Olympic champion James DeGale has signed professional terms with promoter Frank Warren.

Warren has also signed Billy Joe Saunders, who lost in the second round at the Olympics and Frankie Gavin, the 2007 world amateur champion, who was sent home before the Games when he failed to make his required weight. All three boxers will make their professional debuts early in 2009.

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Joe Calzaghe was fighting for the 46th - and possibly final - time in a 15-year professional career, got off the canvas from a first-round knockdown to beat eight-time, four-weight world champion Jones at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

Welshman Calzaghe won on points. He lost the first round but won every one of the 11 remaining rounds on all three judges' scorecards to retain his Ring Magazine light-heavyweight championship title.

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Manchester's Hatton, 29, faces the Mexican at home in  the City of Manchester stadium on 24 May.

There had been fears he might have to pull out of the bout. "A couple of weeks ago I had a virus but I just had to work around it and take a few days off," said Hatton. "I'm fine now. It was blown out of proportion, mainly by my dad but the fight was never in jeopardy." ... more