Darren Barker of Barnet, London, sadly lost out to Felix Sturm of Cologne, in Stuttgart, Germany, last night, when he was stopped by his corner in round two of the fight. ‘Dazzling’ Darren was defending his IBF Middleweight Title, which he won by Split Decision over Australia’s Daniel Geale in …
Read More »Maliganggi, Lara Win, Bika Draws, Alexander Dethroned
In the much hyped “Battle of Brooklyn” that took place last night at New York’s Barclays Center, Paulie Malignaggi pulled away from Zab Judah over 12 rounds, winning a wide decision in a bout for the NABF welter strap to headline a big show. Judah, 42-9 (29), dropped Malignaggi, 33-5 …
Read More »WBC Cruiserweight Champ Wlodarczyk Stops Fragomeni In Chicago
Reigning WBC cruiserweight champ Krzysfor Wlodarczyk of Poland faced of against Italy’s Giacobbe Fragomeni in a third clash between the pair as they met last night at the UIC Pavillion in Chicago, IL. They first met in Italy in 2009, with the much shorter Fragomeni hitting the canvas in the …
Read More »WBA Feather Champ Chris John Stunned By Simpiwe Vetyeka
The curse of Rocky Marciano strikes again as longtime WBA featherweight champ Chris John was denied improving his record to 49-0 by South African spoiler Simpiwe Vetyeka, who took John’s crown and undefeated record at The Thunderdome in Perth, Australia last night. The pair wasted no time studying the other, …
Read More »Liborio Solis Knocks Off Daki Kameda But Doesn’t Get WBA Title
Venezuelan Liborio Solis defeated Japan’s Daiki Kameda by split decision on Tuesday at Colyseum Bodymaker in Osaka, Japan. The fight was originally scheduled as WBA and IBF super flyweight unification, but Solis failed to make the required weight of 115 pounds so he lost the title on the scales. However, …
Read More »Hard Punching Champs Stevenson, Kovalev KO Challengers
It was the night of the iron fist in Quebec City, Canada last night as light heavyweight world champions Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev ended the challenges of Tony Bellew and Ismayl Sillakh in devastating fashion at Colisee Quebec. Englishman Bellew, 20-2-1 (12), started strong by going after Haitian born …
Read More »Spadafora Turned Back From World Stage By Perez
10 years after his reign as IBF lightweight champion, Paul Spadafora finally got to within spittin’ distance of the world stage again but was thwarted in his attempt to capture the Interim WBA light welter strap by Venezuela’s Johan Perez at Mountaineer Casino in Chester, West Virginia on Saturday night. …
Read More »Kauffman Quickly Dismantles Barnett In Reading
Before a raucous crowd of almost 5,600 patrons at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA, WBA number-10 ranked Heavyweight Travis Kauffman destroyed late replacement Jason Barnett inside of one round to capture the WBU Intercontinental championship. The show was promoted by King’s Promotions. Kauffman came out and boxed well until …
Read More »Anthony Mundine Retires “Sugar” Shane Mosley In Sydney
Australian Anthony Mundine won the World Boxing Association 154 pound International title on Wednesday after defeating American Shane Mosley at Allphanes Arena Olympic Park in Sydney, Australia. Mosley could not answer the bell for round seven, and Mundine was declared the winner, improving his record to 45-5 with 27 KO’s.
Read More »George Groves Shocks Carl Froch Until Controversial Stoppage
In a Fight of the Year brawl, super middleweights George Groves and Carl Froch tangled spectacularly for the latter’s IBF and WBA super titles last night at Manchester’s Phones 4u Arena. The media build up to the bout had been long and full of bad blood with Groves incensing Froch …
Read More »Pacquiao Makes Triumphant Return By Outclassing Rios In China
In the first round, Rios adopted the Juan Manuel Marquez strategy of hanging back and looking for the right hand counter but lacking the Mexican icon’s quickness and precision counter-punching abilities, was on the receiving end of Manny Pacquiao left hands to the head and body. Brandon Rios reverted to …
Read More »Hernandez KO’s Alekseev In Germany To Retain IBF Belt
IBF cruiserweight king Yoan Pablo Hernandez returned to action after a year out due to injuries, facing the challenge of ex-European titlist Alexander Alekseev in an all-southpaw battle last night at Stechert Arena in Bamberg, Germany. Russian born, Hamburg based Alekseev won the first two rounds with a razor sharp …
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