WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev (44-0, 32 KOs) destroyed challenger Owen Beck (25-3, 18 KOs) by third round KO on Saturday in Hannover, Germany. Beck tried to crowd Valuev, smothering the seven-footer's punches, but Valuev had some success landing his jab and rocked Beck with a hard right in the first round. Valuev dropped Beck with a right hand late in the second round and nearly finished him off. Valuev dropped Beck again with a right read more ...

Heavyweight contender Oleg Maskaev (31-5, 25 KOs) scored a third round TKO over Livin Castillo (10-3, 7 KOs) Friday night at the Trump Taj Mahal Resort in Atlantic City. Maskaev dropped Castillo twice in the third before the bout was stopped. Castillo was a late, late replacement for Dale Crowe, who didn't show up on Wednesday. Crowe was a sub for Terrence Lewis. read more ...

Even after most of the boxing world counted out Oleg, a 1999 win over former heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman plays fresh in Oleg's mind, as well as an amateur match with the soon-to-be champ Vitali Klitschko, who failed to come out for the second round. Oleg recalls, "He doesn't want to admit it, he says I didn't stop him, he says there was something wrong with his right hand, but that wasn't true... and will I finally have a chance in the future, so I would like to fight him again." read more ...