The WBA has declared that the winner of Saturday night’s fight between No. 1 ranked contender Beibut Shumenov (16-2, 10 KOs) and No. 11-rated Junior “Hurricane” Wright (15-1-1, 12 KOs) will become the WBA “regular” cruiserweight champion. The 12-round off-TV bout will take place at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. Shumenov had…
World featherweight champion Lee Selby has accused his British rival Josh Warrington of “running scared†after the Leeds fighter pulled out of talks for a huge domestic showdown this summer. IBF champion Selby was eagerly looking forward to a clash with unbeaten Warrington in either July or August, but negotiations have been halted as the…
BoxNation will air a world title tripleheader exclusively live this weekend as the light-middleweight division takes centre stage. Cuban hotshot Erislandy Lara rematches U.S. Olympian and top contender Vanes Martirosyan as he puts his WBA light-middleweight world title on the line at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas this Saturday night.
Callum Smith is back in action at Goodison Park in Liverpool on May 29, live on Sky Sports. The Super-Middleweight sensation landed the mandatory position in the WBC with a thrilling first round KO win over European champion Hadillah Mohoumadi at the Echo Arena on April 2.
Featherweight world champion Jesus Cuellar and former three-division world champion Abner Mares went face-to-face for the first time Thursday as they hosted media roundtables in Los Angeles ahead of their showdown on Saturday, June 25, live on CBS from Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Showtime Championship Boxing on CBS, presented by Premier Boxing Champions, begins at…
World light heavyweight contender Artur Beterbiev returns to the ring Saturday night, June 7, to defend his WBO International and NABA title belts against Argentinian champion Ezequiel “El Olympico” Maderna in the 12-round main event at historic Bell Center in Montreal, Canada.
The thrilling light-welterweight unification clash between Terence Crawford and Viktor Postol is to be screened exclusively live in the UK on BoxNation on July 23. The pair collide at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas with WBO champion Crawford and WBC title-holder Postol putting their belts on the line to determine the lineal world champion…
Fighting for his young family, as well as to expand the legacy associated with his last name, the son of five-time world champion and 1996 U.S. Olympian Antonio “Magic Man” Tarver – unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Antonio Tarver, Jr. – this past weekend continued establishing his own identity in the ring. After a nine month…
A picture may be worth a thousand words but a stamp is forever. Just ask WBC super lightweight champion”The Iceman” Viktor Postol, who presented a larger than life commemorative stamp of himself to his opponent WBO junior welterweight titlist Terence “Bud” Crawford at today’s Beverly Hills press conference. The undefeated world champions announced their 12-round…
Former WBO junior welterweight champion, “The Siberian Rocky”, Ruslan Provodnikov is deep in training in Indio, Calif. with his trainer Joel Diaz for his June 11 main event bout with John Molina Jr. at The Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. live on Showtime at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. “Knowing exactly the date…
Conor Benn returns to action after an impressive April debut with spots on two World title undercards – Ricky Burns’ vacant WBA Super-Lightweight title clash with Michele Di Rocco on May 28 at The SSE Hydro in Glasgow and Anthony Joshua MBE’s IBF Heavyweight title defence against Dominic Breazeale at The O2 in London on…
Lightweight sensation Devin “The Dream” Haney (5-0, 3 KOs) is a boxing prodigy. The gifted 17-year-old boxer, fighting out of Las Vegas, will make his national television debut May 21, at home, on the “Knockout Night at the D” card. The “Knockout Night at the D” series, presented by the D Las Vegas and Downtown…