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Dmitri Salita has waited patiently for his first world title opportunity and it will not be long now. Newly crowned WBA Junior Welterweight champ Amir Khan must face the #1…

PROVIDENCE (July 30, 2009) – Jimmy Burchfield’s Classic Entertainment and Sports, Inc. (CES) has announced that it will promote three professional boxing cards, in three different states, within 10 days…

California, PA (July 30, 2009) – Roy “Big Roy” Jones Sr. is spending his second consecutive camp with Roy “Captain Hook” Jones Jr. in California, PA. Alton “Coach” Merkerson, Jones…

NEW YORK (July 31, 2009)—Undefeated super middleweight Andre “S.O.G.” Ward will share the stage with his first Super Six World Boxing Classic™ opponent Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler on a special…

HOLLYWOOD, FL, July 31 – Another exciting season of ESPN2’s Friday Night Fights will come to a close on Friday, August 28th, and Seminole Warriors Boxing has made sure that…

ATLANTA, July 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Answering the surge in violent crime, most recently the tragic murder of former world welterweight boxing champion Vernon Forrest, State Senator Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta) launched…

Fairfax, VA (July 29, 2009) – Ice Promotions announced today that Jimmy Lange (30-3-2, 21 KOs) will return to the ring Saturday, September 26, 2009 at the Patriot Center to…

NEW YORK (July 28, 2009)—Talented World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight champion Mikkel “Viking Warrior’’ Kessler of Copenhagen, Denmark, will make his eagerly awaited debut on SHOWTIME earlier than expected.…

CALIFORNIA, PA (July 28, 2009) – Roy “Captain Hook” Jones Jr. is in training camp in California, PA, thirty minutes south of Pittsburgh preparing for his August 15 “Hook City”…

BILOXI, Miss. (July 27, 2009) – In “Hook City,” two of boxing’s dominating left hookers, 8-time world champion Roy Jones Jr. and 2-time world champion Jeff Lacy, go to battle…

HBO Sports presents ASSAULT IN THE RING, a documentary about the ill-fated junior middleweight bout between Billy Collins Jr. and Luis Resto and its subsequent effect on both boxers. Debuting…

EW YORK (July 27, 2009) – Crafty former light heavyweight world champion Antonio Tarver will join ShoBox: The New Generation announcers Nick Charles and Steve Farhood as a guest commentator…

ATLANTA, GA (July 26, 2009) -- Former two-division world champion VERNON FORREST was shot and killed last night in Northwest Atlanta. "This is a tragedy beyond belief," said Gary Shaw,…