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Lucian Bute vs Glen Johnson (Nov 5th)
Denis Lebedev vs James Toney (Nov 4th)

Also, Sky are showing Alfredo Angulo vs James Kirkland on Nov 5th.

Boxing is going through a difficult time and this type of fight complicates the picture even further. This affects those of us who would like to bring boxing to a different level, back to the golden era...Personally, I never heard Joe Cortez tell the boxers to start fighting again. If someone is apologizing to me, I should wait until they are ready. I would have never done what Mayweather did" - Miguel Cotto [my translation]

R.I.P. Wladimir Rodionowitsch Klitschko

Wednesday, July 13, after a long and severe illness died Vladimir Klitschko Rodionovich, father of boxing world champion Vladimir and Vitali Klitschko.

Vladimir Rodionovich for his life raised two sons and three grandchildren. Colonel of the Air Force, he was a lifelong devoted service in the army, took an active part in the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

\Quote ends here. Reportedly he followed the WK - Haye - fight on TV in a clinique in Hamburg and was transported to Kiev directly afterwards to spend his last days there.

"I really feel bad for the fans that have been waiting for the Pacquaio fight for so long. It's just, if I fight a fighter, I want to make sure that fighter is 100% all-pure and all-natural. He just doesn't want to take these same tests. I work too hard to take a chance of losing to a fighter that's cheating. I'm not saying that Manny Pacquaio is cheating. That just goes for any fighter." Floyd Mayweather

Born in Seattle, Mr. Griggs lived on the streets after being cast out by his family for failing to "fit in," and he has incorporated some of these painful experiences of youth into his moving tale of a boxer’s journey.

"Killer Queen" packs such an emotional punch, in fact, that it has inspired the creation of a nonprofit organization, the Empowerment Center for Youth, that specializes in training young gay boxers.

"The play intertwined with a strong belief I had that boxing can help disempowered gay youth to make an informed decision about how to handle themselves," said Mr. Onello, who was so taken with the play that he decided to start the center with one of his students, Steven Mele.

Mr. Griggs, a 42-year-old dramatist and performer in San Francisco, trained at several gyms before meeting Mr. Onello, 44, two years ago. Their chemistry inspired him to write Mr. Onello into the play, a one-man show (except for Mr. Onello’s cameo) about being gay in the hyper-heteronormative world of boxing.

"But being a British fighter and having more support from American TV just shows that as a British fighter I should have had British TV supporting me more... I think it will be a long time until I come back again" Amir Khan, throwing all his toys out the pram and totally forgetting about his fights televised on ITV, Sky Sports and Sky Box Office. This really pissed me off, because there are British fighters who really haven't had any support from British TV (Carl Froch didn't even have the Jermain Taylor fight televised live here, and has been shafted on Primetime ever since) while Amir's had every single bit of support possible. He needs to stop blaming Sky and take some of the rap for choosing an opponent nobody knew, before he starts annoying a lot of people.

SALISBURY -- Wearing a three-piece, chocolate-brown, pinstripe suit, Fernando Guerrero looked relaxed as he sat back in his chair and smiled during a Thursday news conference at the Brew River Restaurant & Bar. Guerrero had good reason to grin, for his manager, Hal Chernoff, announced that the southpaw will return to Salisbury for his next fight.

Guerrero will enter the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center ring Feb. 18 to defend his North American Boxing Organization middleweight belt against Saul Roman in the main event of ESPN's "Friday Night Fights," which will be broadcast in 3-D for the first time.

"I don't worry about who the bloggers think is the best opponent...I really don't care [what] the writers say or even what the hardcore boxing followers say when it comes to this. I know we need to pick the opponent who is the most familiar to the casual sports fan, the casual boxing fan who cannot name all the fighters" -

And it was not a left hook as so many have incorrectly reported. Martinez is a southpaw and does not throw a left hook. He throws a left cross. Besides, it was an overhand left, but we digress.

David Tua vs Ike Ibeabuchi on ESPN Classic UK
Tuesday 22nd Nov 10.45pm

Great heavyweight fight from 1997.
Both undefeated going in.