BOXNEWS.com.ua - Boxing News - Don King http://www.boxnews.com.ua/Promoter/100/Don-King Sun, 27 May 2012 10:19:42 +0300 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/img/photos/160/100t.jpg http://www.boxnews.com.ua/Promoter/100/Don-King BOXNEWS.com.ua - Boxing News - Don King http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/11109/2012-04-12/Stiverne-opponent-named An important heavyweight fight has been added Don King’s first boxing card on Saturday at the all-new Casino Miami Jai-Alai. WBC #1-ranked contender Bermane “B-Ware” Stiverne (21-1-1, 20 KOs), a Haitian fighting out of Miami, will face Willie Herring (13-10-3, 4 KOs), from Orlando. Herring has shown the ability in the past to defeat favored fighters on numerous occasions Boxing Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:04:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/10429/2012-01-12/Judah-vs-Paris-Eliminator-Purse-Bid-Won-By-Main-Events Main Events won a purse bid Tuesday to promote an IBF junior welterweight elimination match between former champion Zab Judah and unbeaten Vernon Paris Boxing Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:40:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/8795/2011-04-20/Guillermo-Jones-Yoan-Pablo-Hernandez-Purse-Bid-4-28 The championship committee of the WBA has called for a purse bid to stage a mandatory fight between cruiserweight champion, Guillermo Jones, and interim-champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez. The purse bid takes place at Boxing Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:14:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/8679/2011-04-07/Arena-named-after-Don-King Legendary boxing promoter Don King was in Mexico City Wednesday to join municipal authorities of Texcoco, Estado de Mexico, WBC President Jose Sulaiman and other key members of the WBC to inaugurate the new Don King Coliseum at the Feria Internacional del Caballo. Three world championship fights are already scheduled for the arena to be presented by Dr. Fausto Daniel Garcia’s «Boxing Gala» Promotions Boxing Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:29:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/8519/2011-03-09/Don-King-I-Still-Want-Tito-To-Fight-Hopkins-in-Rematch Legendary promoter Don King is in Sin City for this Saturdays junior middleweight clash between Miguel Cotto and his fighter Ricardo Mayorga. King told BoxingScene and other members of the media that the one fight he truly wants to see is a rematch between his fighter Felix Tito Trinidad and Bernard The Executioner Hopkins Boxing Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:12:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/7441/2010-08-13/Dzinziruk-vs-Mayorga-Being-Explored-For-October-2? Ricardo Mayorga is back on the scene again and this time he is trying to secure a fight against Ukrainian Sergiy Dzinziruk, current junior middleweight champion of the WBO, for a date of October 2. The rumored opponent for Dzinziruk was Luis Collazo, who recently said he was not interested in accepting the fight at this time and needed a tuneup or two Boxing Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:40:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/interviews/7133/2010-06-03/K2-East-head-updates-on-Khurtsidze-Nuzhnenko-and-more Vadim Bukhkalov, the head of K2 East Promotions, commented on the recent status and upcoming future of several most notable fighters from his team in his interview for the Boxnews web portal. About WBA #5 and WBO #10 middleweight Avtandil Khurtsidze (21-1-2, 12 KOs Boxing Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:05:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/7092/2010-05-24/Andriy-Kotelnik-Don-King-Make-a-Deal-in-Ukraine As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, American promoter Don King arrived in Lviv, Ukraine to sign a former WBA light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-3, 13KOs) to a promotional contract. Kotelnik's deal with Don King Productions will be a three fight agreement, and the first of those three fights will likely take place on August 7 against WBC/IBF champion Devon Alexander (20-0, 13KOs) on HBO Boxing Mon, 24 May 2010 21:45:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/7041/2010-05-12/Boxing-Buzz Rumor has it that the Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley PPV generated 1.4 million buys. Nothing official yet. —– WBA World Middleweight Champion Felix Sturm could return in late summer against Ricardo Mayorga according to DKP, which is trying to stop Mayorga from competing in an MMA match this weekend Boxing Wed, 12 May 2010 03:04:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/7035/2010-05-11/Spinks-to-face-Bundrage Promoter Don King will host a press conference on Wednesday in St. Louis to announce the return of hometown star Cory Spinks to defend his IBF junior middleweight championship against #1-ranked mandatory challenger Cornelius Bundrage on June 12 at the Chaifetz Arena Boxing Tue, 11 May 2010 12:46:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/6778/2010-03-25/Valuev-Should-Get-Away-From-Don-King-Says-Karmazin Former junior middleweight champion Roman Karmazin tried to warn his countryman, Nikolai Valuev, to get away from co-promoter Don King, but the seven-foot Russian giant didn't listen to his advice. Valuev is co-promoted by King and Sauerland Event Boxing Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:30:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/6569/2010-02-13/Valuevs-Side-Demands-a-60-40-Split-For-Klitschko-Fight Don King Productions and Sauerland Event have countered K2 Promotions latest offer to former two-time World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Nikolai “Giant Russian” Valuev (50-2, 34 KOs) to face World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) with a deal calling for a 60-40 percentage split Boxing Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:02:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/6571/2010-02-13/Team-Klitschko-Valuev-and-King-You-Can-Forget-60-40 BoxingScene.com spoke with Shelly Finkel, adviser to WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, to get his thoughts on the recent monetary demand from promoter Don King, who is negotiating on behalf of Nikolai Valuev. Team Klitschko offered Valuev $1 million dollars for a potential May fight. King countered with a $4 million dollar demand Boxing Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:10:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/6047/2009-10-31/King-Tyson-reunite Tyson has joined the broadcast team to add color commentary to King’s “Halloween Thrilla” fight card Saturday (Oct. 31) from Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The exciting five-fight undercard will be offered globally on pay per view for $5.99 at www.DonKingTV.com beginning at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT/10 p.m. GMT. The legendary former undisputed heavyweight champion, whose greatest years were spent with King Boxing Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:48:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/5359/2009-05-30/DKP-wants-Valuev-named- Boxing promoter Don King has asked the World Boxing Association to declare Nikolai Valuev its undisputed heavyweight champion after Saturday’s match between Valuev and WBA “champion in recess” Ruslan Chagaev at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland, was cancelled. “The World Boxing Association should act swiftly and unequivocally to designate Nikolai Valuev as its undisputed heavyweight champion,” King said from New York Boxing Sat, 30 May 2009 12:52:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/3277/2007-03-22/Don-King-Visits-Bergamo-Italy Legendary promoter Don King today visited Bergamo, Italy, where he met the president of the province of Bergamo, met the mayor of Bergamo, and toured the recently discovered remnants of an underground Catholic church dating from the 6th century. King's tour was hosted by a boxer he represents, Italian 154-pound champion Luca "Bergamo Bomber" Messi, and is the first stop Boxing Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:26:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/2271/2005-12-20/Williams-gets-Skelton-grudge-bout Danny Williams will face Matt Skelton next February in London in a bout which could see the winner handed a shot at a heavyweight world title. Boxing Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:20:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/2175/2005-11-17/Byrd-a-promotional-free-agent- Sources close to the situation have informed Boxingtalk.com that IBF heavyweight champion Chris Byrd is now a promotional free agent. "Free as a Byrd," said our source. Byrd was unavailable for immediate comment. Last night Boxingtalk reported that WBC heavyweight champion Hasim Rahman is a free agent as well, and Top Rank has made him a lucrative offer to fight Oleg Maskaev in early 2006 Boxing Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:39:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/2026/2005-10-07/King-planning-154lb-tourney- Promoter Don King, who promotes all four world jr middleweight champions (Ricardo Mayorga/WBC, Alex Terra Garcia/WBA, Roman Karmazin/IBF, Daniel Santos/WBO) is planning a tournament to sort out the 154lb division. The first round would likely land on January 7, Roberto Sandoval, Terra Garcia's manager, told Fightnews.com. Sandoval added that the preference is for Garcia (25-1, 24 KO’s) to face Mayorga. Boxing Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:08:00 +0300 http://www.boxnews.com.ua/en/news/1408/2005-05-16/Mismatched-Wright-and-Trinidad-heading-for-rematch ..."I said I was going to win every round one by one, and that's what I did," said Wright (49-3). "Once I saw I could hit him with my jab and hurt him with it, I didn't deviate from my game plan." According to CompuBox statistics, Wright outlanded the Puerto Rican 262 punches to 58 and outjabbed him by more than a 12-1 ratio, 185 to just 15. There were no knockdowns but Trinidad was wobbled several times, including in the last minute of the fight. So dominant was Wright that despite overwhelming support for Trinidad among a crowd of 14,176 in the MGM Grand Garden at the start, by the end ... Boxing Mon, 16 May 2005 11:22:00 +0300