Johnny Walker
62 articles · Boxing Insider
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Lennox Lewis: ?Vitali Klitschko Is the Best Heavyweight Out There?
In a new interview with Sky Sports, former world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis praises current WBC champion Vitali Klitschko, the man he defeated on a cuts stoppage in 2003 before retiring,…
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The Klitschkos Might Fight Each Other in 2012 ? Through David Haye
WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, who is set to fight the UK?s Dereck Chisora on February 18 in Germany, has again been making it crystal clear that his real target in 2012…
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Wladimir Klitschko Hospitalized For Kidney Stone ? Fight With Mormeck in Jeopardy?
According to the report, Klitschko was flown by helicopter from his training camp in the Alps?where he is preparing for a December 10 title defense against French challenger Jean Marc Mormeck, to…
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What?s the Rush to Push Vitali Klitschko into Retirement?
Every time Vitali Klitschko is interviewed by any media outlet, be it large or small, these days, he is badgered about his retirement date. It?s become tiresome to hear him constantly asked…
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Shannon Briggs: ?Teddy Atlas Was the Ultimate Control Freak ? He Betrayed Me!?
Boxing commentator and trainer Teddy Atlas is not exactly Mr. Popularity with many American fighters these days. After recently guiding Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin to a paper WBA world heavyweight title (the…
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Klitschko Spokesman Bernd Boente: ?Vitali Versus David Haye is Still Possible For Next Spring?
Former WBA heavyweight champion of the world David Haye has apparently signaled to the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) that he intends to retire, but a fight between Haye and WBC…
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Wladimir Klitschko To Fight Jean Marc Mormeck on December 10
In an anticlimactic announcement today, it was confirmed that The Ring magazine recognized heavyweight champion of the world, Wladimir Klitschko (that?s as opposed to the Boxing Insider recognized heavyweight champion of the…
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Interview w/ Monte ?Two Gunz? Barrett ? ?Teddy Atlas Is A Big Hypocrite!?
Boxing Insider sat down this week for a wide-ranging telephone interview with one of our favorite heavyweights, WBO Asia Pacific and Oriental heavyweight champion Monte ?Two Gunz? Barrett. On August 13, 2011,…
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Vitali Klitschko Not Too Big, Just Too Good, Says Tomasz Adamek
It?s a phrase that has been repeated like a zen mantra by many boxing ?experts? ever since WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko easily dominated top challenger Tomasz Adamek a few weeks back:…
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Klitschko Brothers? Biggest Battle Is With a Recalcitrant Sports Media, Pt. 1
In the wake of another dominant performance?maybe one of his best ever at age 40, no less?by WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in stopping game Polish challenger Tomasz Adamek last Saturday, it…
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David Haye: ?I Will Come Back To Fight Vitali!?
Former WBA champion David Haye has announced that he will delay his planned October retirement in order to fight one of the Klitschko brothers, most likely WBC champion Vitali. According to a…
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Klitschko vs Adamek Wraps Excellent Summer for Resurgent Heavyweight Division
You?ve heard it a million times. The heavyweight division is boring, dying, terminal, dead. Especially in America, the nation that used to rule boxing?s glamour division, cynical and jaded boxing writers have…
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Vitali Klitschko: ?Tomasz Adamek Is Better Than David Haye? a ?Special Surprise? Planned
The recent fight between The Ring recognized heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye no doubt left a bitter aftertaste in the mouths of many fans of heavyweight boxing. While Wladimir pitched…
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Don King Makes Charged Racial Assessment of David Haye and the Klitschko Brothers
Veteran boxing promoter Don King has made a troubling assessment of David Haye and the Klitschko brothers today in the British media. King, who turns 80 today, tells www.dailymail.co.uk that the Klitschko…
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Tyson Fury Can?t Find an Opponent, Except ? Audley Harrison
Newly crowned British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury had planned to kick off his title reign with a defense of his belts in Belfast, Northern Ireland against veteran Irish scrapper Martin…
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Redemption for Who? Monte Barrett Hangs On Late To Defeat David Tua
Monte ?Two Gunz? Barrett opened an early lead and then held on to defeat David ?Tuamanator? Tua today in an entertaining heavyweight battle at the Telstra Clear Events Centre, in Manukau City,…
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Monte Barrett Gives Up Sex for David Tua Fight
Veteran heavyweight Monte ?Two Gunz? Barrett is taking this Saturday?s rematch with New Zealand?s David ?Tuamanator? Tua very seriously. How seriously, you ask? Barrett says that he has forgone sexual relations for…
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Vitali Klitschko Offers Bail for Jailed Political Leader, Continues Training Camp in Ukraine
According to a report in the Kiev Post, WBC Heavyweight Champion Vitali Klitschko, who suspended his training camp in Austria over the weekend to return to Ukraine, has offered to post bail…
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David Tua Working Hard For ?Last Chance? Fight Against Monte Barrett
Veteran heavyweight contender David ?Tuamanator? Tua opened up his training camp to reporters this week in New Zealand ahead of his August 13 rematch with New Yorker Monte Barrett ? a rematch…
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Can Tyson Fury Live Up To His Own Hype?
Tomorrow night at Wembley arena in London, England, the greatest heavyweight trash talker since David ?Ouch, my toe? Haye, as well as the fighter with the greatest name in boxing history, Tyson…