The Ring began awarding championship belts in 1922 (the year the magazine was founded). It stopped awarding world titles from 1989 through 2001. The 1990s was a modern Golden Age for the sport, featuring many great champions and superstars (like Oscar and Julio Cesar Chavez Sr). As part of The Ring’s ongoing 100-year anniversary celebration,…
David Morrell is set for his first appearance in Las Vegas this weekend and will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) super middleweight championship against Yamaguchi Falcao as part of the main event featuring Gervonta Davis taking on Ryan Garcia at the T-Mobile Arena. The 25-year-old Cuban champion has taken just a few fights to…
Luis Rodriguez got a new victory in his career on Friday night, when he defeated Roger Guerrero by unanimous decision at the Pandeportes Combat Coliseum, in Panama City, to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas belt at super middleweight. Rodriguez won by scores of 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94, which resulted in a unanimous…
The second fight between Bektemir Melikuziev and Gabe Rosado, which will take place next Saturday, April 22 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, will have the World Boxing Association (WBA) Inter-Continental super middleweight belt at stake. The Uzbek and the Puerto Rican descent have unfinished business and that is why their fight is one…
Britain’s Zelfa Barrett will face American Jason Sanchez for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental super featherweight title this Saturday at the Cardiff International Arena in Wales. Barrett and Sanchez face a very important challenge for their careers as they have the opportunity to retain a regional title that will allow them to move up…
World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas featherweight champion Raymond Ford will make another defense of his regional crown against veteran Jessie Magdaleno at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio. Ford, 24, is a technically gifted fighter who has held the championship since 2021. The American has been fighting between his country and…
Takuma Inoue and Liborio Solis will step into the ring at the Ariake Arena in Koto Ku, Japan, to contest the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) bantamweight belt this Saturday. The black and gold belt is currently unowned because Naoya Inoue decided to move up in class and drop all of his 118-pound belts to…
British heavyweight Fabio Wardley will face American Michael Polite Coffie this Saturday for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) continental belt at the O2 Arena in London. Wardley vs Polite will be on the undercard of an event that will feature the return of Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin in the main event. Wardley is…
Prospect Milan Prat defeated Abel Mina on Saturday at the Grand Elysée venue in Rotherbaum, Germany, and is now the new World Boxing Association (WBA) intercontinental super welterweight champion. The 23-year-old Frenchman scored a knockout in just two rounds to confirm his favoritism in the fight and achieve a resounding victory that ratified him as…
Nathan Heaney will face Jack Flatley in a second straight fight this Saturday with the World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental middleweight title on the line. The bout will take place at the Telford International Centre, Telford, United Kingdom, in the event organized by Queenberry Promotions. Heaney defeated Flatley in their first fight, held last September…
French prospect Milan Prat will face Ecuadorian Abel Mina for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Intercontinental super welterweight belt this Saturday at the Grand Elysée in Rotherbaum. The fight will be the highlight of a night of good action that will also feature heavyweights Felix Langberg and Patrick Korte fighting for the WBA Continental Europe…
Frenchman Christian Mbilli will make the first defense of his Word Boxing Association (WBA) international super middleweight title on Thursday against Ecuadorian Carlos Gongora at the Montreal Casino in Canada. The undefeated Mbilli is 27 years old and a native of Cameroon, although he has French nationality. He has been the regional champion of the…