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Alistair Overeem overcomes adversity to score TKO win over Walt Harris Alistair Overeem celebrated his 40th birthday with a big win over “The Big Ticket” Walt Harris on Saturday night. It wasn’t a walk in the park for the Dutchman, however. In the first round, Overeem had to dig deep into his reserves after being floored early on. Harris, who ...

Derek Chisora believes former unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, 44-years-old, could still be a force in the weight class. Klitschko decided to retire in 2017, a few months following his stoppage loss at the hands of Anthony Joshua. Klitschko had initially exercised an immediate rematch clause, but then backed away from that scenario and decided to call it a day. "Wladimir is ...

According to Evander Holyfield, there have been discussions with Mike Tyson's team with respect to a potential exhibition clash. The two former undisputed heavyweight champions were heated rivals during their respective careers. They first collided in 1996, with Holyfield pulled off a huge upset when he stopped Tyson in the eleventh round. The rematch is more famous than the first, with ...

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down circulating reports that Deontay Wilder revealed that he wants a step-aside fee of $10 million - in order to move away from a contracted trilogy fight. Fury captured the WBC world title in February, when he stopped Wilder in the seventh round at the MGM Grand ...

Shannon Briggs says he has investors interested in making a boxing exhibition between him and Mike Tyson a reality. According to Briggs, the former heavyweight champions are committed to participating in an exhibition that would help raise money to fund a boxing gym in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Briggs, who has long cited Tyson as the inspiration to start ...

Jermell Charlo can’t see any reason why he should have to fight Erickson Lubin again. Charlo knocked out Lubin, his mandatory challenger, with one perfectly executed right hand in the first round of their fight for Charlo’s WBC super welterweight title in October 2017. Lubin is 4-0 since Charlo beat him, however, and is once again the WBC’s number one ...

Bahrain has emerged as a potential player in the big fight business after Daniel Kinahan, the co-founder of MTK Global, was announced as a special adviser to a group set up to bring combat sports to the oil-rich Middle East state. Kinahan, who lives in Dubai, has become a special adviser to KHK Sports, an organisation set up by Khalid ...

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has given high praise to UFC superstar Conor McGregor for his boxing performance against Floyd Mayweather. McGregor made his boxing debut back in August of 2017, when he faced Mayweather in a junior middleweight contest at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McGregor started well in the early rounds, before Mayweather began to break ...

The WBO super bantamweight world champion, Emanuel Navarrete, intensified his preparation before the possibility of returning to the ring in June and ruled out the view that fighting without an audience is something negative for him. In fact, he chooses to see it as a golden opportunity in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Navarrete is one of the fighters who have been ...

Eddie Hearn says he is planning to stage a series of fight nights in the garden of the house where he grew up in Essex. The Matchroom headquarters in Brentwood are in what used to be the home of Hearn’s father, Barry, the Matchroom founder, and is situated in 15 acres of grounds off a country lane. Hearn says he ...