It was a huge night for the Reading fighter as he put two previous defeats to Skelton and a European title defeat to Audley Harrison behind him to move his name up towards the top of the queue of British heavyweight fighters read more ...

Bulgarian heavyweight Kubrat Pulev, 5-0, already has some good wins on his record such as the knockout over veteran Matt Skelton last time out. However, in order to get rated by the EBU you need a minimum of eight fights. Pulev will thus fight in Liege, Belgium, next weekend, in Berlin March 13 and again in April read more ...

Danny Williams has withdrawn from his British Heavyweight title defense against Derek Chisora at Wembley Arena on February 13 citing that he has a viral infection. Promoter Frank is now in talks with two boxers who hold wins over Williams to face Chisora instead on the huge Night of the Champions show read more ...

Sebastian Sylvester 159.2 vs Giovanni Lorenzo 160 Note: Lorenzo made the weight on the second attempt half an hour later. (Vacant IBF middleweight championship) Francesco Pianeta 240.5 vs Matt Skelton 253.1 (EU heavyweight title) read more ...

Unbeaten heavyweight Martin Rogan (12-0, 6 KOs) shocked the second big name in a row on Saturday night at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. Following his win over 2000 Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison, Rogan stopped former world title challenger Matt Skelton (22-3, 19 KOs) to claim the Commonwealth heavyweight title. The fight was waved off after Rogen dropped Skelton with a right hand in round eleven 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 ...

"Matt Skelton was very strong, he wasn't a normal opponent," said WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev after successfully retaining his world title for the first time against Matt Skelton on Saturday night in Dusseldorf, Germany. "It was a tough fight with a great challenger. This fight was also an important challenge for me and in the end I had to give everything. Due to the long break I couldn't give everything read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev had some problems with tough challenger Matt Skelton, showing his nine month layoff since winning the belt, but succeeded with a twelve round unanimous decision to defend his championship for the first time. The bout started at a fast pace with Skelton being the aggressor. He was able to get into the infight more than once and unleashed two good uppercuts. Chagaev got some good work read more ...

Ruslan Chagaev 229.2 vs. Matt Skelton 254.6 (WBA world heavyweight championship) Taras Bidenko 220.4 vs. Cisse Salif 262.7 (WBA Intercontinental heavyweight championship) read more ...

Today's press conference in Dusseldorf, was a "one-man show" by WBA heavyweight champion Ruslan Chagaev after his opponent Matt Skelton was a no-show. Skelton decided to remain a few extra days in his hometown of Bedford, England, and will arrive Wednesday. The unbeaten Chagaev (23-0-1, 17 KOs) will make the first defense of his world title on Saturday at the popular Burg-Wächter Castello fight venue read more ...