After making her first fight on U.S. soil in 2020, World Boxing Association super featherweight world champion Hyun Mi Choi made a single fight last year and will now seek a new defense on home soil on Aug. 15. On this occasion, she will fight 27-year-old Aka Ringo, the WBO Asian bantamweight champion. Ringo will…
The final press conference for the World Boxing Association (WBA) flyweight title bout between Marlen Esparza and Eva Guzman took place on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas. Both fighters were present at the ceremony and spoke in front of the cameras about their showdown, which will also have the WBC and Ring Magazine belts at…
The bout between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Michael McKinson to be held this Saturday in Fort Worth, Texas, will be a World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight eliminator. Ortiz and McKinson will star as the main event of the evening, which will be at 147 pounds and will pit two young and undefeated fighters against each…
Guatemalan Lester Martinez has set his sights on moving up to the world’s elite and putting his country on the boxing map. Last week he won the WBA NABA silver super middleweight belt by defeating Rodolfo Gomez Jr. in Laredo, Texas. It was another victory for the 26-year-old fighter and a new professional title, which…
Rolly Lambert showed his superiority against Nattapon Plangpimai and defeated him by technical knockout in four rounds to capture the World Boxing Association (WBA) Asian cruiserweight crown. The bout, which took place at the RCA Plaza of Spaceplus Bar, in Bangkok, Thailand, had a great atmosphere and had the Cameroonian as the main protagonist after…
July 30 marked the 138th anniversary of Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey’s coronation as the first world champion with middleweight gloves in the history of modern boxing. Nonpareil is not related to the mythical former heavyweight monarch of the same name from the 1920s. “Nonpareil†fought between 1883 and 1895 and finished his career with a record…
For reasons beyond the control of the World Boxing Association 175 lbs. champion, Hanna Gabriels, and her rival Angie Paola Rocha, her presentation in Colombia, scheduled for August 13 in the coffee city of Cali, had to be postponed. Gabriels was recently notified by the promoter of which she is part of as an athlete,…
Irishman Michael Conlan will return to the ring this Saturday at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast to fight the experienced Colombian Miguel Marriaga. Conlan will reappear five months after his last fight, in which he lost dramatically by knockout to Leigh Wood for the World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight title. The Olympic medalist wants to…
The commitment that Anthony Joshua will have next August 20, when he challenges the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Heavyweight Champion Oleksandr Usyk, will not be easy for him. The Briton wants to regain the black and gold belt, in addition to the IBF and WBO versions, but to do so he will have to…
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Association Championships Committee has announced that the bidding for the super lightweight eliminator fight between Ohara Davies and Sandor Martin will be on August 12 at 10:00 a.m. local time in Panama. The bidding will take place online through the Zoom platform and will be directed by the committee’s director,…
The bidding for the mandatory featherweight bout between the Mexican Leo Santa Cruz and the English Leigh Wood was called for next August 12 by the World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee. The fight will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Panama City, headquarters of the WBA office, and will be made through the Zoom…
Tanes Ongjunta will make the third defense of his World Boxing Association (WBA) Asian flyweight belt this Saturday against Jeny Boy Boca at the Spaceplus Bangkok RCA in Thailand’s capital. The Thai will make a new defense at home against the Filipino challenger and his only goal is to remain as the monarch of the…