News - Michael Sprott

Perennial British heavyweight contender Michael Sprott has recently been brought in as a sparring partner for IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Sprott arrived in Kitzbuhel, Austria a few days ago and he has joined the final stages of the Klitschko training camp at the Hotel Stanglwirt read more ...

IBF middleweight champion ‘King’ Arthur Abraham (29-0, 23 KOs) overcame a strong challenge from previously unbeaten Lajuan Simon (21-1, 12 KOs) to retain his title for the ninth time on Saturday night at the Sparkassen Arena in Kiel, Germany. After his normal start in which he blocked many punches with his peek-a-boo defense, Abraham opened up in round five landing a sustained barrage of hard shots. read more ...

Former WBO heavyweight and current NABA heavyweight champion “Relentless” Lamon Brewster has signed a deal with German-based promotional outfit Sauerland Event. Brewster (34-4, 30 KOs) will fight in the co-featured slot of IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham’s world title defense against Lajuan Simon on March 14 at the Ostseehalle in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. His opponent will be former British read more ...

Anselmo Moreno (22-1-1, 8 KOs) dethroned previously unbeaten WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko (21-1-2, 7 KOs) via unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Burg-Wächter Castello in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was a technical fight with the much taller Moreno prevailing by scores of 116-113, 116-112 and 116-112. Sidorenko's world title reign ended in his seventh defense read more ...

Michael Sprott has been forced to pull out of Saturday’s(May 26) Commonwealth heavyweight title fight with Matt Skelton at the ExCel Centre in London, due to a knee injury. Sprott’s trainer Jim Evans has confirmed to SecondsOut that the 32 year-old broke down in training on three separate occasions last week read more ...

Depite losing in three of his last four bouts, heavyweight Audley Harrison has vowed to return. "I'll be back and hopefully I will have a chance to rectify it with Michael Sprott straight away," said Harrison after his devastating knockout loss to Sprott on Saturday. Promoter Frank Warren, however, is not optimistic about the 2000 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist's future as a fighter. "If he decides to fight read more ...

Unbeaten lightweight Michael Katsidis (22-0, 20 KOs) scored an impressive four round stoppage of Graham Earl (25-2, 12 KOs) to claim the WBO interim world title on Saturday night at Wembley Arena in London. Both boxers went right at each other early and Katsidis quickly got the better of it, dropping Earl twice in round one and again in round two. Katsidis was briefly down himself in round two, but quickly recovered and continued read more ...

Commonwealth heavyweight champion Matt Skelton is backing Audley Harrison to beat Michael Sprott - but has warned his big British rival he's still number one. Harrison tackles Sprott tomorrow night at Wembley Arena, with the English and EU heavyweight titles on the line. And with the winner pencilled in to fight Skelton in May, the Bedford Bear will be ringside to make sure his rivals don't steal a march on him. "I hold the Commonwealth read more ...

All three judges Andre Van Grootenbruel 115-113,Joachim Jacobsen 115-113 and Arthur Ellensohn 116-113 scored for the undefeated Virches even though many ringside observers saw Sprott a handy winner by at least the same margin as the judges had him losing. When the officiall result was read out by the MC the Austrian crowd booed the decision read more ...

Heavyweight Vladimir Virchis 242.5 outweighed Michael Sprott 232.8 prior to their clash tomorrow evening at Freizeit Arena in Soelden, Austria. The unbeaten Virchis, 19-0 (17), of the Ukraine will defend his WBO intercontinental title against Englishman Sprott, 27-8 (14), live on Eurosport at 19:00 CET. The event is promoted by Spotlight Boxing and includes nine fights. The weigh-in took place today at Medical Center read more ...