27-year old Ukrainian heavyweight Oleg Platov (28-1, 22 KOs) seems to be next-in-line to fight red-hot heavyweight prospect and former amateur standout Kubrat Pulev (8-0, 5 KOs), 28, on June 5 in an undercard of Sebastyan Syvester vs. Roman Karmazin IBF middleweight championship read more ...

BoxingScene.com has confirmed that an agreement was reached on Wednesday to match Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (41-0-1, 30KOs) against John Duddy (29-1, 18KOs) in a middleweight contest on June 26 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas read more ...

ulgarian Kubrat Pulev, 4-0, got a surprisingly tough fight against experienced American Zach Page last time out and got a good learning fight. He has accepted to face Oleg Platov, 28-1-0-1, next read more ...

Marco Huck 196 vs Ola Afolabi 196.4 (WBO cruiserweight championship) Alexander Povetkin 221.6 vs Leo Nolan 230.4 Dominik Britsch 159.6 vs Cleber Argente Alves 159.8 (IBF Youth middleweight title) read more ...

"The Nordic Nightmare", Finnish-Swedish 10-0 heavyweight prospect Robert Helenius is sidelined with a hand injury after his tko in four win over Taras Bidenko Saturday night in Nuremberg. This means his December 5 fight against former WBO champ Lamon Brewster is off. Taking Robert´s place is EU champ Francesco Pianeta read more ...

Matt Skelton didn't just lose the Commonwealth title last Saturday night in Birmingham in his upset loss to Martin Rogan. He was also stripped of the EBU heavyweight title. Mandatory challenger is undefeated Alexander Dimitrenko, who now will fight the highest available challenger for the vacant title. Rogan's promoter Frank Warren is going to push for Rogan to get a crack at the vacant EBU title 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 ...

Valuev's promoter Wilfried Sauerland praised Nikolai's excellent condition. "He will have his lightest weight in many years," said Sauerland. "This points to the intensity in which he has prepared in training. I'm sure that he will win." "Usually Nikolai's opponents are smaller anyway," said Valuev's trainer Manny Gabrielian. "We didn't have to change anything read more ...

John Ruiz 237.7 vs Nicolay Valuev 324.1 (WBA heavyweight title) Laila Ali 170 vs Asa Sandell 166.9 Willie Chapman 225.5 vs Alexander Povetkin 196.4 read more ...