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I awoke Thursday to a press release in my inbox from British promoter Frank Warren announcing a "blockbuster" card (aren't they all?) for June 15 at Wembley Arena in London. The main event, Warren said, would be a heavyweight showdown between England...

Heavyweight titleholder Vitali Klitschko has engaged mandatory challenger Bermane Stiverne in negotiations for their mandatory bout.

The names may change, but the result is always the same: A Wladimir Klitschko win. And that dominance could continue against heavy underdog Francesco Pianeta on Saturday.

Want to perk up interest in the heavyweight division? Match two up-and-coming guys against each other and see what happens. There are good fights to be made, even though most guys want to sit around waiting for a shot at one of the Klitschko broth...

Heavyweights Haye, Charr to fight June 29

Cridstobal Arreola has been considered the best American heavyweight for a long time, but the Mexican-American fighter is still looking for his first world title.

Light heavyweight titlist Nathan Cleverly waited through a five-week delay to face mandatory challenger Robin Krasniqi and is ready to go. The fight was originally scheduled for March 16, but the entire card was postponed because promoter Frank Wa...

On Saturday, Canelo Alvarez will be fighting for more than a couple of leather belts. He'll be fighting for family pride, and he hopes to reel in a big fish -- specifically, a Trout. Two years ago, Austin Trout won his junior middleweight title wi...

Three notes from the fistic world: • Interim junior lightweight titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa is supposed to fight June 8, but it has not been easy for promoter Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and HBO to finalize the opponent. Gamboa is supposed to...

After heavyweight hopeful Robert Helenius polished off former titlist Sergei Liakhovich in a ninth-round knockout win in August 2011, he was red-hot and being discussed as a possible future challenger for either of the heavyweight champion brothers, ...

Former heavyweight title challenger Manuel Charr is due to have knee surgery Wednesday in Cologne, Germany to repair a torn meniscus. Charr scored a second-round knockout of Yakup Saglam in Romania on Feb. 22 in a fight he said he went into with t...

The heavyweight title elimination fight between Cristobal Arreola and Bermane Stiverne -- the winner of which will get a mandatory shot at titleholder Vitali Klitschko -- has been rescheduled for April 27, promoter Dan Goossen told ESPN.com on Wednesday.

Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko's next IBF mandatory challenger was supposed to be the winner of an elimination bout that was ordered between Tomasz Adamek and Kubrat Pulev. The camps had not gotten very far in their discussions to make th...

Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko may not be ready to release their death grip on the heavyweight division just yet, but the next generation of contenders appears capable of bringing class back to the big men.

Wladimir Klitschko, entering his eighth year as heavyweight champion, is supposed to be back in action for defense No. 14 on April 6, although the date might move deeper into the spring. Klitschko has won all 13 of his defenses in dominant fashion...

Heavyweights Cristobal Arreola and Bermane Stiverne will duke it out on March 9 for the right to become the mandatory challenger for titleholder Vitali Klitschko, promoter Dan Goossen announced Wednesday.