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The other sanctioning organizations may not agree, but WBA heavyweight champion John “The Quietman” Ruiz has made a bold proclamation. “I’m the real undisputed heavyweight champion of the world” Ruiz said. “None of the other champions will fight me. I’m the king of the heavyweight division; King Kong on top of the Empire State Building and all of the others are down on the street looking up at me..." read more ...

Five-time world champion Johnny Tapia (54-4-2, 29 KOs) and Frankie Archuleta (24-4-1, 14 KOs) have both signed their contracts to fight a rematch on Friday, April 15 in Albuquerque at a venue TBA. The non-title, ten-round featherweight bout will be promoted by Fresquez Productions, Inc. and Don Chargin Productions at a venue to be announced. Last year, Archuleta... read more ...

During Gary Shaw's turn at the podium, he declared "Sometimes fighters make mistakes inside the ring, but with all due respect, Tito and Papa Trinidad have just made a mistake outside of the ring by signing this fight." He then concluded by saying that once Winky beats Tito they would come and celebrate in Puerto Rico instead of Disneyland... read more ...

Oscar de la Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions has signed jr welterweight contender Junior Witter to a three fight pact following his exciting win over Lovemore N'Dou on Saturday night. The bout was a WBC eliminator that puts Witter into a final eliminator with Gianluca Branco for the WBC's mandatory slot. Witter, however, will be unable to train... read more ...

During the fight some of the crowd booed. "I think they wanted to see a Gatti-Ward type fight and I gave it to them in spurts, but I don't fight like that way," said Hopkins. "I've got my style and I can turn it up when I want to"... read more ...

"I didn't know anything about him," Margarito admits. "But, when I was in Tijuana, about 15 days ago, I watched some of his fight videos. He only has one loss and he likes to come out looking to KO his opponents. He likes to throw a lot of punches. He is very open on his punches, so we will try to take advantage of that..." read more ...

Bernard Hopkins was originally planning to defend just his WBC title when facing Howard Eastman Saturday night in Los Angeles. However now the IBF, WBA and WBO have all added their sanction to the Hopkins-Eastman fight, making this the first ever title defense of the four major belts all at one time... read more ...

The stage is set for the return of three-time world champion Marco Antonio Barrera according to promoter Oscar De La Hoya. "El Paso has my word, it's official that Marco Antonio Barrera will be defending his WBC World Super Featherweight title against Mzonke Fana at the Don Haskins Center on April 9th..." read more ...

The fight will take place on May 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as the main preliminary bout before the middleweight contest between Felix Trinidad and Winky Wright. Then, assuming Judah is successful, he would like to fight the returning former welterweight champ Oscar De La Hoya in a big-money fight. "I'm going to show ya'll what..." read more ...

King has apparently all but reached an agreement with K-2 for Wladimir Klitschko to face Byrd on April 16 (although the younger Klitschko's desire to fight in Germany could be a deal-breaker) and two of King's men, Brewster and Andrew Golota, will box for the WBO belt in Chicago on May 21... read more ...