News - Danny Williams

Heavyweight Danny Williams has accused promoter Ahmet Öner of personally ringing the bell early to save his fighter Konstantin Airich during a controversial sixth round in Bilbao, Spain on Friday night. "I had the guy hurt in the sixth round, on the verge of knocking him out and then what happens? His own promoter stands up and rings the bell, halfway through the round," Williams told Setanta Sports News. "“I didn’t expect read more ...

IBF middleweight champion "King" Arthur Abraham (25-0, 20 KOs) impressively took apart Wayne Elcock (18-3, 8 KOs) round by round on Saturday night at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. Arthur dropped Elcock in round two and continued to dismantle Elcock, dropping the challenger again in round five before referee Wayne Kelly stopped the slaughter at the 1:58 mark. It was Abraham's sixth successful title defense read more ...

Oleg Platov will defend his IBF Intercontinental Heavyweight Title against Danny Williams on the Abraham undercard in Basle on Saturday night. The hard-hitting Ukrainian (26-1, 22 KOs) won the belt from former WBO heavyweight champion Henry Akinwande in November 2006 when he clinched a split decision. He is now eager to prove his class again against another experienced and highly-respected veteran read more ...

Danny Williams regained the British heavyweight crown with a ninth-round knockout of Scott Gammer in Neath. Gammer started brightly, but a lean Williams began to show his class in the middle rounds, a big right hand wobbling the Welshman in the seventh. read more ...

Heavyweight Audley Harrison (21-2, 16 KOs) scored an impressive third round TKO over a battered and bloody Danny Williams (36-6, 29 KOs) on Saturday night at ExCel Arena in London. Harrison ripped open a cut on Williams' nose in round one and cut Williams under the left eye in round two. The one-sided bout was finally halted in round three after Harrison dropped Williams with a vicious uppercut, then connected with the same punch read more ...

Matt Skelton out-boxed Danny Williams to relieve him of his Commonwealth heavyweight title in Cardiff. The fight was a rematch of their brutal February encounter, which Williams won on a spilt decision. read more ...

Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams weighed in at a whopping 288lbs for Saturday's rematch with Matt Skelton at the Millennium Stadium in Wales. For Williams (36-4, 29 KOs), it's a 21-pound increase from what he weighed in his February split decision win over Skelton (19-1, 18 KOs), who scaled in at 255, the same weight as in the first fight. Promoter Frank Warren says he will be on the phone within hours of the Williams read more ...

Danny Williams retained his Commonwealth heavyweight title via split decision after a punishing 12 rounds this Saturday night against the rough and tough British champion Matt Skelton, with scorecards of 115-114 in favour of the challenger and the remaining cards of 115-114 and 116-113 both in favour Williams read more ...

British champion Matt Skelton says he feels no burden to rekindle interest in the domestic heavyweight division. Skelton meets Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams in the wake of the farce between Williams and former Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison. The 37-year-old told BBC Sport ahead of Saturday's date at London's Excel arena: "I don't feel under pressure to resurrect British heavyweight boxing "In boxing, you're in it for yourself read more ...

The fight card is being billed as "Be There," but Commonwealth heavyweight champion Danny Williams was not there at today's prefight press conference for Saturday's showdown at London's ExCel Arena with Matt Skelton. Williams actually did make it to London's Landmark Hotel, but refused to wait for Skelton who was caught in traffic. Today's disappearance gives critics another chance to speculate on what type of condition Williams read more ...