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Ex-Champ Winky Wright Returns to Ring Next Month vs. Grady Brewer

Former world champion Winky Wright will return from an eight-month layoff when he enters the ring against Grady Brewer on Dec. 11 at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan.A southpaw who will turn 38 on Nov. 26, Wright is coming off of consecutive losses by decision to Bernard Hopkins and Paul Williams in July 2007 and...

Williams' Manager Rips Pavlik as Camp Pursues New Opponent

Paul Williams is pursuing a fight with either WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk or Sergio Martinez on Dec. 5 in Atlantic City now that his scheduled bout for the same night, against Kelly Pavlik, has been canceled, his promoter, Dan Goossen, and his trainer and manager, George Peterson, told FanHouse.Pavlik...

Showtime Exec 'Thrilled' After Early Bouts

Showtime's Sports general manager, Ken Hershman, said that he is "thrilled" concerning the success of last weekend's two super middleweight bouts of the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, even as he expressed concern and well-wishes toward Jermain Taylor, who was diagnosed with a concussion following his 12th-round...

Kelly Pavlik on Jermain Taylor, Paul Williams and Life Since Winning Title

It was Sept. 29, 2007, and there were many within the boisterous crowd of 10,127 who packed into Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall who wondered if their hometown hero, Kelly Pavlik, would go down in the first defeat of his career.Pavlik estimated that close to 8,000 of his faithful had traveled from his native Youngstown,...

"Throwback" Paul Williams on Kelly Pavlik, Floyd Mayweather, Others

FanHouse caught up to rising middleweight, Paul Williams, in Westminster, MD., on Friday night where the man generally considered to be among boxing's pound-for-pound best watched a stablemate on a local fight card. A 28-year-old, southpaw with two-fisted power and, usually, an incredible energy level and punch output,...

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05/31/12 SA title fight shown live on SS Source: SuperSport SuperSport will broadcast live coverage of the title fight between Bongani Mfundisi and Simphiwe Khonco on Saturday night.
05/30/12 Peter Quillin hopes a victory over Winky Wright... Source: Advance Newspapers - Ann Arbor MI The Grand Rapids native sometimes starts his day by awaking from not-so-peaceful slumber to find himself throwing combinations, the physical extension of a dream.
04/30/12 Boxing: Former champ Wright training in Phoenix Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Winky Wright (Ronald Lamont Wright) (above, left) is thinking about fighting again.
04/12/12 St. Petersburg boxer Winky Wright returning to ring at... Source: TampaBay.com It has been nearly three years since he stepped into a boxing ring, and in that time Winky Wright has been living like the rest of us: tending to business, mixing in some pleasure â mainly golfing â and spending lots of time with his wife and kids.