title via split decision against former world titleholder Celestino Caballero at the Polideportivo La Colonia in Junin, Mendoza, Argentina on Saturday night.

Humberto Soto has relinquished his WBC lightweight crown and moved up to the junior-weltwelterweight.

WBC flyweight champion Pongsaklek Wonjongkam retained his title via a 12 round unanimous decision in Hatyai, Thailand on Friday against brave Japanese challenger Takuya Kogawa

After more than two years of insults and one blaming the other for the fight not happening, IBF/WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and WBA king David Haye, finally get to trade punches instead of insults at the Imtech Stadium in Hamburg, Germany on Saturday night.

Click on the link to see who current boxers, former boxers and trainer think will win this weekend’s big world heavyweight title match up.

Michael“The Brazilian Rocky” Oliveira continues his mission to re-popularize boxing in his native Brazil, when he returns home to fight for the third time on July 16 at Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo.

Dominik Britsch has set his sights on his first major belt when he takes on Ryan Davis for the vacant IBF Intercontinental Middleweight Title in Munich on July 16.

Logan Cotton McGuinness successfully defended his NABA lightweight title for the second time, taking a 10-round majority decision against veteran Daniel Ruiz at The Fights” show (June 24) at Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Felix Sturm retained his WBA middleweight title via a 12 round split decision win over Birmingham based Irishman Matthew Macklin Saturday in a real barstormer at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.

World top 10 ranked heavyweight Kali Meehan took just one round to hammer Michael Kirby at the Southport Sharks club in Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia on Friday.

By Peter Lerner: Expectations are almost at breaking point for the ‘Italian fight of the century’ this Saturday between Leonard Bundu and Daniele Petrucci in Rome.

European Light Heavyweight Champion Eduard Gutknecht will make a first defence of his title on July 16 when he takes on Lorenzo Di Giacomo in Munich,Germany.

This Saturday sees the most eagerly-awaited Italian fight in decades: Leonard Bundu versus Daniele Petrucci. Both fighters are Italian, undefeated and at the peak of their powers. At stake is the European welterweight title that both fighters have been pursuing doggedly for the past three years.

WBO Cruiserweight Champion Marco has promised his fans another exciting victory on July 16 when he faces Argentinian ex-champion Hugo Hernan Garay at Munich´s Olympic Park.

Pakistan born three-times Olympic boxer Abrar Hussain was shot dead in Quetta on Thursday, police have confirmed.

Banner Promotions President Art Pelullo said, “I understand that Sergio Martinez is going to be fighting Darren Barker on October 1.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Bongani Dlamini earned the right to fight for the SA Light weight title by beating Samkelo Fani via third round knockout at the Nasrec Indoor Arena, south of Johannesburg over the weekend.

By Dmytro Mossienko at ringside: Georgia’s IBO middleweight champion Avtandil Khurtsidze rallied in round one of his clash with Dionisio Miranda to stop the opponent via the way of clean knock out!

Juan Carlos Reveco won the WBA interim flyweight title by knocking out Jean Piero Perez in the second round at the Estadio Vicente Polimeni in Mendoza, Argentina on Friday night.

WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Emeritus Mikkel Kessler celebrated a spectacular comeback on Saturday night when he destroyed brave Frenchman Mehdi Bouadla in six rounds.

By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Francois Botha (48-5-3) defeated Flo Simba (10-1) via sixth round stoppage at Emperors Palace, east of Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday.

Team Bouadla is convinced that the 14-month layoff has made WBC Super Middleweight World Champion Emeritus Mikkel Kessler rusty.

Following an enforced hiatus from the ring of nearly 14 months due to a potentially career threatening eye injury former WBC super-middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler returns on Saturday(June 4) night when he faces world ranked Mehdi Bouadla at the Parken Stadium in Denmark.

By Dmytro Mossienko at ringside: Klitschko brother’s promotional powerhouse K2 staged another exciting boxing card in Kiev, Ukraine’s capital on Saturday (28 May), during the Kiev day celebration.

Alfonso “El Huracán” Mosquera took just three rounds to destroy Arsenio Terrazas and successfully defend his WBC Latin junior middleweight title at the RIU Hotel in Panama City, Panama on Friday night.

Heavyweight title challenger Tomaz Adamek believes the way to beat Vitali Klitschko is to adopt a high workrate from the start and weather the early storm before taking over the fight late on. The 34 year old former light-heavyweight and cruiserweight world champion challenges Klitschko for the WBC heavyweight crown at the new Miejski stadium in Wroclaw, Poland on September 10 and insists he has the desire to defeat the long time champion.

American former light-heavyweight champ Chad Dawson put himself on schedule for a crack at new WBC light-heavyweight king Bernard Hopkins at the Bell Center in Montreal, Canada on Saturday night by out-pointing Adrian Diaconu over 12 rounds.

WBO #1 contender Denis Lebedev scored a vicious 10th round knockout against American boxing legend Roy Jones Jr at the Sport Complex Krylatskoe in Moscow, Russia on Saturday night.

South African boxer has been stripped of his IBF lightweight title for failing to defend it in the time scale permitted.

Opponents have been named for both Jonathan Oquendo and Jonathan Gonzalez ahead of their upcoming bouts on June 3

Australian boxing legend Lionel Rose passed away on Sunday after several months of ill health-he was 62 years old.

WBC Super Middleweight Champion Emeritus Mikkel Kessler will make his eagerly-awaited comeback on June 4 when he takes on Mehdi “Nightmare” Bouadla.

Australian Daniel Geale pulled off a memorable victory in Neubrandenburg, Germany earlier tonight when he out-pointed German Sebastian Sylvester via split decision to claim the IBF middleweight crown.

Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield stopped Danish hero Brian Nielsen via a 10th round technical knockout at the sold out 2000 seat Copenhagen Concert Hall in Denmark on Saturday night.

What do Marvin Hagler, Frank Tate, Michael Nunn, James Toney, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor and Arthur Abraham share in common?

UBO Inter-Continental Bantamweight Champion Mbwana Matumla retained his title at the PTA Hall in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania winning a unanimous decision over Gabriel Ochieng.

By Derek Bonnett: The last week of April was largely dominated by talk of the royal wedding between Prince William and Catherine Middleton, but the world of professional boxing also experienced four additions to its royal family. The SecondsOut 108 pound world rankings experienced a lot of movement courtesy of the results of three separate world championship bouts.

Raul and Ramon Garcia joined Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko as the only brothers to hold world titles at the same time at the Foro Polanco in Mexico City on Saturday night. Raul stopped Rommel Asenjo via third round stoppage in a WBO minimumweight title clash while brother Ramon scored a fourth round stoppage win over Jesus Geles for the WBO junior flyweight crown.

Ulises Solis regained his IBF light-flyweight title in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday night, scoring a 12 round split decision points win over Luis Alberto Lazarte.

Adrian Hernandez battered brave fellow Mexican Gilberto Keb Baas to claim the WBC light-flyweight title at Coliseo de la Feria in Texcoco Estado Mexico, Mexico on Saturday night.

Arthur Abraham will travel to the US on Sunday morning to face American Andre Ward in the Super Six Tournament after the referee row was eventually resolved.

Hall-of-Fame Promoter Wilfried Sauerland has postponed King Arthur´s departure to the USA since Dan Goossen and the Californian Boxing Commission have failed to take action in the row over the officials.

Chris John Successfully defended his WBA featherweight crown for the 13th time at the International Expo, Jakarta, Indonesia on Sunday with a 12 round unanimous points victory over Daud Cino Yordan.

WBA/IBA Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov remains fully prepared to continue his history-making journey to unify the light heavyweight titles before the end of 2011 with one of the other 175-pound division world champions.

WBC super-featherweight kingTakahiro Aoh (21-2-1, 10 KOs), successfully retained his title with fourth round points win over Humberto Gutierrez in Kobe,Japan on Friday.

WBC super-bantam champion Toshiaki Nishioka scored a sixth round stoppage win over Mauricio Munoz to retain his WBC super-bantamweight title in Kobe, Japan on Friday.

Mexican puncher Jhonny Gonzalez stunned Japanese boxer Hozumi Hasagawa with a single fourth round knockout punch to claim the WBC featherweight title in Kobe, Japan on Friday night.

By Derek Bonnett: The theme for this week’s boxing action is "New Faces" as four previously unranked fighters climbed aboard SecondOut’s top ten lists. Regrettably, Denis Boytsov, Andy Lee, Juan Carlos Burgos and Edrin Dapudong had to say goodbye to top ten honors for now. It was a week of big time KOs and questionable scoring, so the work of professional prizefighting marches into April without much of a change.

Hernan Marquez is the new WBA flyweight champion after defeating champion Luis Concepcion at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama on Saturday night.

March Huck inflicted the first defeat on the record of Ran Nakash at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany on Saturday when he won a 12 round decision to retain his WBO cruiserweight title.

Krzysztof Wlodarczyk retained his WBC Cruiserweight title via a 12 round split decision win over Francisco Palacios at the at the Hala Luczniczka in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Saturday night.