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Can Marquez finally claim the win he craves against Pacquiao?

Pacquiao (left) and Marquez will complete a famous trilogy on Saturday

Five-time, three-weight World champion Juan Manuel Marquez (53-5-1, 39KO’s) could be forgiven for resting on his laurels and looking back at a career well done, but instead, this Saturday, faces the biggest test of his boxing life to date, against [...]

Bradley all fired up and ready for Casamayor

Bradley (pictured at yesterday's final presser) had plenty to say for himself

Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11KO’s) was all fired up as he faced reporters in the final press conference ahead of defending his WBO junior-welterweight title on Saturday in the chief-supporting bout to Pacquiao-Marquez III in Las Vegas. Opponent, Cuban veteran [...]

Kirkland comes back from knockdown to stop Angulo in a war

Angulo (left) couldn't avoid Kirkland's relentless punching

Everything was against James Kirkland (30-1, 27KO’s) stepping into the ring in Cancun, Mexico to face Alfredo Angulo (20-2, 17KO’s) but the Austin, Texas man pulled off a great performance last night, getting up off the canvas to stop his man in six furiously [...]

Champ Bute shuts out Johnson for ninth title defense

Bute (right) lands a hook from his southpaw stance

It was billed as possibly Canadian-based Romanian IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute’s (30-0, 24KO’s) toughest fight to date, but he was in total control against Glen Johnson (51-16-2, 35KO’s) tonight at the Pepsi Coliseum in Quebec City, shutting out the 42-year-old Miami [...]

Burns hangs on to defeat Katsidis and become two-weight champ

Burns (left) keeps Katsidis at bay with his jab

Scotland’s Ricky Burns (33-2, 9KO’s) is the new WBO interim lightweight champion after defeating Michael Katsidis (28-5, 23KO’s) over twelve rounds tonight at the Wembley Arena in London. Burns now becomes a two-weight World champion and with it picked up possibly the [...]

Katsidis looking to make it third time lucky and win title against Burns

Burns (left) and Katsidis

Australia’s Michael ‘The Great’ Katsidis (28-4, 23KO’s) has never done things the easy way, and once again travels half way around the World to fight, this time to face Scotland’s Ricky Burns (32-2, 9KO’s) at the Wembley Arena in London on Saturday night in a bout to [...]

Good friends Bute and Johnson will be all business come fight time

Bute (left) and Johnson will put aside their friendship for twelve rounds on Saturday

Undefeated Canadian IBF super-middleweight champion Lucian Bute (29-0, 24KO’s) has been a World champion for four years now with eight successive title defences under his belt, but the Quebec fighter has yet to truly make his name [...]

Marquez still flyweight champ as Concepcion falls in one round

Hernan 'Tyson' Marquez

Mexico’s hard-hitting Hernan Marquez (32-2, 25KO’s) is still the WBA flyweight champ after defeating Panama’s Luis Concepcion (23-3, 18KO’s) in their rematch last night in the champion’s hometown of Sonora, Mexico. Their first fight, an eleventh round TKO win for Marquez, saw both men hit the deck before [...]

Huck destroys Rossi for eighth successive WBO title defense

Marco Huck celebrates an eighth successful defense

Germany’s WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (34-1, 25KO’s) made easy work of Rogelio Omar Rossi (17-3-1, 11KO’s) at the Ludwigsburg Arena in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, knocking the Argentinian challenger down three times on his way to a sixth round stoppage victory. The defense, his eighth, [...]

Donaire frustrated but victorious over Narvaez

Donaire (left) was in control throughout

WBC/WBO bantamweight champion ‘The Filipino Flash’ Nonito Donaire (27-1, 18KO’s) had to settle for a points victory over Argentinian WBO super-flyweight champion Omar Narvaez (35-1-2, 19KO’s) at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York, and although a clear winner Donaire will be disappointed with the [...]

Dawson controversial new champ as Hopkins cries foul

Hopkins is clearly in no mood to continue

‘Bad’ Chad Dawson (31-1, 18KO’s) became the new WBC light-heavyweight champion last night, defeating former holder Bernard ‘The Executioner’ Hopkins (52-6-2, 32KO’s) inside two rounds at the Staples Center in L.A in a highly controversial bout that left a bitter taste in the [...]

Sergio Martinez defends Middleweight crown with late stoppage

Martinez celebrates as Barker finds himself unable to continue through a mixture of fatigue and pain

California-based Argentinian World middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (48-2-2, 27KO’s) didn’t make things easy for himself against London’s Darren Barker (23-1, 14KO’s) at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ last night but eventually found his [...]

Mayweather wins ugly in comeback against Ortiz

Mayweather catches Ortiz with a cheap shot

Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather’s fourth round KO victory over ‘Vicious’ Victor Ortiz to claim the Californian’s WBC welterweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was marred by an ugly sequence of events that left a bitter taste in the mouth of all who [...]

Fury defeats Firtha with controversial stoppage

6’9″ British & Commonwealth heavyweight champ Tyson Fury (16-0-0, 11KO’s) continued his successive run of victories to sixteen in a non-title bout tonight, defeating decent American Nicolai Firtha (20-9-1, 8KO’s) in five exciting rounds at the Kings Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Both men had their successes but in the end Fury’s size and willpower [...]