Amir Khan will bid to become a world champion for the first time in June when he steps up a division to take on WBA light-welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik.

Promoter Frank Warren will go “back to the drawing board” to plan Amir Khan’s route to a world title after the youngster’s impressive victory over Marco Antonio Barrera on Saturday night.

Amir Khan took a huge step towards a world title shot with an excellent fifth-round technical decision win over bloodied legend Marco Antonio Barrera.

Amir Khan’s high-profile clash with Marco Antonio Barrera will go ahead on March 14 as planned after a medical examination confirmed the Mexican legend will be fit to box.

Ricky Hatton will face Manny Pacquiao in one of the most lucrative fights of 2009 after the Filipino fighter finally signed a contract following weeks of uncertainty.

Ricky Hatton believes he can prolong his career by becoming a more polished boxer and insists: “I’m not ready for my pipe and slippers yet!”

WHEN the end came, his undefeated status removed, Ricky Hatton met his fate with the same wit that had carried him through 14 weeks gruelling weeks of preparation, trash talking and media exposure.

THEY may have spent the last three months winding each other up, pouring scorn on their rival’s talents and rubbishing each other’s prospects for success in tonight’s WBC welterweight title fight but if there is one thing that both the Mayweather and Hatton camps agree on, it is that boxing is once again back in the big time.

Manny Pacquiao recorded a unanimous decision over Marco Antonio Barrera in Las Vegas to reaffirm his super-featherweight supremacy, but the post-fight limelight was stolen by his retiring opponent.

ERIK MORALES accepted on Saturday night what most people in boxing were all too aware of – thousands of punches to the head have taken their toll on a great warrior.

RICKY HATTON can start planning for a lucrative pay-per-view future against the biggest names in his sport after sinking Jose Luis Castillo in style at the Thomas & Mack Center.

Ricky Hatton delivered a performance of vicious efficiency to hammer Jose Luis Castillo to fourth-round defeat in Las Vegas and secure his place in the pantheon of his generation’s pay-per-view superstars.

WHAT better metaphor to judge this year in and out of the ring than the sport itself. Like a journeyman pro, the sport has in 2006 been all things to all men.

Former world boxing champion Naseem Hamed is facing the possibility of a prison sentence after he today admitted dangerous driving following a crash in his £300,000 sports car.

RICKY HATTON’S dream of emulating his sport’s trans-Atlantic greats moved closer to reality after heovercame another cuts nightmare to unify the world light-welterweight titles with a ninth-round knockout of Carlos Maussa in Sheffield.

Mexican boxing legend Marco Antonio Barrera has backed Naseem Hamed’s stated intention to return to the ring nearly five years after outclassing the ’Prince’ in Las Vegas.

Naseem Hamed has revealed he will never fight rising British boxing star Amir Khan.

One thing that Wayne McCullough could never be accused of is shirking a challenge.

Former world featherweight champion Prince Naseem Hamed was today released on bail after he was arrested over a crash which left a man seriously injured.

NASEEM HAMED yesterday announced he is planning to return to the ring in the Middle East this summer after a three-year absence.

Naseem Hamed has confirmed he is planning to return to the ring after a three-year absence this summer.

Marco Antonio Barrera has claimed the WBC super-featherweight title with a majority points win over old adversary Erik Morales at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Marco Antonio Barrera has claimed the WBC super-featherweight title with a majority points win over old adversary Erik Morales at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

WBO world featherweight champion Scott Harrison will fly to Las Vegas in November to challenge the winner of the battle between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales.

WBO world featherweight champion Scott Harrison will fly to Las Vegas in November to issue a ringside challenge to the winner of the third battle between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales.

One of the world’s best fighters may finally get a title to call his own after one of the most anticipated matches of the year in Las Vegas on Saturday.

ONCE again, it didn’t make the second round but his growing band of supporters who made their way to Albuquerque weren’t complaining.

Mexican great Marco Antonio Barrera suffered a shock defeat when beaten into submission by Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines in San Antonio, Texas.

In the build-up to his 1997 New York win over Kevin Kelley, Naseem Hamed chose Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping as his big-fight anthem and belted out the words: “I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down.”

OSCAR DE LA HOYA delivered a chilling message to Sugar Shane Mosley ahead of their September 13 rematch when he stopped Mexican Yory Boy Campas in seven rounds to retain his WBC/WBA light-middleweight titles at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas.

Scott Harrison is determined to live up to all the colossal comparisons afforded him after his masterful points win over Wayne McCullough at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow.

Naseem Hamed has no intention of retiring and will definitely be back in the ring in the new year, according to one of his closest confidants.

Johnny Tapia has good reason not to be scared ahead of his world featherweight title fight in Las Vegas tonight.

WAYNE McCULLOUGH will take two years of frustration out on Nikolai Eremeev tonight.

BOXER Bernard Dunne has been signed up by Sugar Ray Leonard with the talented Dubliner slated for his first bout in a week in Buffalo, New York.

Britain’s Ricky Hatton has today been hailed as the biggest live attraction in British boxing as promoter Frank Warren lined up his next title defence.

Marco Antonio Barrera has claimed the WBC featherweight title with a unanimous points win over fellow Mexican Erik Morales in Las Vegas.

Belfast hard man Eamonn Magee has laughed off Ricky Hatton’s boast that he can become the new Naseem Hamed of British boxing.

Naseem Hamed marked his return from a 13-month sabbatical with a win at London Arena last night - but not the kind he would have wanted.

Naseem Hamed says he intends to turn back the clock in his long awaiting comeback fight against Spain's Manuel Calvo.

Frank Maloney insists the Prince Naseem Hamed camp are running scared of Scotland’s Scott Harrison.

Naseem Hamed will make his long-awaited return to the ring against Manuel Calvo Junior in March.

Top promoter Frank Warren has launched a scathing attack on former protégé Prince Naseem Hamed.