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Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson each will receive a guaranteed $30m (pounds 18,750,000) for their heavyweight title rematch on 28 June at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Promoter Don King said the two fighters will share in the receipts from pay-per-view television for the fight if the sales exceed a certain number. He would not reveal that threshold.
Robbie Regan's first defence of his WBO bantamweight title against Colombia's mandatory challenger Jorge Julio, at the Cardiff Ice Rink on 21 June, has been postponed. Regan is suffering from a recurring viral infection.
Ubaldo "Uby" Sacco,the former World Boxing Association junior welterweight champion from Argentina, died on Wednesday of meningitis. He was 41
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