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Boxing: Early finish on cards as Britain's best collide
Saturday 08 March 2008
Enzo Maccarinelli and David Haye are the finest pair of cruiserweights around but blink and you may well miss their fight early tomorrow morning, writes Steve Bunce
Boxing: Battle of Brits should be a belter but will it be worth the weight for Haye?
Sunday 02 March 2008
Favourite may be cruising for a bruising as Maccarinelli talks tough ahead of domestic dispute that is too close to call. By Alan Hubbard
Boxing: Klitschko's victory leaves New Yorkers unimpressed
Monday 25 February 2008
It was, like most heavyweight title fights, not a classic, but Vladimir Klitschko won a rare unification title fight on Saturday night. The crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York know a thing or two about the heavyweight game and they were not impressed with Klitschko's safety-first – but still wide – points victory over Sultan Ibragimov.
Boxing: Skelton has the bulk and skill to shock Chagaev
Saturday 19 January 2008
Matt Skelton is not sure if he is fighting the worst heavyweight champion in the sport's history or the saviour of a desperate division in Dusseldorf tonight.
Final heroics will not stop Larsson's homecoming
Friday 19 May 2006
Henrik Larsson's introduction made the decisive difference in winning the European Cup for Barcelona but the Swedish striker remained adamant after the match that he will quit the club and return home this summer.
Boxing: Lewis tempted by £20m comeback offer
Monday 24 January 2005
Nobody really knows when Lennox Lewis decided that retirement was boring and that the pull of the ring was too much to resist. It seems that on Friday last week, at a trendy bar in Jamaica's Montego Bay, Lewis told a journalist that he was returning to boxing.
Boxing: Beard row is a storm in a shaving cup for Williams
Thursday 09 December 2004
It turns out that the threat to the big fight here on Saturday night was more than anything a storm in a shaving cup. Danny Williams, Britain's challenger to the World Boxing Council champion Vitali Klitschko, said that if necessary he would withdraw from the contest if he was required to shave, or even trim, his beard contrary to his Muslim beliefs.
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