News - Hasim Rahman

After coming in at a career high of 261 lbs., two-time heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman (41-6-2, 33 KOs) took nine rounds to get untracked en route to a ten round unanimous decision over Taurus Sykes (25-3-1, 7 KOs) on Thursday night at the Main Street Armory in Rochester, New York. read more ...

According to scribe Dan Rafael, there is a possibility that IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko will face former champ Hasim Rahman in the fall. It appears that a Klitschko representative has approached Rahman's promoter, Top Rank, with some interest in the fight. In order for the fight to come off, Klitschko read more ...

Former WBC champion Hasim Rahman is close to a deal to fight Sinan Samil Sam in a bout that would pit two of the organization's top four heavyweight contenders. "We're in serious negotiations and expect to complete them by next week some time," Rahman's manager Steve Nelson said Friday. "We are pretty close to finalizing the deal." read more ...

"I´m practicing in our training camp in Armenia at the moment, 2,000 meters high, in preparation for the fight versus Monte Barrett. That's why I had no possibility to see Oleg's fight on the TV. But I was sure that Oleg would get the title, as I stated before. I want to congratulate Oleg and wish him all the best. He is – as we say in Russian – a "Molodjez!" (a great guy). "Now all the heavyweight champions come from the former Soviet Union read more ...

After nine rounds, Hasim Rahman was ahead on two scorecards and seemed to have the momentum, however, it was Maskaev who dug deep down to sweep rounds ten and eleven on the official cards, before stopping "The Rock" in the twelfth, thus taking the verdict out of the hands of judges Jerry Roth, Glen Trowbridge and Anek Hongtongkam read more ...

The new champ didn’t say much. The former champ, having skipped the presser for a check-up at the hospital, didn’t say anything. And another champ, holding a belt of another flavor, put it all in perspective for a crowd dismayed at watching “America’s Last Line of Defense,” as the show was billed, broken when upsetter Oleg Maskaev made history by cementing East European-born fighters’ hold on all four heavyweight belts read more ...

Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the 12th round Saturday night with a dramatic last-minute rally to win the WBC heavyweight title. read more ...

Former Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson raises the arms of WBC World Heavyweight Champion Hasim Rahman and #1 ranked contender Oleg Maskaev after the weighin for their upcoming World Heavyweight Championship rematch on Top Rank's "America's Last Line of Defense" championship card at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Saturday, August 12 ,live on HBO Pay-Per-View . Rahman weighed in at 235 and Maskaev tipped the scales at 238 read more ...

The controversy rages over the promotional tagline for Saturday night’s World Heavyweight Championship bout between Hasim Rahman (41-5-2, 33 KOs) and Oleg Maskaev (32-5, 25 KOs ). The event, which will take place at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas , has been dubbed “ America ’s Last Line of Defense.” Rahman is the only reigning American-born heavyweight champion in a weight class that is becoming dominated by Eastern Europeans read more ...

WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman says he's taking taking the "America's Last Line of Defense" them of Saturday's title defense against Oleg Maskaev very seriously. "All the other belt holders are not American and they trying to get a clean sweep," says The Rock. "So, they going to send me out there to represent my country and I will do that....I need to hold it down for my country. I feel like if I lose this fight, I let me down, my family down, my read more ...