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S. African leader won’t appear at Tyson banquet ANC leader Jacob Zuma withdrew from a charity fundraising banquet honoring former boxer Mike Tyson Wednesday after receiving criticism from women’s groups in South Africa.

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S. African leader won’t appear at Tyson banquet ANC leader Jacob Zuma withdrew from a charity fundraising banquet honoring former boxer Mike Tyson Wednesday after receiving criticism from women’s groups in South Africa.

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Lawyer accuses boxing commission of wrongdoing A lawyer for Joey Gilbert, fighting allegations the suspended boxer took banned drugs, is accusing the head of the Nevada Athletic Commission of tampering with an expert witness and defaming the Reno middleweight with false statements.

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Biggest Doubleheader Of 2008 Set A second light heavyweight world title fight has been added to the April 12 edition of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING, Ken Hershman, senior vice president and general manager, Sports & Event Programming, SHOWTIME announced today. IBF light heavyweight champion […]

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Too Much Povetkin For Chambers There is yet one more Russian battleship on the horizon in the heavyweight division and in this engagement he simply had too much firepower for his American counterpart. Undefeated Alexander Povetkin captured an IBF heavyweight elimination title bout […]

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Glenn “The Filipino Bomber” Donaire Returns Let’s Get It On Promotions is pleased to announce that former world title challenger, Glenn “The Filipino Bomber” Donaire will be billed as the co-main event on their WAR FOR THE WEST card on February 22nd 2008. […]

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Indonesia featherweight retains WBA title in 7 Indonesia’s Yohannes Christian John retained his WBA featherweight title by stopping Roinet Caballero of Panama in the seventh round Saturday.

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One more time: Vazquez, Marquez set for Round 3 Last year’s two junior featherweight championship fights between Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez were explosive, memorable slugfests. Now, the rubber match, dubbed “Final Confrontation,” is officially on.

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Arum eyeing Pavlik’s first title defense in June Middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik has a rematch on Feb. 16 with former champion Jermain Taylor and it will take place at 166 pounds.

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Jones-Trinidad bout exceeds PPV expectations Former world champions Roy Jones and Felix Trinidad may be past their primes, but they’re still stars and boxing fans still love them.

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