Just hours after going on sale, tickets for the ‘The Dream Match’ between Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao have sold out. The 12-round welterweight super fight will take place at the 16,000 capacity MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on December 6 and the sales have produced a gross gate of $17million [...]
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Amir Khan will bank on the experience of top American trainer Freddie Roach to get his career back on track after his stunning 54 second knockout defeat to Breidis Prescott in Manchester earlier this month. Khan spent the weekend at Roach’s famous Wild Card gym in Los Angeles and although his team remain coy about [...]
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On the eve of what could be Great Britain’s most successful boxing return at an Olympic Games since 1972, acrimony, controversy and accusation hung over the team after a row broke out between the GB head coach in Beijing and the Amateur Boxing Association. The dispute centres around the suspension of teenage boxer Billy Joe [...]
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Olympic gold medallist James DeGale has backed Amir Khan to recover from his defeat by Breidis Prescott and return a genuine world title contender. Degale was one of the guests of honour in Manchester as Khan was stopped in 54 seconds by the Colombian. But Degale, who knows Khan well from the amateur scene, said: [...]
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