News - Fight Vitaly Klitschko -VS- Shannon Briggs

WBA #4 and EBA champion Alexander Ustinov (22-0, 17 KOs) moved forward with the second-round blowout of Turkish "fighter" Oezcan Cetinkaya (18-8-1, 12 KOs) who delivered one of the most miserable and shameful performances in recent years. Cetinkaya was down three times in the first and twice in the second from what were more pushes than actual punches and showed almost no desire to fight read more ...

Here are complete weights from o2 World Hamburg, Germany, for tomorrow night’s Klitschko vs. Briggs fight: Vitali Klitschko 251 vs. Shannon Briggs 262.5 (WBC heavyweight championship) Alexander Ustinov 309 vs. Oezcan Cetinkaya 220.5 read more ...

The talk is over. The two heavyweights stepped on the scale for Saturday's clash at the O2 World Arena in Hamburg, Germany. The fight will be televised by RTL and ESPN3. WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko was 251.3-pounds and looked in great shape. Challenger and former WBO heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs was also in great shape, weighing 262.3-pounds. Photos by Ludo Saenz Luaces in Hamburg read more ...

Vitali Klitschko (40-2, 38 KOs), and Shannon Briggs (51-5, 45 KOs), participated today in a press conference. WBC Champion Klitschko and former WBO Champion Briggs will face off next Saturday at o2 World Hamburg, Germany. read more ...

Trainer Emanuel Steward has give a warning to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko. He advised the champion from Ukraine to stay focused in the fight with Shannon Briggs on October 16 in Hamburg, Germany. Steward told Klitschko that he can't stay too relaxed in the early part of the fight. He thinks the fight could be the toughest of Vitali's entire career read more ...

Former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KOs), who will face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko on October 16 at the O2 World Arena in Hamburg, Germany, is outraged by Klitschko allegedly calling asthma a good excuse. “There are 300 million people in the world with asthma and not one of them would agree with Vitali Klitschko that it’s nothing serious,” said Briggs, a lifelong asthma sufferer read more ...

The latest from Golzka, heavyweight Shannon Briggs has sent a message to WBA champion David Haye of England. Briggs will challenge WBC champion Vitali Klitschko on October 16 in Germany. He took offense to a recent video that was created by the British fighter, where he ridiculed Briggs' medical condition. Briggs wants to make him pay for the insult read more ...

They laughed, played and acted like a pair of drinking buddies. Nobody would guess that Vitali Klitschko and Shannon Briggs have vowed to knock each other out on October 16 in Hamburg, Germany. Klitschko and Briggs took a break during their press tour in Hamburg, and did a little fishing by the water. Klitschko makes the fourth defense of his WBC heavyweight title since returning to the sport in 2008 read more ...

On October 16, WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will make his fifth defense against former WBO titlist Shannon Briggs at the 02 World Arena in Altona, Hamburg, Germany. The 39-year-old Klitschko (40-2, 38 KOs) has not lost since being stopped in the sixth round by Lennox Lewis in June of 2003. The 38-year-old Briggs (51-5-1, 45 KOs) is big puncher, with his last three fights ending by way of knockout in the first round read more ...

According to former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs, he received a bout agreement on Wednesday to face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko on October 16, likely in Germany. Briggs says that he wants to end the career of Vitali, and then wants to hold a unification bout with WBA champion David Haye read more ...