Spinks junior middleweight title defense postponed (AP)
Junior middleweight titleholder Cory Spinks’ defense against Cornelius Bundrage has been postponed. Spinks (37-5, 11 KOs) was supposed to defend his title in his hometown of St. Louis on June 12, but promoter Don King said Wednesday that conflicting interests forced him to move the bout to a future card.
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Boxing returns to the ballpark in the Bronx (AP)
Yuri Foreman is the junior middleweight champion, an aspiring rabbi with an engaging back story. The drawing card is Miguel Cotto, the revered former titleholder beloved by millions of Puerto Rican fans. It’s possible that neither will be the star Saturday night. That’s because their title fight is at Yankee Stadium, the first time baseball’s winningest team has hosted boxing since…
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Arum gets his Take 2 in Foreman-Cotto (Yahoo! Sports)
Bob Arum believes Saturday’s bout could redeem his dreams of stadium boxing after the 1976 debacle.
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Retired heavyweight Nielsen to make comeback (AP)
Danish heavyweight Brian Nielsen is coming out of retirement at age 45. Promoter Kalle Sauerland says Nielsen has signed a deal for a comeback fight later this year, possibly in November. Sauerland said no opponent had been lined up, but Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet says Nielsen could fight 47-year-old former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield.
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Foreman puts distractions aside before fight (AP)
Junior middleweight champ Yuri Foreman says he won’t let anything distract him from his fight against Miguel Cotto on Saturday night. That’s not necessarily as easy as it sounds. It will be the first fight at the new Yankee Stadium, headline a card televised by HBO, and come just hours after the end of the Sabbath.
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Foreman’s progress astounds (Yahoo! Sports)
Yuri Foreman has improved faster than anyone could have predicted.
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Mailbag: Give Klitschkos some credit (Yahoo! Sports)
The underappreciated Ukrainian siblings have shown more toughness than their critics believe.
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Vitali Klitschko KOs Sosnowski, keeps title (AP)
Vitali Klitschko of Ukraine defended his WBC heavyweight championship belt Saturday night with a 10th-round knockout of Albert Sosnowski of Poland. Klitschko improved his record to 42-2 (38 KOs) after the ring referee called the 12-round bout following a left-right combination to Sosnowski’s head at the 2 minute, 30 second mark of the 10th round.
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Klitschko beats Sosnowski in 10th-round TKO (Reuters)
Vitali Klitschko beat challenger Albert Sosnowski by technical knock-out Saturday.
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Andrade stops Lucas in super middleweight fight (AP)
Super middleweight Librado Andrade earned a win Friday night when Eric Lucas was unable to continue in the eighth round because of a cut over his left eye. Andrade (29-3, 22 KOs) was leading on all three scorecards when referee Michael Griffin stopped the fight on the advice of the ringside physician.
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Mbaye takes vacant WBA interim welterweight belt (AP)
Souleymane Mbaye of France has earned a unanimous decision over Antonin Decarie of Canada to win a vacant interim welterweight title. Mbaye knocked down Decarie in the fourth round and won all three judges’ scorecards. Jose Ignacio Martinez and John Coyle scored the bout 116-113, and Pierluigi Poppi had it 116-112.
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Tomasz Adamek to fight Michael Grant in Newark (AP)
Former cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek will fight Michael Grant on Aug. 21 at the Prudential Center in his fourth fight at heavyweight. Main Events and Ziggy Promotions, along with X-Cel Worldwide, announced the fight Friday. After beating Chris Arreola in a slugfest in his last outing, Adamek had hoped to get a title shot against David Haye or either of the Klitschko brothers, Wladimir or…
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Klitschko to have size advantage in title fight (AP)
Heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will have a significant size advantage when he defends his title Saturday night against Albert Sosnowski. The WBC titleholder weighed 247 pounds on Friday, while Sosnowski weighed 224. The fight at Veltins Arena will be the fifth for Klitschko (39-2, 37 KOs) since he returned from an injury that sidelined him most of four years.
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Don’t blame champ for lack of contenders (Yahoo! Sports)
It isn’t Vitali Klitschko’s fault he’s fighting Albert Sosnowski in this era.
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Cotto gets Hall of Fame help before Yankee Stadium (AP)
Miguel Cotto has sold more tickets to boxing events in New York City over the past decade than anyone. The Puerto Rican star has won titles in two weight divisions, and long ago stamped himself as one of the most exciting fighters of his generation. Yet all that success didn’t mean much when he hooked up with Manny Steward a couple of months ago.
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