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Unbeaten super-bantamweight Kid Galahad (real name Barry Awad) is now free to pursue his sporting dream having been cleared to fight again by UK doping agency UKAD. The Sheffield man tested positive for stanozolol, an anabolic steroid, following an in-competition test in September 2014 after a bout against former WBO super bantamweight champion Adeilson Dos Santos.
RICKY BURNS is on a collision course with Jose Zepeda as he bids to regain his old WBO lightweight world title - and could face him in in London or Glasgow before the summer's end.
LEE SELBY'S mandatory defence of his IBF featherweight title against Eric Hunter is headed for London on April 9 amid suggestions from Eddie Hearn that the Welshman has lost momentum in the UK since deciding to take his career to America.
PAUL SMITH is set to return to the ring on April 2 in Liverpool and will then set his sights on Felix Sturm as he bids to make it third time lucky in Germany, according to his promoter Eddie Hearn.
IBF SUPER-MIDDLEWEIGHT champion James DeGale is now set to face Rogelio Medina as his mandatory challenger after an illness put paid to an expected clash with Jose Uzcategui.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER insists he has no intention of returning to the ring because he finally feels like a father now he no longer worries about boxing. Mayweather officially retired from the sport after beating Andre Berto in Las Vegas in September but it is widely expected that he will return at some point in order to break Rocky Marciano's 49-0 undefeated record.
ASHLEY THEOPHANE has revealed what he believes will be his secret weapon when it comes to dethroning WBA light-welterweight kind Adrien Broner this spring: Nate Jones.
TEAM SAUERLAND have launched a protest to the World Boxing Council regarding their decision to sanction the super-middleweight fight between Callum Smith and Hadillah Mohoumadi as a final eliminator for a shot at titlist Badou Jack.
JAMES DEGALE has recalled his first meeting with “mad looking” Al Haymon and revealed why he decided to join the influential advisor's ever-growing list of clients. DeGale banked $1.5m when Warriors Boxing, via Haymon, won the purse bid to stage the fight against Andre Dirrell for the vacant IBF super-middleweight title in March.
By Declan Taylor - IT WAS two years ago this week that Carl Froch and George Groves clashed for the first time on a highly charged and controversial night in Manchester. Meanwhile, down south in the London suburb of Harlesden, another 12 stone man was being slowly enveloped by ever-worsening depression. The Olympic gold medal, secured five years earlier in Beijing, was still displayed proudly in the family home but the promising career of the gifted, silky southpaw had stagnated. A defeat against Groves was the only blot on a tenure which had already gleaned British and European super-middleweight titles and left him, it seemed, only a few fights away from a shot at the world crown. But for James DeGale, it already felt like time to give up. The money earned to that point had been invested wisely, in property mainly, and his name alone, he thought, would be enough to earn a few grand a month as a personal trainer. He was ready to turn his back on a sport with which he had fallen out of love. Only a few months earlier he had flown to Quebec for an eight rounder. In a function room at the Hilton Lac Leamy, he stopped Sebastien Demers inside two. He did not enjoy it. Boxing, he said, had become nothing more than a job and he wanted out. Watching Froch and Groves capture the imagination of the British public did not help one bit.