David Haye will make the first defense of the WBA world heavyweight against John Ruiz in Manchester on April 3. The 29-year-old British fighter, also a former world cruiserweight champion, captured the heavyweight crown from Russia's Nikolai Valuev in November in Germany. Haye will ...

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will challenge Francois Botha for the lightly regarded WBF title in Uganda on Jan. 16. Organizers of the fight in Kampala's Nambole Stadium said on Thursday that both fighters had signed contracts. A turnout of about 80,000 fans ...

KIEV (Reuters) - WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko has reached a preliminary agreement to fight Britain's WBA champion David Haye, the Ukrainian was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Klitschko easily retained his WBC world heavyweight title on Saturday, winning a unanimous points decision against American challenger Kevin Johnson. Haye won the WBA belt from Russian Nikolai Valuev in November and ...

New world heavyweight champion David Haye said his title defence against John Ruiz would be like another cruiserweight contest after he took the WBA title off the giant Nikolai Valuev. The 29-year-old Briton scored a majority decision verdict after taking the 2.13m tall, 143kg Russian the full twelve-round distance, using his superior speed to stay away from his opponent ...