British heavyweight boxer David Haye is to fight the giant 7'2" Russian, Nikolai Valuev. Most observers regard the match up as a re-run of David v Goliath from the Old Testament. Does David stand a chance? Our boxing correspondent Lefty Hook to...
Bent boxing promoter with vertical hairstyle, Don King, today told assembled ranks of pressmen that he was looking to promote a super-middleweight World's Best Fighting Footballer bout between David Beckham and Steven Gerrard. Speaking outside Liv...
NEW YORK CITY - Donald Trump Enterprises has announced that they will be sponsoring The First Annual Donald Trump Celebrity Boxing Matches. Trump said that he signed a deal with NBC to televise the boxing matches which will be shown live from Mad...
Former boxing champion Terry 'Boom-Boom' Minter has announced from his training HQ in Torquay, Devon, that he is now back up to speed and fighting fit. All he needs is a promoter and an opponent. Minter 64 yesterday said: "I'm ready. The traini...
Recently beaten boxer Ricky Hatton has announced that he will be joining Manchester super group Oasis from June as their drummer, in time for a string of summer concerts. The boxer who has spent a great deal of time learning how to drum over the l...
Defeated British boxing legend, Ricky Hatton, has announced in a Press conference in Las Vegas, that after yesterday's loss to Manny Pacquiao, he is to retire from looking glum. The Manchester-based pugilist was trounced at the MGM Grand, but even...
Boxing promoters have announced today that Floyd Mayweather Snr, aged 56, is intending to step back into the boxing ring. What has come as even more of a surprise is that he intends to fight his own son, Floyd Mayweather Jr, aged 32. This is a...
Brave and fearless Mancunian Boxer Ricky Ribs Hatton entertained fans to a pool side party after he was bashed around in the ring on Saturday night by Manny Pacquiao. Hatton went down after receiving a hard blow by Pacquiao in the second round le...
Newcastle United badboy Joey Barton has lay the blame for his extraordinary and unnecessary challenge on Liverpool's Xabi Alonso at Anfield yesterday, squarely at the door of his friend and fellow Manchester City fan, Ricky Hatton. Hatton was beat...
Ricky Hatton, the Manchester-based boxer who was so unceremoniously dumped onto the canvas at the weekend by Filipino pocket dynamo Manny Pacquiao, has said that, in all future championship bouts, he will fight opponents wearing his trusty sunhat.
Tubby funnyman Ricky Gervais was last night knocked flat on his fat arse by Filipino boxer Manny 'Yellow' Pacman in front of 1,000,000 disappointed Reading fans. Gervais, 10 time BAFTA winner and 20 time Golden Globe winner was simply outclassed b...
Amy Winehouse is making a good recovery following her collapse in St Lucia, having been the recipient of a devastating Manny Pacquiao punch. The singer who made it through to the third round against the Filipino boxer had landed some good punches,...
Ricky Hatton has announced his retirement from the world of boxing following his Las Vegas defect by Manny Pacquiao. In a full and frank interview, Hatton described how his training had been limited because of his concerns around the state of the...
Embarrassed Boxer Ricky Hatton has turned to a desperate excuse following his Las Vegas loss to Manny Pacquiao. The Mancunian known as the "Hitman" described how he has recent problems with the chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy, which caused him t...
Disappointment for Ricky 'The Hit Man' Hatton here in Vegas in the early hours as he was flattened, steamrollered, battered into oblivion and knocked clean out by Manny Pacquiao at the MGM Grand Hotel. Self styled 'Hit Man' and avid Manchester Cit...
It was the clash of two game characters in Las Vegas last night, as Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao and Manchester's own Ricky 'Hitman' Hatton battled it out for the world light-welterweight boxing title, and, in the end, it was Pacman who gobbled-up his bat...
Ricky Hatton did himself and his vast army of travelling fans proud here in Las Vegas in the early hours, when the Manchester-based boxer came to within a hairs-breadth of beating Manny Pacquiao in their light-welterweight championship bout at the MG...
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