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Boxing: Parker delivers second round KO
New Zealand's Joseph Parker announced his arrival in the ranks of respected heavyweights tonight with a second round knockout of durable South African heavyweight Francois Botha.
As it happened: Parker v Botha
Our live blog tonight brings you all the action from the heavyweight boxing bout between Joseph Parker and Francois Botha from Trusts Arena in Auckland.
Boxing: White Buffalo gets ready to champion new causes
Soon after he fights Joseph Parker at Auckland's Trusts Arena tonight, Francois Botha's thoughts will start turning towards Evander Holyfield.
Boxing: Barry warns that Botha is a risky step up for Parker
Joseph Parker looked relaxed ahead of the biggest fight of his short professional boxing career tomorrow night but the same couldn't be said about his trainer Kevin Barry.
Boxing: Tua incentive angers Barry
Joseph Parker's trainer Kevin Barry is angry Francois Botha has the incentive of a potentially lucrative fight against David Tua if he can get past his man on Thursday night.
UFC: Mark Hunt still wants title shot
Mark Hunt hasn't lost any confidence following his knockout loss to Junior dos Santos at UFC 160 in Las Vegas last month.
Boxing: Parker primed for battle
No one can say New Zealand heavyweight boxing prospect Joseph Parker is unprepared for his much-anticipated fight with South Africa's Francois Botha on Thursday.
Boxers partner up with cancer battlers
Ardie Hickey has been battling a brain tumour, and boxer Bubba Tuigamala is getting in the ring to support that fight.
Promoter: Dwarf bout not objectionable
Dean Lonergan, the promoter of a boxing match between two dwarves, insists it's a serious fight and can't see why anyone would object.
Dwarf boxing bout on Botha undercard
Promoters are expecting anger after scheduling a bout between two dwarfs as the warm up to a heavyweight boxing match between Joseph Parker and Francois "White Buffalo" Botha next month.
Boxing: 'Big man' Parker going after big man Botha
"Kevin Barry has been telling me to fight like a big man and that's what I did."
Boxing: It's Vegas, baby
The thing about Vegas is the untrue story seems so much more probable than the true and sport is still a mainstay of this engagingly strange city, captured in the iconic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Boxing: Heat goes back on Barry
It was Los Angeles, almost 30 years ago. The chairs were flying through the air. So too the drinks containers. And the cussing. The air was blue. And angry red.
Boxing: Kiwi rookie trains in luxury away from temptations
On the wall of Kevin Barry's gym in Rich Moriarty's house is a copy of a cheque made out by Don King to Mike Tyson.
Kiwi star v wanted man
A boxer lined up to take on rising Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker is wanted by police in New Zealand - but the fight's promoter says the bout will go on.
Scandal hits three football codes in Oz
All three Australian oval ball codes are caught up in peptide scandals, and the use of human growth hormone variants is said to be rife in boxing.
Boxing: Mayweather rewriting his destiny
Floyd Mayweather jnr went through something of an epiphany last year while serving an 87-day jail term for domestic abuse.
Boxing: Parker's Burbank cameo
Rookie professional heavyweight Joseph Parker is being lined up for his first high-visibility fight in Burbank, California, next month as a warm-up for his June bout against South African heavyweight Francois Botha.