Wladimir Klitschko: record, next fight and profile →
Former world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko of Ukraine has expressed his displeasure at the recent agreement between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the World Boxing Association (WBA).
For a fighter seemingly never at a loss for words, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was rendered speechless. At the International Boxing Hall of Fame dinner Saturday night at the Event Center at Turning Stone Resort and Casino, Mayweather stepped to the podium after highlights of his 2007 knockout of Jr. welterweight champion Ricky Hatton played on a large screen behind the dais.
Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua recently reflected on his career and tabbed a Ukrainian boxer as being his toughest opponent to date. But it wasn't Oleksandr Usyk.
Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is standing firm on his position that all Russian athletes should be banned from events - until Russia ends their ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has reacted to the recent comments from Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. The two former heavyweight champions strongly protested the scenario of Bivol receiving a highly lucrative opportunity against Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez.
Wladimir Klitschko apparently still has some ring ambition left in the tank. Klitschko, the former long-reigning heavyweight titlist who dominated the division from 2004-2015, suggested in an interview Monday that he has not completely ruled out a return to boxing, on the caveats that he can still get into “shape” and that the geopolitical alignment of his country does not drastically change anytime soon. “Dr. Steelhammer'' is currently tied up trying to defend his homeland of Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion.
Not many people might believe him, but Tyson Fury continues to insist that he plans to retire after his fight with Dillian Whyte at Wembley. Fury has retired before and it seems odd to walk away when a fight for the undisputed world title against Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua could be next, but Fury says he has no interest in getting hold of the WBA, WBO and IBF belts that he held in his first reign as world champion.
Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko have both voiced their support to countryman Oleksandr Usyk, who decided to leave Ukraine to start training for a planned rematch with Anthony Joshua.
Wladimir Klitschko’s latest wartime appeal strikes at the biggest boxing event on the spring calendar. The former longtime reigning heavyweight champion has been desperately trying to drum up support for Ukraine, his homeland, since Russia, its neighbor to the northeast,