Dokes pizzeria in Prestwich is sadly shutting up shop after three years of serving Italian classics, as well as a highly-rated roast dinner. Chef and owner Michael Clay shared his disappointment ...

1993 — Riddick Bowe easily wins his first defense of his WBA and IBF heavyweight boxing titles by beating Michael Dokes in the first round of their championship bout held at New York’s Madison ...

1982: Michael Dokes knocks out Mike Weaver in the first round to capture the WBA heavyweight title in Las Vegas. 1994: Art Monk sets an NFL record for consecutive games with a reception on New ...

Holyfield has stoppages over Dwight Qawi, Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Michael Moorer, Michael Dokes and Pinklon Thomas. He stopped mostly all of his opponents at cruiserweight. And he dropped ...

(Reuters) - Former world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes, 54, has died after losing a battle with liver cancer, the World Boxing Association said on its website (www.wbanews.com). The American ...

Cape Town - Former WBA heavyweight champion Michael Dokes has died of liver cancer. He was 54. According to the BBC website, Dokes, who won the heavyweight title against Mike Weaver in December 1982, ...

1993 — Riddick Bowe easily wins his first defense of his WBA and IBF heavyweight boxing titles by beating Michael Dokes in the first round of their championship bout held at New York’s Madison ...

Jameson, 68, was a San Jose heavyweight who logged fights against Mike Tyson, George Foreman, Randall “Tex” Cobb, Michael Dokes and Frank Bruno. Jameson has lived in the same duplex in San ...

After losing bids for the World Boxing Association title in 1979 and 1980, Coetzee avenged himself in 1983, when he knocked out the previously undefeated Michael Dokes. Gerrie (pronounced herry ...

Gerrie Coetzee, a hard-punching South African who won a share of the heavyweight championship in 1983 when he knocked out Michael "Dynamite" Dokes, died Thursday following a short battle with cancer.

He knocked out American rival Michael Dokes in the 10th round in Richfield, Ohio, in 1983 to win the WBA belt, a big upset that was celebrated throughout South Africa despite it being fragmented ...