In a WBO lightweight eliminator, 2004 Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KOs) won a five round technical decision over legendary “Baby Faced Assassin” and former three-division world champion Marco Antonio Barrera (65-7, 42 KOs) on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England. In round one, Barrera suffered a deep gash on the hairline from an unintentional headbutt that bled into his left eye from read more ...

Nicky Cook had to overcome a severe cut to defend his European featherweight title for the third time with a points victory over Yuri Voronin in Dagenham. read more ...

The latter months of 2005 were frustrating times for current European featherweight champion Nicky Cook, as the reoccurrence of his old hand injury came back to haunt him. A damaged right metacarpal forced him out of a voluntary defence against Yuri Voronin of the Ukraine back in November on the “Hells Kitchen” show read more ...

Cheeky chappy Cook, for his part, looked as though he could stand toe-to-toe with Harrison merely minutes after scoring his most impressive result to date. The 25-year-old triple-champ joked: "It's about time a good-looking featherweight held that WBO title..." read more ...