With chilling efficiency, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez retained his WBC middleweight title by turning the ambition of challenger Amir Khan into dust with a single right hand on Saturday night at Las Vegas’ brand new T-Mobile Arena. Coming up from the welterweight division, Khan had been in control of the contest during the first four rounds,…
The top fight card over the weekend took place at the Armory in America’s capital Washington DC, as WBC super middle champ Badou Jack tangled with former IBF titlist Lucian Bute. Bute started the contest on overdrive, presenting a constantly moving target and throwing lots of punches. The challenger took the early rounds by outworking…
British Boxing took a big step forward this weekend with Anthony Joshua destroying IBF champion Charles Martin at the O2 Arena in London, England and the UK now boasts two world champions in the heavyweight division. The 6’5 tall Martin was awarded the vacant title earlier this year in less than adversarial circumstances when his…
In another complete destruction job, Kell Brook retained his IBF welterweight title by easily turning back the ambition of mandatory challenger Kevin Bizier on Saturday at the Arena in Sheffield, England on Saturday evening. Brook, 36-0 (25), took Bizier, 25-3 (17), apart with very little difficulty as the Canadian was absorbing powerful shots from the…
Club Comunicaciones in Pergamino, Argentina played host to a clash for the vacant IBF Female super feather belt between hometown hero Anahi Esther Sanchez and English southpaw Areti Mastrodouka on Saturday evening. Both fighters entered the bout undefeated while Sanchez was the reigning WBA Interim bantam champ and at 24 years of age, was far…
The biggest fight of the weekend took place at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England as old foes Terry Flanagan and Derry Mathews went at it again, this time for Flanagan’s WBO lightweight crown. It was the second installment of the Terry and Derry show as the pair had initially tangled way back in October,…
“Big Daddy” Lucas Browne became Australia’s first world heavyweight champion with a stunning stoppage of WBA titlist Ruslan Chagaev on Saturday in front of a packed Colosseum Sport Hall in Grozny, Russia. Browne had never faced an opponent of Chagaev’s skill and started off his first world title opportunity with understandable caution. For a 6’5…
The battle of Britain was decided last night at the cavernous Manchester Arena where super bantamweight world champions Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg tangled over the full scheduled 12 rounds. The long awaited clash was a slow starter as Frampton’s quicker footwork and ever present jab kept the harder punching Quigg behind a high guard…
IBF/WBO/WBA Light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev solidified his position as the top man in his division by battering bitter rival Jean Pascal in their rematch on Saturday night in the cavernous Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The pair had tangled previously in March, 2015 with Kovalev halting Pascal in the eighth, a stoppage that some…
It was one of the slowest weekends in the sport for quite some time but there was one high profile contest that took place on Saturday at Baden Arena in Offenburg, Germany with the vacant WBA super middleweight title on offer. Squaring off in the ring were 20 year old German KO specialist Vincent Feigenbutz…
It was the shot heard ’round the Boxing world on Saturday night as British heavyweight Tyson Fury pulled off what nearly everyone outside of his camp thought was impossible – defeating longtime undisputed champion Wladimir Klitschko at Esprit Arena in Dusseldorf. It was easily the biggest upset of a dominant reigning champion by a British…
The bang heard around the boxing world last night was the sound of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez gaining the WBC middleweight title with a unanimous decision victory over now ex-four weight champion Miguel Cotto at Mandalay Bay Casino in America’s fight capital of Las Vegas. Cotto started well, bouncing lightly on his toes to launch successful…