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Michael Watson Michael Watson was born on 15th March 1965 at Mother’s Hospital in Clapton. The previous year, aged only twenty, his mother,

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Born as Vitali Volomyrovych Klitschko on 19th July 1971 in Belovodsk, Krgyzstan, to father Vladimir Rodionovic Klitschko and mother Nadezhda

    Fury-Wilder 3 T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas 09th October 2021  WBC Heavyweight Title   Official Weight: 277 pounds/125.66 Kg (Fu

  Fury-Wilder 2 MGM Grand, Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas 22nd February 2020  WBC Heavyweight Title   Official Weight: 273 pounds/1

Fury-Wilder 1 Staples Center, Los Angeles  01st December 2018 WBC Heavyweight Title   Official Weight: 256 pounds/116.12 Kg (Fur

Felix Trinidad Felix Juan Trinidad was born in Cupey Alto, not far from his residence of San Juan, Puerto Rico on 10th January 1973. He made

Sunday morning, 14th March 2021, I’m lying in bed and click open the Sky Sports App on my phone , going straight to the boxing page to look

Michael Grant, seen as the heir apparent, was considered by many boxing experts to be a serious threat to Lennox Lewis's crown. Standing at

13th March 1999, Madison Square Garden, New York Undisputed Heavyweight Title Evander Holyfield (WBA & IBF Champion) Vs Lennox Lewis (WBC Ch

Lennox Lewis hired the services of long time admirer and Kronk Gym legendary trainer Emanuel Steward, the man working in the opposite corner

On 13th November 1992, the new WBC mandatory contender was at ringside, working as part of the Home Box Office commentary team, to watch Rid

With the European (EBU) heavyweight championship firmly around his waist, it was time to step Lennox Lewis up in class. He faced British cha

In December 2019 I was on a family vacation in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. We visited Mystic Mountain, about five minutes from Dunn's River Falls (

The defending WBC light-middleweight champion won the belt by obliterating the tough Ugandan John Mugabi in a round at the end of March 1990

In January 1977, aged twenty-one, Luigi Minchillo made his professional debut, stopping fellow Italian Silvano Bischeri in the fifth round.