With the knockout streak out of the way and a Canadian championship safely in hand, unbeaten David Lemieux (21-0, 20 KOs) defends his super-middleweight belt versus rugged Walid Smichet (20-6-3, 14 KOs) on April 3 in what will be the final Casino de Montreal show for quite some time. Lemieux was able to reel off twenty straight knockouts before being forced to go the distance in winning the Canadian crown versus Jason Naugler read more ...

Moments after losing his IBO Heavyweight Title before a crowd of over 14,000, Sultan Ibragimov offered fans an explanation; in broken English, the fighter stated, "Of course my camp was very good but the last three weeks, I had a problem with my left hand and I couldn't work the way I've worked before." read more ...

"I'm ready to fight again as soon as possible," said unified IBF/WBO/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko following his twelve round unanimous decision over former champ Sultan Ibragimov before 14,011 and a worldwide TV audience. "I want to say thank you to Sultan Ibragimov for taking this fight because boxing fans are tired of all the sports politicians and all the talk about unification that never came read more ...

In the first heavyweight unification clash in nine years, IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (50-3, 44 KOs) claimed the WBO title of previously unbeaten Sultan Ibragimov (22-1-1, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Sultan did more in round one, but Wladimir got his jab working in round two and used that punch almost exclusively to win the next few rounds. Sultan's aggression read more ...

Ibragimov's Trainer Jeff Mayweather: The biggest advantage that we have is hand speed and Sultan is a very good puncher, as well. The other advantage that we have is that Sultan can make adjustments as the fight goes on. He's proven that he can box, he's proven that he can bang and that's the thing when you have to make adjustments. He's proven that he can do both so I think he has a great chance read more ...

Both fighters weighed in moments ago for the first heavyweight unification title fight since 1999. IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko weighed 238 and WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov scaled in at 219 during a special Thursday weigh-in ceremony at New York City's Madison Square Garden. For Wladimir, this is the lowest he has weighed since his first win over Chris Byrd in October 2000 read more ...

The training camp of WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov is in full swing, and as the champ prepares for his February 23rd unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko in New York's Madison Square Garden, the action at the South Florida gym affectionately referred to as "Sultan's House" has been fast and furious, something trainer Jeff Mayweather has been very pleased with. "Sultan came into this camp read more ...

WBO heavyweight titlist Sultan Ibragimov was treated to a meeting with one of boxing's great minds Wednesday when middleweight legend and current world light heavyweight champion Bernard ‘The Executioner’ Hopkins stopped by the Sultan’s gym to speak with Ibragimov, who is preparing for his February 23, 2008 unification bout with IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hopkins read more ...

This, however, is not the case for WBO heavyweight champion Sultan Ibragimov, who has intentionally thrown away all outside matters and thoughts to prepare for his most important fight to the date. And the reward is really worthy of the deepest preparations as the Russian champion is getting ready to take on fellow world titlist Wladimir Klitschko in a IBF/WBO unification clash on February 23rd at Madison Square read more ...

There will be no New Year's Eve parties for WBO Heavyweight Champion Sultan Ibragimov. Instead, he will be preparing for a bigger prize as he gets ready to drop bombs on Wladimir Klitschko in their highly-anticipated heavyweight title unification bout on February 23rd at Madison Square Garden in New York City. "Anything worth having requires sacrifices," said the unbeaten Ibragimov, who has just opened up his training read more ...