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...after beating Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden to maintain his 46-0 professional record, boxer Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement. Calzaghe hangs up his gloves as the best British boxer of his generation and, arguably, the greatest British champ of all time. Calzaghe, who held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts during his 16-year career, said he had thought "long and hard" about retiring but insisted it was the correct decision. Trained by his father Enzo, Calazaghe captured his first world title in 1997, beating fellow Brit Chris Eubank, and went on to defend...
...This was the third heavyweight title fight in Moscow in the last year, since the current wave of homegrown boxers has overtaken the division. An ex-Soviet fighter holds each of the four heavyweight championship belts: Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko (IBF), Kazak Oleg Maskaev (WBC), Uzbek Ruslan Chagaev (WBA), and the Russian Ibragimov...
...until I'm speaking so people don't understand me?" Lewis is expected to announce his plans in the coming weeks, and a line of challengers is forming. But will he bother to fight any of them? A mandatory defense of his ibf title is due against Chris Byrd, wba holder John Ruiz is also waiting and there is the young Ukrainian WBO holder Wladimir Klitschko. Lewis may have lost some motivation, but he hasn't lost his financial sense. "If they want me to fight those guys they're gonna have to pay me money just...
...Anyone who gets the job can't be a lightweight. While the government has made similar moves to rid groups such as the Teamsters of corruption, few industries are as unwieldy as boxing. Critics say that the gaggle of international sanctioning bodies (IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA) that have arisen in the past few decades have created an environment where fighters and promoters can bribe their way up the rankings ladders and accountability has disappeared. While some believe that the sport's powers have become too big and decentralized to regulate, prosecutors hope they can prove another old boxing adage...
...Finally, and no, this is not a misprint, 5,000-year-old man Roberto Duran has a title fight at the Las Vegas Hilton against WBA middleweight champion, William Joppy...