5:55 p.m. -- The chorus of critics who insisted this fight would end in farce ... well, they were right. But nobody could have foreseen this. To be sure, Holyfield never dominated the action against ...

Nikolai Valuev, WBA Heavyweight Champion of the world, had just knocked out Monte Barrett in the eleventh round and everybody around him was in a celebratory and jovial mood. Don King was cackling ...

To watch Nikolai Valuev prepare to strip down and weigh in for the final time was to watch a man attempt and fail to find a hiding place inside his own body, writes Elliot Worsell Nikolai Valuev, a ...

One very brief press release sent to media across the boxing world by German promoter Wilfried Sauerland and a couple of quotes in the Russian media on Wednesday set off a near frenzy with the ...

A lack of top talent has made big heavyweight fights a thing of the past. And these days the inability of rival promoters to make big deals with each other has made it impossible to make palatable ...

ZURICH (AP) Nikolai Valuev probably ended Evander Holyfield’s last chance at winning a fifth heavyweight championship, narrowly defending his World Boxing Association title by a majority decision on ...

Former boxing world champion Nikolai Valuev has been hospitalised in Russia, weeks after he was drafted to fight in Ukraine. Russian state media reports that the 7-foot (213 cm) colossus, who once ...

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ZURICH, Switzerland — Nikolai Valuev likely ended Evander Holyfield’s last chance at winning a fifth heavyweight title, narrowly defending his WBA title by majority decision Saturday night. The ...

BERLIN — Different date, similar story: the second fight between Russian giant Nikolai Valuev and John Ruiz in Berlin also ended with a judging controversy. And the same outcome. Valuev regained the ...

Evander Holyfield has accepted an offer to challenge Nikolai Valuev for his heavyweight world title, the former four-time champion told ESPN.com Wednesday night. Holyfield (42-9-2, 27 KOs) said his ...

BERLIN — Different date, similar story: the second fight between Russian giant Nikolai Valuev and John Ruiz in Berlin also ended with a judging controversy. And the same outcome. Valuev regained the ...