Light Heavyweight Boxing News

Tavoris Cloud celebrates his win with Don King after defending his IBF light-heavyweight title recently.

Boxing's once-hallowed middleweight division has fallen on lean times since Bernard Hopkins , who set a record with 20 consecutive title defenses, moved up to light-heavyweight six years ago.

ESPN.com reported that WBA, WBC and The Ring super middleweight champion Andre "Son of God" Ward was voted Monday the 2011 "Fighter of the Year" by the Boxing Writers Association of America .

A is responding to pre-fight interviews with South Africa's WBC #6, WBA #13, and WBO #14-rated Isaac "Golden Boy" Chilemba, whom he will face in the 10-round light heavyweight main event of this Friday's ESPN Friday Night Fights broadcast from the Dallas Events Center at the Texas Station Gambling Hall & Hotel in Las Vegas.

The Ring and WBC light heavyweight titlist Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins will fight "Bad" Chad Dawson in a rematch slated for April 28 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Today a Louisville legend celebrated his 70th birthday. Muhammad Ali is one of the most well-known figures in the boxing world.

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