Larry Hazzard’s C.O.M.B.A.T.T. Award Ceremonies will be held on Tuesday, April 6th at the Robert Treat Hotel in Newark, N.J.

This years honorees are former multi-time World Champions Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard, the IBF International Heavyweight Champion and former Cruiserweight Champion Tomasz Adamek, New York State Athletic Commission Director of Boxing Ralph Petrillo, New York Daily News Manager of Community Affairs and New York …

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When I look at the middleweight division today it doesn’t inspire me to be honest. Pavlik, Williams and Martinez are trying their hardest to bring it back to life with their round robin of fights but looking at The Ring‘s top 10 middleweights it isn’t filled with marquee names.

Yes there are hot prospects waiting in the wings to come and add glamour back to what was one of boxing’s premier …

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The whole interim champion, champion, super champion thing was always a terrible concept. It just creates confusion and frankly is another scheme of boxing’s governing bodies to make money but with the WBA junior welterweight title picture we could be in for a treat.

Last year when unheralded Marcos Maidana blasted Golden Boy prospect Victor Ortiz into submission for the WBA interim junior welterweight title it forced …

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Michael Sprott has vowed to make quick of Audley Harrison when the two British heavyweights meet on April 9th.

In a rematch of their 2007 bout in which Sprott stopped the Olympian in the 3rd round, the two will meet for the vacant European heavyweight title. There is no love lost between the …

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David Haye’s impending first defence of his WBA title poses a risk that makes this the most important fight of the 29-year-old Brit’s career.

The inbuilt dangers for Haye in this defence though aren’t just that Ruiz is a seasoned boxer who has fought at world level for over 10 years now and has 44 wins to his name, but the fact that there is no rematch clause within the bout. …

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Olympic gold medalist Audley Harrison has cautioned David Haye ahead of his title bout with John Ruiz this Saturday.

Harrison says if Haye isn’t 100% ahead of the first defence of his WBA crown he could be in for a long night against the ‘Quiet Man’ according to BoxingScene.Com.

Speaking ahead of his own bout with

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Whilst the fall out from Saturday’s Super 6 bout is still going on, one thing remains obviously clear and that is throughout’ the whole episode, ‘King’ Arthur Abraham and his team has shown very little class.

Abraham was getting beaten soundly, and although Dirrell had slowed down following a knockdown wrongly adjudged as a slip in the previous round he was well …

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Following reports that Edwin Valero was arrested for the assault of his wife last week, Jhonny Gonzalez of BoxingScene.Com is reporting that no charges will be brought against the 2 weight world champion.

Valero’s wife Jennifer Carolina has refused to press charges against her husband, instead claiming that she sustained her injuries from falling down the stairs and Valero’s mother Eloíza Vivas is repeating the same story.

Valero has been in trouble with the law before including an altercation with his mother.

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Entering his bout with Arthur Abraham on Saturday night, Andre Dirrell, a native of Flint, Michigan, was a 2-1 underdog, although some people even considered him a greater underdog. Dirrell showed his critics that he was a much better fighter by putting on a brilliant boxing exhibition in front of his hometown fans at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, …

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Andre Dirrell may have come up on the short end of a 12 round split decision loss against Carl Froch, but he will have an opportunity to redeem himself when he faces Arthur Abraham in the 2nd Group Stage of Showtime’s “Super Six” Tournament. It seemed Dirrell had done enough to earn a decision victory over Carl Froch. …

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