News - Fight Wladimir Klitschko -VS- Chris Byrd

All or Nothing! That’s how the title fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Chris Byrd for the IBF Heavyweight championship belt is being billed. After four-month negotiations, Wladimir signing a fight contract in Hamburg at 13:10 local time. The fight would take place on April 22nd at SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany. Initially, Wladimir’s fight with Chris should’ve taken place in April of last year. However, Chris’s wife Tracy, who opposed the read more ...

IBF Heavyweight Champion Chris Byrd (39-2-1, 20KO's) faces former heavyweight champion and top contender Wladimir Klitschko (45-3, 40KO's) on April 22 in Mannheim, Germany. This is a rematch of a bout that took place in October of 2000 when Klitschko took Byrd's WBO heavyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision. Since capturing the vacant IBF title against Evander Holyfield, Byrd has successfully defended his title four times read more ...

Most of us regular folk have already broken one or more of our New Year's resolutions. Not Emanuel Steward. The Hall of Fame trainer and manager has a list of three things on his 2006 To Do list, and one pledge to himself stands taller--6 ft. 6 inches, to be exact--than the others. Foremost on the King of Kronk's covenant: see to it that by the end of 2006, Wladimir Klitschko is seen as the best heavyweight in the world read more ...