Boxing came back to life a bit this weekend with world champs Gennady Golovkin and Arthur Abraham winning tough fights on Saturday evening in Europe. Fighting at Le Casino in Monaco, Monte Carlo for the third time in as many years, WBA middleweight “super” champ Golovkin defeated challenger Martin Murray …
Read More »Featherweight Contender Warrington Claims Berlin Stoppage
Josh Warrington warmed up for his WBC International Featherweight title clash with a dominant fifth round stoppage of Edwin Tellez at the O2 World in Berlin last night. Warrington met the Nicaraguan over a scheduled eight-rounds in Germany, with the Leeds star out to get crucial rounds under his belt …
Read More »Doran Comes Out On Top In Prizefighter Middleweights III
Tom Doran put in the performance of his life to stop Cello Renda in the final of the Prizefighter Middleweights III at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on Saturday night. Doran carried an unbeaten record into the ring but, only having one fight since May 2011, the Connah’s Quay man …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Round-Up: Mitchell Wins Eliminator
England’s Kevin Mitchell headlined this weekend’s Boxing as the West Ham supporter won a WBC lightweight title eliminator in style at the massive O2 Arena in London last night. The 30 year old local man faced dangerous Mexican slugger Daniel Estrada, who was coming off a failed WBC title clash …
Read More »Wilder Topples Stiverne To Capture WBC Heavyweight Crown
Bermane Stiverne’s brief heavyweight title reign came to an end last night at MGM Grand in Las Vegas as challenger Deontay Wilder walked out of the arena with an intact undefeated record but more importantly, with new found respect in the Boxing community. Gone is Wilder’s KO streak but the …
Read More »Unbeaten Redkach Blasts Out Veteran Amidu On ShoBox
Undefeated prospect Ivan Redkach (18-0, 14 KOs) was impressive in a sixth-round knockout victory over Yakubu Amidu (19-6-2, 17 KOs), who failed to get off his stool following the sixth round in Friday’s main event of ShoBox: The New Generation from Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa in Cabazon, Calif. Working …
Read More »Japan Welcomes New Year With Massive Fight Cards
Japan’s incredible year end blowout of shows was spread across three venues in two different cities with a total of eight world title bouts on offer. Things kicked off on Tuesday with a three world title contest bill at Tokyo’s 10,000 seat Metropolitan Gym where the world’s top reigning super …
Read More »Stevenson Crushes Sukhotsky To Retain WBC Light Heavy Title
It was lights out for light heavyweight contender Dmitry Sukhotsky on Friday night as the Russian was gunned down by WBC champion Adonis Stevenson at Colisee Quebec in Quebec City, Canada. Stevenson, 25-1 (21), who appeared to be a weight class larger than the challenger, patiently studied his wary adversary …
Read More »Cuellar, Russell Dominate On Showtime Extreme Telecast
Aggressive-minded Jesus “El Jinete” Cuellar (26-1, 20 KOs), of Santa Fe, Argentina, won his ninth in a row and retained his interim WBA Featherweight Championship for a third time with a rock-solid fifth-round knockout over fellow southpaw Ruben “Kanelito” Tamayo (23-5-4, 17 KOs), of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico. The bout occurred …
Read More »Khan, Lara, Lee, Benavidez Big Winners This Weekend
We start on Friday night at Illusions Theater in San Antonio, America where Erislandy Lara, 20-2-2 (12), outpointed Ishe Smith, 26-7 (12), for the WBA light middle title. Southpaw Lara simply was too quick and elusive for Smith, who briefly held the IBF crown in 2013, as the judges awarded …
Read More »Andy Lee Realizes World Title Dreams With Korobov KO
Andy Lee from Limerick, Ireland wakes up this morning as the new WBO middleweight champion following an impressive sixth round stoppage win over Matt Korobov Saturday night in Las Vegas. Lee started the fight by keeping matters at long range and was patience using his jab and picking his punches. …
Read More »Hurd Decisions Sanchez In Harrah’s Philadelphia Main Event
This past Friday at Harrah’s Philadelphia, some of the best young prospects in the country were featured on a six bout card promoted by King’s Promotions and XFE. In the main event, Jarrett Hurd held on the defeat late replacement Emmanuel Sanchez via six-round majority decision on a Middleweight bout.
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