News - Alexander Povetkin

On February 25th in Stuttgart, Germany, WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25KOs) takes the biggest step of his career, when he moves up to heavyweight to challenge WBA «regular» champion Alexander Povektin (23-0, 16KOs). Huck is putting on the pounds, but he disputes circulated reports of gaining meaningless mass read more ...

As previously reported, WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck (34-1, 25KOs) wants to beat WBA «regular» heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16KOs) on February 25th and use that victory to secure a fight with WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. Huck is more interested in facing Vitali than younger brother Wladimir Klitschko, keeper of the WBO/IBO/IBF/WBA titles. Huck, standing at read more ...

WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25KOs) is more than serious about his move to the heavyweight division. The German star signed a contract on Friday to face WBA «regular» champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 16KOs), who also agreed, on February 25th at Porsche-Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Huck invaded the post-fight press conference to Povetkin’s knockout victory over Cedric Boswell and challenged him before the press read more ...

WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (23-0, 15 KOs) scored an impressive eighth round knockout over Cedric Boswell (35-2, 26 KOs). The former Olympic super heavyweight gold medal winner Povetkin was in command the whole fight. Boswell was staggered in round six and Povetkin further worked him over at the end of the seventh and finally floored him for the count with a barrage of punches at the end of round eight read more ...

Alexander Povetkin 227.7 vs. Cedric Boswell 228.8 (WBA Heavyweight Title) Robert Helenius 239.4 vs. Dereck Chisora 243.1 (EBU Heavyweight Title) Jack Culcay 156.5 vs. Giammario Grassellini 155.6 Edis Tatli 136 vs. Pasquale Di Silvio 136 read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that undefeated Robert Helenius (16-0, 11KOs) will face Brit Dereck Chisora (15-1, 9KOs) on December 3rd in Helsinki with the vacant EBU heavyweight title at stake, which ends weeks of speculation on who would be the opponent for the unbeaten Finnish/Swedish heavyweight read more ...

"Before my promoter Mick Hennessy had finalized my fight against Neven Pajkic he received a call from Sauerland Events who asked would we be interested in making the Povetkin fight for December, they were told that we were very interested in the fight but they would need to come back with a sensible offer very quickly as we were close to finalizing my next fight read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that a verbal agreement was reached for a heavyweight clash between WBA «regular» champion Alexander Povetkin (22-0, 15KOs) and rugged contender Cedric Boswell (35-1, 26KOs). According to a source close to Team Povetkin, the fight was offered to Hasim Rahman, the WBA’s top contender, but he wasn’t happy with the money and requested a sum that Sauerland Event was unable to accommodate read more ...

BoxingScene.com’s Per Ake Persson previously reported that unbeaten heavyweight contender Robert Helenius (16-0, 11KOs) was going to return on December 3rd in Helsinki, Finland. According to reports in Russia, WBA «regular» heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (22-0, 15KOs) is possibly going to fight on the same card. It was widley reported that Povetkin was going to fight on December 17th. Povetkin’s opponent is still unknown. No deal has been reached, although Hasim Rahman and Evander Holyfield have been named as potential opponents read more ...

Former four time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (44-10-2, 29KOs) is ready to accept the challenge of WBA «regular» champion Alexander Povetkin (22-0, 15KOs). According to Holyfield, discussions are still ongoing to stage the fight on December 17th in Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland. At the moment, Holyfield, 48-years-old, has no intention of retiring read more ...