Topic: Professional Boxing
Having beaten WBO challenger Eddie Chambers, double world heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko says he is now ready to face mandatory IBF challenger Alexander Povetkin to defend his titles. Klitschko, who turns 34 on March 25, knocked out Chambers of the United States with five seconds left of the 12th round in Duesseldorf on Saturday night to retain his WBO belt ...
World heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko defended his WBO and IBF titles on Saturday with a 12th-round knockout of challenger Eddie Chambers from the United States. This was Klitschko's eighth defence of his IBF title, the fourth defence of the WBO title he won against Sultan Ibragimov in New York in February 2008 and he was rarely troubled by the ...
World heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko defended his WBO and IBF titles on Saturday with a 12th-round knockout of challenger Eddie Chambers from the United States.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - No trash-talking, no tempers boiling over at the weigh-in. The build-up to Saturday's Vladimir Klitschko-Eddie Chambers world heavyweight fight in Duesseldorf has so far been all about boxing. Champion Klitschko takes on American contender Chambers with the WBO, IBF, IBO belts on the line and the 33-year-old Ukrainian favorite wary of his younger challenger's speed. "Eddie ...
