Hungarian Zsolt “The Budapest Bomber” Erdei retained his WBO light-heavyweight title with a one-sided decision over Germany’s Thomas Ulrich on Saturday in Germany.

The standout of the night was Frenchman Jean-Paul Mendy, a ‘96 Olympian, who stepped in with Dallas Vargas, the most prominent legally deaf fighter in the whole world.

Former pound-for-pound king Roy Jones Jr. returned from the dead Saturday night to easily decision Prince Badi Ajamu in Boise over 12 one-sided rounds.

First off, heavyweight Sultan Ibragimov is not all that he was cracked up to be. Tysonesque? Um, not really… High volume puncher, an all action guy with sharkish tendencies? Not so much.

He took shots from some legit heavy hitters, like Lyle, Norton, Holmes and Weaver. Now Scott Ledoux is ready to enter another arena and take his chances.

About 4,000 spectators were in attendance at the famed Velodromo Vigorelli for The Night of Three Crowns. This was a huge success by Italian standards. In recent years, the boxing shows held in Milan never drew more than 1,500 people.

Kelly Pavlik, from the fabled Midwest fight town Youngstown, Ohio, defended his NABF middleweight title with a sixth-round technical knockout of Bronco McKart, from Monroe, Mich., in a scheduled 12-round bout at the Mohegan Sun Casino last night.

Garry Delaney, the 35-year-old former cruiserweight/heavyweight who fought out of England, was sentenced to at least 11 years behind bars for killing Paul Price, age 23, with a single punch in an October incident.

Garry Delaney, a British cruiserweight/heavyweight who fought as a pro from 1991-2005, was convicted yesterday of killing man with a punch.

Showtime, the Avis to HBO’s Hertz (or is it the other way around?) has been diligently hacking away at the acknowledged cable giant, HBO.