Shannon Briggs has joined the queue to fight David Haye. The former world champion and one-time challenger of Lennox Lewis says he is willing to travel to Europe to take on the WBA heavyweight champion.

The 28-year-old Edwin Valero had been staying in a hotel in his native Venezuela when he alerted security in the early hours of Sunday morning that he had stabbed wife Jennifer three times.

Rendall Munroe continued his fairytale rise to boxing’s summit by stopping Mexican Victor Terrazas in the ninth round of their WBC super-bantamweight title eliminator at the Coventry Skydome on Friday night.

Carl Froch’s ongoing participation in the Super Six tournament has been plunged into serious doubt when it was confirmed there is no agreement for his next fight to be staged in Britain.

Out for the last and they touch gloves in centre ring as the crowd go nuts. Big chants of “Kessler” but will that be enough to carry him over the finishing line? How will the judges score this one? Froch again holds his hands low and eats a right but the ‘Cobra’ digs in and lands a left counter.

Wladimir Klitschko, the IBF and WBO champion, had issued a video message taunting Britain’s WBA title holder and calling for a long-awaited showdown between the pair.

Former European light-middleweight champion Jamie Moore has announced his retirement. The 31-year-old Salford favourite, who was on the verge of a WBC title shot last year, has called it quits following two damaging defeats.

Unbeaten WBC super-middleweight Froch ( 26-0 20KOs) will face a hostile crowd of over 25,000 in Herning as he looks to pick up his second victory of the Super Six World Boxing Classic series after an unconvincing split decision points win over Andre Dirrell.

Making his fourth defence of the title after an 11-month lay-off, Berto improved to 26-0 with 20 wins inside the distance with a comprehensive defeat of the former WBO champion.

Evander Holyfield is still dreaming of becoming world heavyweight champion for an unprecedented fifth time after beating Frans Botha in Las Vegas. Only 3,127 fans turned up at the Thomas & Mack Center to watch the 47-year-old win the meaningless WBF title with an eighth-round stoppage of an equally faded Botha.