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Another Big Boxing Weekend ... Everyone is going Pacquaio crazy, but there's an excellent fight this weekend, too.

Denmark's Mikkel Kessler will defend his WBA super-middleweight title against Andre Ward on Saturday after a row over officials was resolved.

Yuri Foreman Good thing it's getting dark early these days. Saturday night, after Shabbat had ended, Yuri Foreman won the WBA junior middleweight crown - after 12 rounds becoming the first Israeli to grab a boxing title belt: "Before I entered the ring my wife, Leyla, told me: 'Yuri, can I ask you something? Do me a favor, finish it quickly with a ...

The World Boxing Association decided at its general assembly in Colombia on Thursday to approve a rematch between Japan's Daiki Kameda and WBA flyweight champion Denkaosen Kaowichit of Thailand, Kameda's gym said Friday.

Manny Pacquiao's desire to take on Floyd Mayweather may not be enough to persuade the American to climb into the ring for a dream fight against the Filipino, promoter Bob Arum said on Thursday.

" Boxing has traditionally been driven by heavyweights and many of the sport's most recognizable figures through the years have fought in the highest-profile division.

A WBA heavyweight championship bout may not be that far away for David Tua. Current title holder David Haye caused a major upset when he beat the 'Beast from the East' Nikolay Valuev earlier in this month.

Jahmaine Smyle has got the date he has been waiting for. Smyle discovered this week that he will make his professional debut at Northampton's County Cricket Club on December 5. The 23 year-old super-middleweight from Northfields will be looking to reproduce the form that took him to national honours as an amateur.

DUDLEY'S Darren McDermott is plotting a new route to British title glory after announcing plans to move up to the super-middleweight division.

Bolton light-welterweight Khan, who holds the WBA version of the world title, trains with Filipino Pacquiao under Freddie Roach in Los Angeles and the pair regularly spar.

ONE of Britain's finest boxers, Sir Henry Cooper, should be formally recognised in the borough where he grew up, it has been claimed.

Former world super-featherweight champion Alex Arthur admits taking on light-welterweight Nigel Wright is a risk, but he feels he needs a stern challenge to re-ignite his ambitions of fighting again for a world title.

WBA super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler's camp is unhappy about the assignment of local judges and a California referee to his Super Six tournament bout against Andre Ward in Oakland on Saturday.

FORMER world champion Paul Weir has turned trainer to discover the next Scot able to claim a global crown in the ring.

Just over a decade ago it was a sport many thought should be banned. But after a mini renaissance in the past ten years, boxing is now on the rise and is being credited with improving behaviour and attendance within schools.

A rabbi, a Ukranian immigrant and an undefeated New York boxer enter a boxing ring in Las Vegas to fight for the light middleweight title on Saturday night.

Responding to Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s statements earlier this week, seven-time world champion Manny Pacquiao says that "for the record" he wants to fight the undefeated former pound-for-pound king.

Leicester's European super-bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe has been branded a "freak." The southpaw makes the fifth defence of his title when he faces Italy's number one contender Simone Maludrottu at Nottingham's Harvey Hadden Centre a week tomorrow.

Former WBO champion Alex Arthur, from Edinburgh, is making a temporary step up to light-welterweight to fight Nigel Wright in Newcastle on 5 December.