Topic: Professional Boxing
Houston-based fighter Adam Richards arrived in Berlin ten-hours later than expected after a marathon journey as he prepares to face WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck. The 29-year-old finally arrived in Berlin late on Monday having missed his connecting flight at Amsterdam's Schipol airport ahead of Saturday's world title fight with Huck. The 10-hour delay caused Richards' management a ...
World champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his WBC heavyweight title against European champion Albert Sosnowski on May 29 at Bundesliga side Schalke 04's Veltins Arena, it was announced on Tuesday. This will be the 38-year-old Klitschko's fourth defence of the title he won against Samuel Peter in October 2008. The 31-year-old Sosnowski, who is based in Britain, has ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Poland's Albert Sosnowski in Schalke's soccer stadium on May 29, the Ukrainian said on Tuesday. The 38-year-old Klitschko, whose brother Vladimir will defend his WBO,IBF and IBO titles against Eddie Chambers on March 20, said Sosnowski, 31, would be a tough rival. "He is ...
Giant Russian Nikolay Valuev insisted Friday he is ready to face WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, describing it as a fight everyone is desperate to see. "I want to fight Vitali. It will be an interesting fight that everybody in the boxing world has been waiting for many years to see," Valuev told the Bild newspaper. Valuev and Klitschko ...
