Heavyweight Boxing News

Danny Williams' headline fight with Sam Sexton in Watford has been cancelled. The conquerer of Mike Tyson was set to take on Commonwealth heavyweight champion Sexton on Sunday at the Colosseum but a cut in sparring has postponed the showdown.

Australian heavyweight Kali Meehan will take on Ruslan Chagaev for the World Boxing Association's interim heavyweight championship.

Zsolt Erdei of Hungary won the WBC cruiserweight title with a majority decision over Giacobbe Fragomeni on Saturday night.

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.

The great "Smokin'" Joe Frazier has joined a growing list of confirmed boxing legends attending the Dec.

You don't get to be heavyweight champion of the world without steely resolution, a hunger for success and an appetite for hard graft.

Save a chair, folks. John Ruiz is sidling back to the heavyweight title table. Already a veteran of 10 championship bouts and one of history's select few with multiple bites of the division's fractured pie -- the "Quiet Man" will meet his verbal converse when he shares a ring with newly minted WBA belt- holder David Haye sometime between now and ...

" 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.

Valuev Defend's Don King on Decision to Fight Haye Posted by A. Shakoor on 11.19.2009 Doe Camp Valuev regret taking the Haye fight? Nikolai Valuev has come out in support of his American promoter, Don King, on the dispute of whether King wanted Valuev to take the David Haye fight.

Prosecutors are considering whether to charge former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and a photographer with battery following a scuffle at LAX.

The comparatively tiny British fighter ran rings around his 7ft opponent and claimed the WBA heavyweight crown, in a contest of strength and agility.

Dubai has, in recent years, found itself being compared to Las Vegas. But when the UAE's first professional fighter made his debut on March 24, 2007, the hope was that the Emirates could grow into a boxing hub to rival the American city.

Prosecutors have begun investigating whether to charge ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and a photographer for a scuffle at Los Angeles International Airport.

Will David Haye the new World Heavyweight Champion be good for British Boxing? And my boxing aspirations.... It seems like David Haye becoming World Heavyweight Champion has certainly captured your imagination, more so than a relatively meaningless friendly for England against Brazil but opinion was divided on the show as to the merits of Haye's ...

Sometimes it's easy to tell who the naturally bigger man is in a boxing match. Last Saturday, England's David Haye lifted the WBA heavyweight championship from Russia's Nicolay Valuev on a 12-round, majority decision in Nuremberg, Germany.

Will this seed of interest bring a younger generation into the fold, or will this be the last stand of a legendary sport? Over the last decade, the sport of boxing has been on a rapid fan base freefall.

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.

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

The face of boxing today is a tattooed police mug shot. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson no longer fights in a sanctioned ring, yet his criminal reputation and name recognition resonate throughout the world - whether he is involved in an airport scuffle with a photographer, as he was this week in Los Angeles, or appearing on Oprah's show, ...