Title fight underdog is coming on strong
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He is a sizable underdog in Saturday night&#39;s heavyweight title fight, and it&#39;s no mystery why. Danny Williams, by all accounts, is taking a major step up in class.
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- Stephanie Usrey strode up to her local Wal-Mart store the other morning with the steely look of a boxer about to step into the ring.
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Winky Wright toiled for years in boxing's minor leagues, patiently waiting for his big chance. Even when he won a piece of the 154-pound title, not many in the sport paid much attention. Then Wright beat Shane Mosley, and everything changed. Suddenly, his name was in the mix among the Trinidads, De La Hoyas and Hopkins who bring big money to the table.
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Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - When Vitali Klitschko defends his WBC title for the first time against Brit Danny Williams Saturday night, it will mark the heaviest combined weight for a heavyweight title fight.
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Vitali Klitschko wanted to establish himself Saturday as the clear leader of the heavyweight division. He did that with a four-knockdown blowout of a game but overmatched Danny Williams, knocking down the
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Scott Kazmir already is coming through with flashy wins against famous foes.
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Vitali Klitschko proved too strong for Danny Williams as he retained his world championship crown in Las Vegas last night. Williams vowed to continue boxing despite being outclassed by Klitschko.
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Tito Ortiz, who will face Rashad Evans in UFC 73, is not backing away from his persona as a bad boy, but he has matured a lot outside of the octagon.
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Tonight will be a busy one on the local fight scene with two cards. At the Bayside Expo Center, Ray Oliveira will take on Hicklet Lau for the vacant International Boxing Union welterweight title. On the same card, heavyweight prospect Matt Godfrey (4-0, 2 KOs) of Providence will face Andrew Hutchinson.
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Much like Muhammad Ali before him, heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko isn&#39;t afraid to take a political stance. By Joe Cavaretta, AP.
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No matter how athletically gifted an aspiring young boxer may be, if the kid can&#39;t take the physical demands of training or the pain and punishment that is dished out in the ring, he or she won&#39;t last very long in the fight game.
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Boxers relish the idea of fighting in front of their hometown crowd. It's an opportunity for them to soak up the adoration of a throng of loving fans, while showing all those past doubters why they were wrong.
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Let&#39;s face it, there are not a lot of attractive matchups these days in boxing&#39;s heavyweight division. There are four different champions, and, arguably, only one of them can be considered legitimate.
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NEW YORK - After preliminaries stuffed with enough lawsuits and trash-talk to make Don King proud, the first of TV's battling boxing series threw some real punches on Tuesday.    Fox's "The Next Great Champ" takes 12 amateur boxers and has them compete for a contract with Oscar De La Hoya's promotional company and a title fight within the World Boxing Organization...
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IT WAS typical of the trend of the match that it should finish this way. There was a power threat lurking from early on in a contest that took an age to warm up.
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advantage. Already he has beaten Russia&#39;s Evgeny Makarenko, the two-time defending world champ, who arrived at the Games with a bulging rsum.
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Andrew Golota has been in his fair share of wars in the ring, and whether he has it in him to endure another remains to be seen. Not that I expect his bout with John Ruiz to be one.