This Monday was special for the promotion of the third fight between Mexico’s Saul “Canelo†Alvarez and Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin. Both arrived in New York for a new stop ahead of the fight on September 17, which included a press conference and a visit to Yankee Stadium. In the afternoon, both fighters had a new…
The Championships Committee of the World Boxing Association (WBA) gave a period of 15 days to negotiate the fight between the WBA super featherweight champion, the Venezuelan Roger Gutierrez, and his official challenger, the Dominican Hector Garcia. The entity sent the official communication to both fighters’ teams, which specifies that the period granted starts this…
American featherweight prospect Raymond Ford once again impressed with a victory over undefeated Richard Medina to retain his World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas title this weekend in San Antonio, Texas. The 23-year-old boxer kept the distance to prevail with authority on cards of 100-90, 100-90 and 99-91 with a good use of his tools. …
World Boxing Association 147lb unified champion Jessica McCaskill successfully defended all belts at the Tech Port Arena in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. The challenger was Mexican Alma Ibarra. The contest started with sparks from the first round. McCaskill came out to battle throwing everything without letting Ibarra think, who at times managed to connect…
Murodjon Akhmadaliev left no doubt about his power last Saturday at the Tech Port Arena in San Antonio, Texas, and retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Bantamweight Super Championship against Ronny Rios with a 12th round technical knockout. The Uzbek also defended his IBF crown in a great performance against the American, in which…
Thai veteran Tewa Kiram will face young Afghan Mohammed Zekria Zamani this Saturday in Bangkok, Thailand, for the World Boxing Association (WBA) Asian super welterweight title. This will be a great clash of experience over youth in which the home fighter will have the responsibility to perform in front of his people against a challenger…
The World Boxing Association (WBA) KO Drugs that took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this week, had memorable moments and one of them was the knockout of Cuban Pablo Vicente over Colombian Manuel Gonzalez. The Antillean connected a spectacular uppercut in the sixth round to knock out the South American to win the international super…
Leandro Jose Blanc became the new World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedelatin Super Flyweight champion with a split decision win over Mexican German Valenzuela on Friday night during KO Drugs Argentina. The Argentine prospect got a good victory over the visitor after battling for 10 rounds to get cards of 96-93, 96-93 and 93-98. The local…
In the closing of the KO Drugs gala, the World Boxing Association 112 lbs. female title was disputed between Argentina’s Clara Lescurat and Mexico’s Maribel Ramirez. After ten rounds, the jury gave a split decision in favor of Lescurat, who became the new champion of the division on Friday night under the lights of the…
In what should have been a tough challenge, Venezuelan Albert Ramirez solved in a fast way with a one round knockout against Argentine Braian Suarez and captured the World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Americas title during the KO Drugs of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The second day of bouts of the festival took place on Friday…
The visit of World Boxing Association President Gilberto Mendoza to Argentina had a positive impact on the historic social program. The final ceremony of the program, this Friday night, was action-packed at the Casino de Buenos Aires. With 5 vibrant bouts of young talent, a week of interesting activities came to an end. From a…
Last night the first boxing date of the 38th edition of the World Boxing Association KO Drugs Festival took place. Four attractive bouts made up the event at the Casino de Buenos Aires. Hugs, smiles, chats of memories with music accompanying the arrivals. The atmosphere was built like a filmic picture of a massive reunion…