31.   Ruiz now faces a mandatory defence against Kirk Johnson, while Holyfield insisted he still plans to capture the heavyweight crown a fifth time before ending his career.

32.   The flamboyant, wild-haired King promotes Mike Tyson and had a stranglehold on the heavyweight division world crowns earlier this year.

33.   The fight lived up to its two predecessors, in which the two fighters exchanged the world heavyweight crown.

34.   The IBF had decided Botha could keep his heavyweight crown despite taking anabolic steroids prior to his title fight with Schulz last December.

35.   The International Boxing Federation has rejected a bid by its top-ranked contender Chris Byrd to have Lennox Lewis stripped of the heavyweight crown.