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IBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight champion Vitaliy Rusal (23-0, 16 KOs) retained his title with a twelve round unanimous decision over tough Hungarian Jozsef Nagy (20-3, 12 KOs) on Saturday night at Yunost Sport Palace in Zaporizhzhja where «K2 East Promotions» held «Big Boxing» tournament read more ...

Heavyweight Matt Skelton (22-2, 19 KOs) claimed the vacant European heavyweight championship with a ninth round stoppage of former Olympic medalist Paolo Vidoz (25-6, 14 KOs) on Friday night at the famed Palalido, Milan, Lombardia, Italy. Vidoz did not come out for round ten. In other action, jr welterweight Gianluca Branco (42-2-1, 22 KOs) retained his Euro title with a ninth round TKO of Juho Tolppola (21-5-1, 9 KOs) read more ...

Nikolai Valuev 310.75 vs Evander Holyfield 214.25 (WBA Heavyweight Championship) Francisco Pianeta 242.25 vs Johann Duhaupas 223.25 (European Union Heavyweight Championship) Eileen Olzsewski 110.75 vs Nadia Raoul 111.25 (WIBA Flyweight Championship) read more ...

Both fighters of the main event of «Big Boxing» tournament had no problems at the scales. Vitaliy Rusal (22-0, 16 KOs), IBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight champion had 87.2 kg while his opponent from Hungary Jozsef Nagy (20-2, 12 KOs) was a bit heavier – 90.2 kg. They will fight on December 20th in Zaporizhzhja read more ...

Top Rank’s Bob Arum, undoubtedly the most astute promoter in the business, has a May 2 date in Las Vegas for a megabuck fight between the Philippines national treasure Manny Pacquiao and Britain ’s Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton. Arum who arrived in Manila on Tuesday morning told insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports “right now I want to lay everything out read more ...

"My misfortune was Valuev's luck," says unbeaten WBA Champion in Recess Ruslan Chagaev (24-0-2, 17 KOs). "I hope that he wins [against Evander Holyfield] so I can beat him again and show who the champion is." It was officially announced at a press conference on Tuesday that Chagaev will return from an Achilles tendon injury to face unbeaten WBA #9 Carl Davis Drumond (26-0, 20 KOs) on February 7th at the Stadthalle in Rostock read more ...

There appears to be some legit bad blood for the proposed June fight between WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko and former cruiserweight champ David Haye. Vitali became enraged after he saw a photo in a mens health magazine of Haye laughing while holding a decapitated head of younger brother Wladimir Klitschko. After Vitali saw the photo, he told family members that he was going to make Haye pay for crossing the line read more ...

Evander Holyfield believes he got what it takes to beat Nikolai Valuev and become the oldest heavyweight champion of all time. The living legend will try to deprive the Russian Giant of his WBA title when he comes face-to-face with him in Zurich on Saturday night. "I am in great shape," Holyfield said during today´s media work-out at the Swissotel. "There have been many great fighters in the history of boxing but nobody managed to win read more ...

Former WBA cruiserweight title holder Firat Arslan is the new mandatory challenger for EBU ruler Marco Huck, who defends the title January 24 against Vadim Safonov from Ukraine. Russian Valery Brudov who was Huck´s previous mandatory challenger left that position to concentrate on a world title shot read more ...

Heavyweight contender David Haye claims he has a verbal deal to face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in London next June. "We sat down and talked numbers that made sense for both sides, and it's done and dusted," stated Haye to the BBC. "We agreed terms and just need to dot the I's and cross the T's. Plain and simple, this is how boxing should be." The WBC has stated that Klitschko has a mandatory obligation to face read more ...