Burns has heavenly body title ambitions

Ricky ahead of his first defence of his Commonwealth super-featherweight crown against the Ghanaian Yakuba Amidu at the Kelvin Hall on Friday evening, writes Jim Black.

HEILBrice begets a Knock-Out fight for LA Boxing
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Warren urges Calzaghe to quit
Joe Calzaghe's former promoter Frank Warren has urged the unbeaten Welsh boxer to retire from the sport following his win gone Roy Jones Jr at the weekend.

Paul Hayward: Hey Joe, it's a high way to go Paraphrasing Jimi Hendrix's classic song, Joe Calzaghe should han
As Roy Jones was becoming Joe Calzaghes 46th straight victim, the American sang a version of Jimi Hendrixs classic Hey Joe through his gumshield: Hey Joe, you learn youre 45-and-Oh.

Calzaghe toys with retirement as Hatton urges him to quit
Joe Calzaghe will hatch the definitive decision on his future once the euphoria has died down.


To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.
- Henri Frederic Amiel