Enzo Maccarinelli will get a chance to regain the WBO cruiserweight title when he faces Johnathon Banks in February.

Former world boxing champion Scott Harrison is freed from Barlinnie prison in time for the New Year.

The World Boxing Association is to investigate Nikolay Valuev's victory over Evander Holyfield on 20 December.

Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy is knighted in the New Year Honours list, as Bradley Wiggins and Ben Ainslie become CBEs, Rebecca Adlington is appointed OBE and Lewis Hamilton becomes an MBE.

Matt Skelton has won the vacant European heavyweight title with a ninth-round stoppage of Italian Paulo Vidoz in Milan.

Leicester boxer Rendall Munroe wants to hold his next title defence in his home town after beating Italian Fabrizio Trotta in Dublin on Thursday.

Floyd Mayweather Jr wants to come out of retirement for a possible rematch with Ricky Hatton next year.

European super-bantamweight champion Rendall Munroe stops Fabrizio Trotta in the fifth round of their title bout in Dublin.

David Haye will fight Vitali Klitschko in London next summer, Klitschko's manager confirms.

Veteran boxing coach and fundraiser Ben Geyser is awarded the 2008 BBC Sports Unsung Hero accolade.

Wladimir Klitschko successfully defends his WBO and IBF heavyweight titles as he clinically takes Hasim Rahman apart in Germany.

David Haye is promising a return to "big time boxing" in Liverpool when he promotes a show in the city in March.

Brian Magee unleashes a series of body shots to stop Stevie McGuire and win the vacant British super-middleweight title on Saturday.

BBC Sport's Ben Dirs looks ahead to what might pan out over the next 12 months

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