FORMER world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is leading the calls for Joe Calzaghe to keep his promise to retire.

MIKE “THE REBEL” PEREZ will take a huge step up in class for his next fight — top of the bill at the INEC in Killarney on October 26 — when he will face the Mike Tyson lookalike, Clifford “The Black Bull” Couser.

Monaghan's Kevin McBride has been beaten in his overnight heavyweight contest.

With his Shaq-like dimensions and fearsome features, Nikolay Valuev — history’s tallest heavyweight champ — intimidates foes and titillates fans, but can Don King’s colossus fight? L. Jon Wertheim reports.

American Hasim Rahman has been named new WBC heavyweight champion following the retirement of Vitali Klitschko.

Vitali Klitschko’s trainer believes a number of “young, strong fighters” can step up to become world heavyweight champion.

Promoter Don King has accused WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko of ducking Hasim Rahman after the fight was postponed for the fourth time.

WITH ALL the hype and expectation that preceded him into the hallowed ring at Madison Square Garden last Saturday night, it was perhaps inevitable that disappointment and a bruised ego should clamber back out between the ropes and follow heavyweight boxing’s great white hope back to his dressing room.

VITALI KLITSCHKO bounced back from his brave loss to Lennox Lewis in impressive fashion with a second-round win over Canada’s Kirk Johnson in New York.