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Latest Boxing News in Brief – Monday 31^st January For: Adamek vs. McBride, Amir Khan, Carl Froch, Carl Froch, David Haye, Giovanni Segura, ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’, Ivan Calderon, Jamie “Mr Business”, Pittman, Liebling Award, Odlanier Solis, Paul McCloskey, Pete Hamill, Vitali Klitschko

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• Calderón-Segura II on April 2 - Former WBO 108lb champion Ivan Calderon will allegedly have a rematch with reigning WBO/WBA champion Giovanni Segura on April 2 in Mexico according to credible sources. The television money weighed in this decision, which should be announced in the coming days.

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• Hamill wins Liebling Award — Veteran New York journalist and author Pete Hamill has been selected by the Boxing Writers Association of America as the winner of this year’s A.J. Liebling Award. Bestowed since 1995 by the BWAA, the award honors the elegant New Yorker stylist, who chronicled the sport for decades and whose work was subsequently collected in the timeless boxing books The Sweet Science and A Neutral Corner. The Liebling Award will be presented at the BWAA’s annual dinner in Las Vegas on May 6th.

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• ‘I`ll Go to War with Andy Lee!’ - Scottish and Irish boxing fans on the East Coast of America are gearing up for their Fight of the Year as Holywood-based, Edinburgh middleweight Craig McEwan takes on Limerick’s Andy Lee at the Foxwoods Caino, Connecticut on 12th March. The fight ,which is being billed by top promoter Lou Di Bello as the ‘Celtic War’, is effectively a world title eliminator. Connecticut is deep in the heart of Irish America and it is likely that Lee’s countrymen will greatly outnumber Scottish fans on the night. However McEwan, who likes to fight as the underdog, will not be fazed by this.

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• WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch (27-1, 20 KO’s) has decided to start his training camp this week for his May 21st bout against 42-year-old Glen Johnson (51-14-2, 35 KO’s) for their semifinals Super Six tournament bout. As of now, there isn’t a designated venue, but Froch is holding out hope that the fight will take place in the UK. It’s going to be up to Showtime whether they’ll agree to that.

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• Khan reaches out to Katsidis — With negotiation attempts with EBU light welterweight champion Paul McCloskey and Lamont Peterson having been tried and failed, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) now says his management will be contacting lightweight contender Michael Katsidis (27-3, 22 KO’s) on Monday to see if he’ll be interested in a fight on April 16th in the UK.

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• Adamek vs. McBride - Heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (43-1, 28 KO’s) has reportedly signed the contract to face 37-year-old Kevin McBride (35-8-1, 29 KO’s) in a tune-up bout on April 16th, at the Spodek, Katowice, Poland. According to fightnews.com, the contracts have been signed for this fight, which is a warm-up for the 34-year-old Adamek for his September bout against one of the Klitschko brothers in Poland.

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• Pittman and Leapai win — By Ray Wheatley - Former WBA middleweight challenger Jamie “Mr Business” Pittman (21-2, 8 KOs) was impressive as he outscored Tim Kanofski (11-4) in an action bout over six rounds at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Broad Beach Queensland, Australia on Saturday. Pittman, 6’1, boxing from the southpaw stance controlled the action in all the rounds as he connected, consistently with accurate combinations on his aggressive opponent. Kanofski came to fight but had no answer to the world class skills of the Athens 2004 Olympian. Pittman’s amateur record: (111-26). Pittman lost WBA middleweight challenge in 2008 when Felix Sturm stopped him in seven rounds. Pittman is managed by Bill Treacy and trained by Graham Shaw. “Pittman will be in regular action in 2011 and we will be looking for world rated opponent,” said Shaw.

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• Unbeaten former 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is really serious his March 19th title challenge against WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s) at the Lanxess-Arena, in Cologne, Germany. Solis, who came into his last fight in December weighing a fat looking 260 pounds, is currently training in the snow-covered mountains in Germany and is putting in 2 1/2 hours of roadwork each day to lose some of the fat that’s collected on his once lean 200 pound frame.

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• By Mark Vester — WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch would have liked to take part in a doubleheader with his close friend, WBA heavyweight champion David Haye, but he doesn’t believe it’s possible. Froch faces Glen Johnson in the semi-finals of the Super Six tournament on May 21, which is the same date as Haye’s scheduled title defense at the O2 Arena in London. — Sky Sports wanted Froch and Haye to take part in a pay-per-view doubleheader on the May 21 date. Froch says his contract in the Super Six orders the semi-finals, and the final bout, to take place in the United States. He’s not too happy about that, but says there is a chance that his fight with Johnson will take place in Canada. - “David is an old mate from my amateur days and we have been talking about a double header with Sky,” said Froch to the Nottingham Post. “I think it would be really good. But Showtime have said from day one that the semi-finals and finals would be in America. There is a chance I could fight in Canada and I might have to settle for that.”

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WBC Champion Vitali Klitschko will defend his title against Cuban Odlanier Solis at LANXESS Arena Cologne, Germany, on March 19. Solis is ranked #1 in the WBC and Klitschko’s official mandatory challenger.

Odlanier „La Sombra“ Solis is 30 years old and lives in Florida. He has an impressive amateur fight record of 241 fights and 227 wins. Solis is a three times world amateur champion as well as Olympic gold medalist in Athens 2004. Solis scored a 10th-round disqualification victory against Ray Austin in the title elimination bout in Miami on December 17 to become Klitschko’s mandatory challenger. As a professional, Solis is unbeaten and owns 17 wins with 12 KOs.

39 year-old Vitali Klitschko stands at 41 wins (38 KOs) and just two defeats due to injuries. Klitschko’s knock out percentage is a record- high 92 percent. Vitali Klitschko is the fourth boxer alongside Muhammad Ali, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis to win a heavyweight belt for the third time. In his last fight, Klitschko defeated former Champion Shannon Briggs in a unanimous decision in Hamburg in October. In Cologne, it will be Klitschko’s 14th World Championship fight.

Vitali Klitschko: “I have heard and read different quotes from Solis saying that I tried to avoid him. This is nonsense. There’s a reason why I’m WBC Champion and I am proud of holding the same title that Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis held. I will show inside the ring that I am the strongest heavyweight champion and I am 100 percent sure I will successfully defend my title. But I know Solis is a very tough opponent and I will not underestimate him.”

Odlanier Solis: ”The Klitschkos seem to think that I am just another opponent like the last tomato cans they cherry-picked so Vitali could easily beat them up. But I am not only the mandatory challenger. I have been the best amateur fighter in the world and I will prove that I am the best professional fighter as well. Klitschko should be afraid to lose his title. I will end his career.”

Bernd Bönte, Managing Director of Klitschko Management Group (KMG): “We are glad we have a signed contract and a go for March 19 in Cologne. Solis is definitely one of Vitali’s toughest opponents. I think it’s a very interesting fight for the audience.”

In Germany, Klitschko vs. Solis will be shown live and exclusively on RTL.

Ticket sales start on January 26 and will be available on www.eventim.de. Prices start at 25 euro.

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Solis vs Klitschko back on track - After harsh words yesterday between the camps of WBC mandatory challenger Odlanier Solis and WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, Solis’ promoter Ahmet Öner wants to get negotiations back on track for the WBC-mandated heavyweight championship fight. - “Let’s forget about Krasniqi, Banks and Sturm,” he said. “They have nothing to do with our fight. I agree that the boxing business is getting harder and harder because there are not a lot of big names and superstars left and they are not easy to deal with. There’s no need to talk about other fighters when all we want is to secure a deal between Solis and Vitali. I apologize for bringing other names to the table. Sturm is a great champion and he is ready to fight any middleweight fighter in the world. It’s not that easy to make big fights when there are only very few big names left and they all have their separate deals in place.

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Boxing News in Brief – Wednesday 5^th January, for: Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson, Odlanier Solis, Klitschko Management Group, Antov Novikov and Aslanbek Kozaev, Saul Alvarez vs. Vyacheslav Senchenko, Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye, Golden Boy joins BPA, Jurgen Brähmer, Cristobal Arreola, SHOBOX

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• Former heavyweight title challenger Kevin “Kingpin” Johnson (23-1-1, 10 KOs) will fight on the January 22 PPV event featuring Evander Holyfield against Sherman Williams. Johnson states that bouts against Cedric Boswell, Oliver McCall and Chauncy Welliver failed to materialize. “Let me make something clear, this show is about redemption and I am about redemption,” said Johnson. “I plan to earn my way back to a world title shot, and it starts with this show.”

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• Unbeaten WBC mandatory challenger Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12 KO’s) is not happy with the way that negotiations are going with World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KO’s), “The offer we got from the Klitschko side are not what we have been expecting. In addition they don’t want to comply to any of our requests. We have made a counter offer but so far they didn’t respond to that. So I guess we’ll have to go to purse bid”, says Solis’ promoter Ahmet Oner.

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• Klitschko’s respond - Bernd Bönte, Managing Director of the Klitschko Management Group GmbH has responded to statements released earlier today by the Odlanier Solis Camp regarding negotiations for WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko’s mandatory defense against Solis. “I can tell you that the only issue Öner has in the negotiations so far are tax issues,” stated Bönte. - “Regarding the matchmaking of the fight between Luan Krasniqi and Jonathon Banks, I can only answer that Jonathon is #6 of the WBC ranking and has so far only lost to Tomasz Adamek. And Luan is a former European champion and has fought for the world title against Brewster. - “I also don’t know how Öner rates his own matchmaking for Felix Sturm. Sturm’s next title challenger is Ronald Hearns who has never fought anybody and is not even ranked up until today. Hearns is #58 of the independent ranking!”

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• Antov Novikov and Aslanbek Kozaev — Sensational undefeated Russian prospects Antov Novikov and Aslanbek Kozaev have been added to WINDY CITY FIGHT NIGHT 15 on Friday, January 28th at Chicago’s UIC Pavilion, it was announced today by Dominic Pesoli’s 8 Count Productions. - Now based in Chicago, both Novikov and Kozaev will be returning to battle following their triumphant victories at the UIC Pavilion this past September in which they each made their North American debuts.

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• Saul Alvarez vs. Vyacheslav Senchenko ?- The proposed bout between unbeaten welterweight/junior middleweight contender Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) and unbeaten World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko (31-0, 20 KO’s) looks like it won’t be taking place. Fightnews is reporting that the negotiations aren’t working out between the two fighters.

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• Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye’s fight may finally get underway this summer. Various news sources are reporting that negotiations for the unification clash are going as well as could be hoped for, and fight news.com and The LA Times are even suggesting the month fight may take place on. - Late spring or early summer look likely, The LA Times says, and they have quoted Golden Boys’ Richard Schaefer - “David wants the fight. We are working now on the date and the venue.”

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• Golden Boy joins BPA - Boxing promotional powerhouse Golden Boy Promotions has officially joined the Boxing Promoters Association. Golden Boy and the BPA will make it official at the organizations next upcoming meeting on January 10th at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, NV. “I am excited to be joining the Boxing Promoters Association and look forward to work with all promoters to help grow the sport in a positive manner,” said Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, whose company controls a large portion of the TV dates that smaller promoters allege they have been frozen out of.

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• WBO light heavyweight champion Jurgen Brähmer (36-2, 29 KOs) was forced to pull out of Saturday’s unification clash with WBA champion Beibut Shumenov (10-1, 5 KOs) in Shymkent, Kazakhstan due to an acute gastrointestinal illness. Brähmer and BDB President Thomas Pütz, another member of the five-person German delegation both fell ill. “A few hours after arrival in Shymkent, both came down with severe diarrhea with nausea and severe vomiting which lasted all night,” explained Dr. Michael Ehnert.

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• Heavyweight Cristobal Arreola (29-2, 25 KOs) is desperate to regain respect and acceptance as a legitimate contender for a world heavyweight title. However hard-hitting southpaw Joey “Minnesota Ice” Abell (27-4, 26 KOs) is planning to ruin Arreola’s plans on January 28 at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California. “In my mind it’s a do or die fight for him and I expect that he will try and do more to get in shape for me,” said Abell, who will be taking a big step up in competition.

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• Friday night, Feb. 11, 2011, - In the SHOWTIME® main event of the evening on SHOBOX: The New Generation the undefeated WBA #1 Jr. Featherweight World contender, Rico “Suavecito” Ramos (18-0, 10 KOs), of Los Angeles, will look to take his next step toward a World Championship challenge in a scheduled 10-round contest against tough IBF #15 ranked, former world title challenger Alejandro Valdez (23-4-3, 17 KOs), of Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, Mexico. The telecast will air live at a special time of 11:30 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

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Pro Boxing News - Thursday 28th October For: Zab Judah, Lucas Matthysse, Avtandil Khurtsidze, Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam,Odlanier Solis, Ray Austin, Shannon Briggs, Andre Ward, “Bam Bam” Brandon Rios, Noe “Platanito” Bolanos, Pacquiao,Roach, Harrison, Haye, Michael Roberts

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• Zab Judah — Never one to waste an opportunity to make a big impression, Zab Judah has enlisted the support of the United States Armed Forces as he prepares to take on Argentine Knock out artist Lucas Matthysse on Saturday, November 6th at Newark’s Prudential Center. — Judah has arranged for 200 members of the US Armed Forces to attend the event as his personal guests. In addition, a color guard involving members of all branches of the United States Armed Forces, will present the colors during the National Anthem. - Fight Details: Judah vs. Matthysse, a twelve round NABO junior welterweight championship bout, is part of an exciting night of boxing at Newark’s Prudential Center on Saturday, November 6. The show is presented by Main Events, Super Judah Promotions, and Golden Boy Promotions. Doors open at 6:00pm, first bout to follow immediately. The HBO Boxing After Dark telecast begins at 11:15pm ET / PT.

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• Avtandil Khurtsidze vs Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam — Former WBA Inter-Continental middleweight champion and EBA champion, Avtandil Khurtsidze (22-1-2, 13 KO), will fight Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam (24-0-, 17 KOs) for the interim WBA world middleweight title on October 30th at the Palais des Sports Porte de Versailles in Paris, France. The fighters went face to face at the final press conference. -Hassan N’dam: I saw four fights of Avandtil Khurtshide, and he is nothing but a boxer who imposes his pressure and he knows how to come forward, but he is technically limited. Unfortunately for him Oct. 30, he will be forced to retreat. Avandtil Khurtshide: I have seen several fights of N’Dam, he is talented but his style suits me perfectly. I have not come to France to lose but to take the belt. Hassan has never faced an opponent of my caliber. I do not see how he could resist my pressure for 12 rounds. He is always saying that I do not go backwards, but if necessary I would.

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• Odlanier Solis Vs Ray Austin — Don King at a presser yesterday afternoon at the American Airlines Arena to announced the upcoming WBC heavyweight “final elimination” bout in Miami for Friday, December 17th. King, aged 79, dazzled the assembled media for two hours with his unique blend of hyperbole and flash. Waving an American flag emblazoned with the image of a Native American, King proclaimed “boxing is life and life is boxing” to kick off the press conference in true Don King style. The main event pits 2004 Cuban Olympic gold medal winner Odlanier Solis (16-0, 12 KOs) against Ray Austin (28-4-4, 18 KOs) - at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami - with the winner earning the right to face WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.

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• Briggs back home in US — Former heavyweight champion of the world Shannon Briggs (51-6-1, 45 KOs) and wife Alana Briggs returned to the US via Newark, New Jersey international airport. Briggs has been in Germany since his loss to WBC champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38 KOs) on October 16th. Briggs suffered multiple injuries as a result of the fight with the most serious being a torn left bicep which he had surgery on. Briggs told Fightnews - “We are happy to be back home. Germany was great! We are in New Jersey to pick up our two sons, 13-year-old Chan and 4-year-old Caden. Right now no decisions will be made on whether I will continue boxing or not. We will go home and rehab and sit down with the family and make that decision at a later date. I feel great! Like I could fight next week! For now I will stay busy with my business ventures and continue to promote Zivair and put the finishing touches on my wife’s skin care line. Thanks to my fans for all the support and love I received from around the world. It made me realize how many people I touched. I just want you all to know how much you have touched me.”

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• Andre Ward Exclusive - This week’s 97th edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with reigning WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward (22-0, 13 KOs) who is scheduled to face Sakio Bika (28-4-2, 19 KOs) on November 27 at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Ward currently tops the leader board in the Super Six super middleweight tournament and is guaranteed a spot in the semifinals. Ward spoke about his upcoming fight, talked about his future in Super Six tournament, and also touched on a variety of other topics pertaining to the current boxing landscape including the Klitschko Brothers, Pacquaio-Margarito, Pascal’s victory over Chad Dawson, Bernard Hopkins, Carl Froch, and more. Here is what he had to say:

On his initial reaction to the news that Andre Dirrell was forced to pull out of the Super Six: — “Well obviously it was shocking news to hear. There are a lot of things going through your mind. You wonder about the state of the tournament, you wonder about Dirrell’s health, and you’re just trying to figure out what’s going to happen. The key for me and my team is to keep the date. That was the key because we didn’t want to not be on the show until next year. We got a semifinals spot and all of that, but that doesn’t do anything for our progress in terms of staying sharp and just staying at it. So we just quickly made a decision to keep the date and to look for a new opponent. It’s unfortunate, and I wish Dirrell a speedy recovery. I want to see him back in the ring doing his thing, and we just have to move on and set our sights on the next opponent.”

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• “Bam Bam” Brandon Rios Vs Noe “Platanito” Bolanos — WBA # 1 lightweight contender “Bam Bam” Brandon Rios (25-0-1, 18 KOs) of Oxnard, CA, training out of the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy, is scheduled to take on Noe “Platanito” Bolanos (21-5-1, 13KOs) of Mexico in a 10 round lightweight bout on Saturday, December 4 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA on the undercard of Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. vs. Alfonso Gomez, titled ‘In Harm’s Way’. Rios vs. Bolanos will open up the pay-per-view telecast.

• Pacquiao – Roach, stand by their statement that they believe that Margarito cheated - Pacquiao stood by his stance that Antonio Margarito knew his hands were loaded when he was busted with plaster inserts in his wraps prior to his fight with “Sugar” Shane Mosley in January 2009. on HBO’s first episode of 24/7 on Saturday.

Roach on Wednesday also spoke candidly about the incident. Starting off, by saying he agrees with Pacquiao that Margarito had to know his handwraps were doctored. - “You have a fu****g rock in your hand, you know it,” Roach said. — Roach also said, “Against (Daniel) Santos and Paul Williams and so forth, he doesn’t look like he’s that big a puncher. Against (Kermit) Cintron and (Miguel) Cotto, something was different.” -- Roach ended by describing how he had studied six or seven of Margarito’s recent fights. He said he noticed something that really made him think Margarito may have had loaded wraps in some of them. For example: “What is the first thing a fighter wants to do when he’s done fighting?” Roach said. “Take off his gloves. He kept the gloves on the whole fu****g time.” - And which fight was that? Roach was asked. ”The second Cintron fight.” Answered Roach — In that one, Margarito knocked out Cintron in the sixth round in April 2008 in Atlantic City. In their first fight, in April 2005 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Margarito stopped Cintron in the fifth round.

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• Pacman retirement plans — Pacquiao plans on fighting only three more times before putting a wrap on his long boxing career and hanging up his gloves for good. — In an article at the Agency France Press, Pacquiao said “I am thinking about retirement but I can still fight a few fights and that is it.” One can only guess who those fights will be with, but it’s very likely that two of them will be fellow Top Rank fighters Miguel Cotto and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

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• Hot Scottish talent Michael Roberts will make his glittering debut on Frank Warren’s big Braehead Arena card in Glasgow on December 4th. — Roberts features on the undercard of Ricky Burns who makes the first defence of his WBO World Super-Featherweight title against Andreas Evensen. — But Roberts is hoping to make a real statement with the fans and media with a stellar performance as he kicks off his professional career. — The 21-year-old had a sparkling amateur career, and has even been compared to Burns by renowned manager Alex Morrison. - “It’s nice to spoken about in the same sentence as Ricky, but I want to be own man,” said Roberts. - “Scottish boxing is on a high at the moment because of Ricky’s sensational win over Roman Martinez, and it’s fantastic to be a part of it. — “I grew up watching the likes of Scott Harrison and Alex Arthur dominating Scottish boxing and I aim to become a world champion just like them and Ricky.”

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• Haye wants to send Harrison into retirement — This is what Haye had to say on the subject of Harrison and retirement in an interview with the BBC Sport: “I’m sick of hearing of him [Harrison], sick of reading about him, and sick of seeing the sight of him. My plan here is to put Audley once and for all into retirement. My last two fights against Nikolay Valuev, he’s not fought since. He’s looking at retiring. John Ruiz is officially retiring. I’m looking to retire my opponents.”

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