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Smith: Boxing facing Ultimate test

The MGM Grand in Las Vegas hosted UFC 91, a mixed martial arts extravaganza, last week, and the promoters hauled in a $5 million gate. Meanwhile, for the Paulie Malignaggi-Ricky Hatton on Saturday night, ticket sales are sluggish.

Boxing: Kevin Mitchell on Ricky Hatton's fight with Paulie Malignaggi

It is nearly a year since Floyd Mayweather Jnr landed the perfect left-hook counter to Ricky Hatton's tired chin in one terrible round on one terrible night in Las Vegas and reminded him of the dangerous subtleties of his...

Chris Mannix: Back on the map, Taylor should focus on staying there

1. Kelly Pavlik (34-1): Still the cream of the middleweight crop, Pavlik can make everyone forget the Hopkins fight with a strong 2009. It's a little shocking that it took him a one-sided pounding of former super middleweight...

Pandora: Opik's anti-terror crusade continues

He may be down but the man's not out: having lost out on the Liberal Democrat presidency, Lembit Opik has no intention of going quietly. Opik, who was beaten into second place by Baroness Ros Scott despite an expensive and...

"The Rise and Decline of the Sweet Science"

If you’ve ever wondered how boxing superstars like Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Oscar De La Hoya, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Pernell Whitaker, Marvin Hagler and Roberto Duran would have done against...

US elite join race for Calzaghe

Jermain Taylor and Glen Johnson have joined the ever-growing list of boxers desperate to keep light-heavyweight king Joe Calzaghe out of retirement. Veteran and respected contender Johnson issued an open letter saying he would...

Boxing: Lennox Lewis should return to ring, says Emanuel Steward

Lennox Lewis, who is now 43, sits ringside for Joe Calzaghe's fight with Roy Jones Jr. Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images Lennox Lewis' former trainer Emanuel Steward said last night that he hoped the erstwhile...

A potential reading list for sports fans

Alonzo Mourning was the tallest author at the Miami Book Fair on Sunday. Mourning came downtown to sign copies of his new biography, Resilience, in which he writes with typical Zo passion and bluntness about his difficult...

Can tech give us the 1 000-run ODI?

That was March 2006. But one person who felt that the shift from bowler to batsman was irreversible was Barry Richards, himself one of the all-time great openers. All the rule changes, the power plays and things, have just made...

Renaissance man: NAU football player helps run media entity

Cyrus Igono needed a second love. Igono, a senior safety on the NAU football team, was driving himself nuts with his obsession for football, the sport he had played his entire life. He was stressing about every little detail...

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