Tszyu retains IBF junior welterweight title
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IBF junior welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu beat Sharmba Mitchell to retain his title in Glendale, Arizona, on Saturday. Tszyu knocked Mitchell, a former title holder, down four times, three in the third round.
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Glen Johnson knocked out Roy Jones Jr. in the ninth round Saturday to hold on to the IBF light heavyweight title and cast more doubt on the future of one of boxing&#39;s most outstanding performers.
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HEAVYWEIGHT contender Mark Latham lost the biggest fight of his life but his ladder of opportunity still lives in the career of Kostya Tszyu.
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Bantamweight Gary Russell Jr. defeats Rudolf Dydi of Slovakia, 13-6, in the first bout of the world championships in Chicago.
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Gary Russell Jr. won his bout in the 119-pound division and Raynell Williams won at 125 pounds yesterday to earn the final berths on the United States Olympic boxing team in Houston.The winners in the other nine Olympic weight classes were decided Saturday night: Luis Yanez (106 pounds), Rauâshee Warren (112), Sadam Ali (132), Javier Molina (141), Demetrius Andrade (152), Shawn Estrada (165), Christopher Downs (178), Deontay Wilder (201) and Michael Hunter (201-plus).The world championships will be Oct. 23-Nov. 3 in Chicago. The top eight finishers in each division will qualify for Beijing.
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It was no finish. It was just a reminder that there are more than a few echoes left in the thunder that has been attached to Kostya Tszyu&#39;s nickname, hands and powerful legacy.
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Georges St. Pierre won to take the interim welterweight title Saturday night in the mixed martial card UFC 79, while Chuck Liddell won a light-heavyweight showdown by unanimous decision.
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By Paul Upham, ringside in Phoenix, and pic by Tom Hogan: Undisputed junior welterweight champion Kostya Tszyu entered the post-fight media conference with a beaming smile on his face.
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IBF junior welterweight champ Kostya Tszyu defends his title by pummeling Sharba Mitchell, knocking him down four times and scoring a third-round TKO on Saturday.
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Vic Darchinyan retained his International Boxing Federation flyweight title by stopping game challenger Victor Burgos of Mexico in the 12th round.
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HALL of Fame boxer Jeff Fenech says Kostya Tszyu&#39;s old foe, Sharmba Mitchell, will again be knocked out by the undisputed junior-welterweight champion today because the American has &quot;no heart&quot;.
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The 17-year-old Pakistani Amir Khan, Britain&#39;s only boxer at the Olympic Games, who won the silver, has vowed to go one better at Beijing, four years later.
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Intense Kostya Tszyu, showing no side-effects of 22 months without a fight, devastated Sharmba Mitchell with his full arsenal to retain the WBC/ IBF junior welterweight titles on a third-round knockout Saturday night in the Glendale, Arz.
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Yan Varela wins the light flyweight division as Cuba get ready for a day of boxing glory.
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BAN RAI, Thailand  - Panamanian Celestino Caballero won the WBA super-bantamweight title on Wednesday after a third-round demolition of champion Somsak Sithchatchawal at a Buddhist temple in rural Thailand.
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Local boxer Gary Russell  Jr. inches closer to qualifying for next year's Beijing Olympics with win at the World Boxing Championships.
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International Boxing Federation super lightweight champion Kostya Tszyu says he only wants &#39;big fights&#39; in the future. Speaking after he had claimed a third-round TKO of American Sharmba Mitchell in Phoenix