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On Sunday at Bussum, Netherlands, Nigerian born Amsterdam lightweight Innocent Anyanwu, 18-0-2 (11), saw the victory parade continue as the 26 year old BeNeLux Lightweight and Super Feather Champion dropped Belgium’s Herve De Luca, 14-4-1 (7), twice before finishing him off in the third. This isn’t the first time the …

Winky Wright failed to overcome both his opponent and a two year layoff as the 37 year old former IBF light middle champion was handled by ex-WBO welter kingpin Paul Williams over 12 rounds at middleweight. The pair exchanged leather last night at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas …

A shakeup of the world welterweight rankings took place last night at Sportspalace Drusba in Donetsk, Ukraine as local prospect Vyacheslav Senchenko dethroned beltholder Yuriy Nuzhnenko for the WBA title. 31 year old Senchenko had come into the contest as the unbeaten WBA Intercontinental titlist but was pushed hard last …

Last night at Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, Mexico, WBC Light Flyweight Champion Edgar Sosa continued his reign with a fourth round TKO of challenger Pornsawan Porpramook. Longtime PABA minimumweight champion and two-time world title challenger Porpramook had never been stopped before but the 30 year old Thai could not withstand …

There were a few good shows over the weekend and we kick things off with a cracking Saturday night bill at Tokyo’s legendary Korakuen Hall where there were two Japanese titles at stake. Reigning domestic lightweight titlist Ichitaro Ishii, 21-3-1 (16), had big plans following his OPBF title winning effort …

Edwin Valero continued the most impressive KO streak in boxing last night at the Frank Erwin Centre in Austin, Texas, moving to to lightweight and stopping heavy-handed Colombian danger man Antonio Pitalua to win the vacant WBC title. The Venezuelan southpaw had made four defenses of the WBA Super Feather …

Heavyweight hopeful Alexander Povetkin continued down the path toward a world title shot last night by handling the challenge posed by American visitor Jason Estrada at Burg-Waechter Castello in Dusseldorf. The early rounds were fairly even as the pair mostly jabbed and studied but each enjoyed sporadic success with hard …

Last night at Pepsi Pavilion in Memphis, TN, ex-WBO Light Welter Champion Randall Bailey, 39-6 (35), won an IBF 140 lb title eliminator in emphatic fashion by knocking out Frankie Figueroa, 20-3 (13), in the fourth round. 34 year old Bailey won the WBO crown in 1999 and made two …

If Eddie Chambers hopes to get a world heavyweight title fight based on his winning performance Friday night against Sam Peter, he should take his own advice as he recalled, “I could have done a lot more tonight, but the jab was working extremely well,” after the bout. Chambers worked …

Last night there were three good cards in Europe and we kick off this report at Mehrzweckhalle Grossziethen in Shoenefeld, Germany. European Union Light Middleweight Champion Jimmy Colas, 26-5 (11), was dethroned in his first title defense by Lukas Konecny, 39-3 (19), via majority decision. Haitian born Frenchman Colas saw …

The big action last night was the ten round heavyweight showdown between former WBC Champion Samuel Peter and USBA titlist Eddie Chambers at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Coming into the bout a career heavy 265 pounds, Peter obviously wasn’t there to try and outbox the far quicker …

Two shows last night in the UK with the bigger bill taking place at the Bellahouston Sports Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. Local hero Ricky Burns was in action as the Commonwealth Super Feather Champ put his title belt at risk against former British Champion Michael Gomez in what had turned …