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DuBoef: Negotiations moving for Rahman to replace Povetkin
Top Rank President Todd DuBoef told BoxingScene.com's Rick Reeno that negotiations are in progress to match former WBC heavyweight titleholder Hasim Rahman against Wladimir Klitschko on Decmeber 13 in Germany. Rahman would be replacing Alexander Povetkin, who recently pulled out due to...
ESPN to drop Wednesday Night Fights?
Rick Reeno of BoxingScene.com is reporting that "multiple sources" have revealed that Disney, the parent company of ESPN, has made the order to drop Wednesday Night Fights from the schedule, leaving the sports leader with just one boxing show, Friday Night Fights. Reeno also reports that it's...
Rumor: Arthur Abraham-Winky Wright in January
Rick Reeno of BoxingScene.com is reporting that "a source close to the camp of Winky Wright" says that Wright is looking at IBF middleweight titlist Arthur Abraham as the frontrunner for a January 24 return bout, live on HBO. Wright has been inactive since his July 2007 loss to then-light...
Arturo Gatti thinking about a comeback
The photo above? It's my lasting image of Arturo Gatti still. It won't be forever -- in time, the memories of his epic ring wars will overshadow the Canadian Jersey warrior fallen on his knees, holding onto the middle rope, his lip split open by a final 1-2 combo from the entirely unremarkable...
Haye keeps his word, challenges big opponent (I'm lying)
Source: Boxing Scene Remember all that talk from the Haye camp that their man would challenge a top 10 opponent in his jump-slash-return to the heavyweight division? Well, looks like he's working on fighting a massive name and a true danger in his "first" fight past cruiser. Boxing Scene is...
Warren wants to make Barrera-Arthur
Source: Sporting Life British promoter Frank Warren is looking to make a fight between interim WBO super featherweight titleholder Alex Arthur and the recently-unretired Marco Antonio Barrera. This would hinge, of course, on Arthur beating Nicky Cook later today in Manchester. "If Alex does...
Pavlik-Hopkins possible? Change for Mosley-Mayorga?
Steve Kim of Max Boxing is reporting that negotiations between middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik and welterweight titleholder Paul Williams have hit a roadblock, as negotations often do, and that there is now very serious talk of Pavlik taking on 43-year old Bernard Hopkins on October 18, a fight...
Shocker: Calzaghe cooling retirement talk, wants to move back to 168
In a piece of news that I'm sure will stun you all, current light heavyweight/super middleweight world champion Joe Calzaghe is backing off of retirement talk, and holding on to at least his WBO super middleweight title (the one he's defended forever) while considering a move back down to 168...
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