Boxing Results

Haroon Khan will bounce right back into action next month in Wigan, following his demolition of Bulgarian Stefan Slavchev, who came into the bout on the heels of six straight losses. The Bolton youngster looked calm and assured in the ring last Friday night at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens, as he …

It wasn’t as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, but Andre Ward probably doesn’t feel too far removed from that activity after the WBA “Super” super middleweight champion blunted the challenge of Edwin Rodriguez last night in a very ungainly and clinch filled contest. The bout didn’t take place …

Naoko Fujioka became the new super flyweight female champion of the WBA after defeating Naoko Yamaguchi in the traditional Korakuen Hall of Tokyo. Fujioka kept the gold and black belt after winning the unanimous approval of all three judges 97-92, 97-92, 98-91. The new 115 lb queen knocked down Yamaguchi …

Last night in his hometown at the Cowboys Dance Hall in San Antonio TX, super bantamweight Mario Barrios (1-0, 1 KO) looked electrifying in his pro debut. Barrios, who was a decorated amateur, showed great poise and tremendous power as he dominated his opponent Rigoberto Moreno wining by first round …

The American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas was the scene a big, action packed Saturday night fight card that saw Mikey Garcia take apart WBO super feather champ Rocky Martinez along with three other high profile contests. After a feeling out first round, ex-WBO featherweight titlist Garcia was decked …

One of Boxing’s most exciting fighters was back in action last night at New York’s Madison Square Garden as middleweight Gennady Golovkin retained his WBA and IBO belts with an eight round throttling of local man Curtis Stevens. But it wasn’t all Golovkin all the time as the challenger proved …

Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing presented another top night of boxing action last night at the Hull Ice Arena. Australian – Lucas Browne stopped Richard Towers of Sheffield in the fifth round of their Commonwealth Heavyweight title final eliminator. Taller Towers kept Browne at bay with his long-reaching jab in …

Juan Carlos Gomez kept his word when returning to the cruiserweight division with a bang on Friday night in Dachau, Germany. “The Black Panther” seemed to feel very comfortable back at 200 lb. landing nice combinations at will against an overmatched Adnan Buharalija from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Gomez dropped his …

At the packed Motorpoint Arena, Sheffield, last night, local man Kell Brook scored a fourth round stoppage of Ukrainian Vyacheslav Senchenko to win the IBF welterweight title eliminator. Both men got off to a tentative start targeting their opponent with the left, but ‘The Special One’ Brook – picks up …

IBF light heavy champion Bernard Hopkins continued his assault against the aging effects of time, once again turning back the clock to post a victory over a much younger opponent, in this case Karo Murat, last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. In contrast to the somewhat defensive and reserved …

At the York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, on Friday night, Freddie Turner of Canning Town won the vacant BBBofC Southern Area Light Middleweight Title on points (93-94) over Nathan Graham of Aylsbury. The Trad TKO event – billed as ‘Brothers in Arms’, featured six undercard bouts. In Denmark, on Saturday …

Last night at Messehalle in Leipzig, Germany, super middleweight Robert Stieglitz kept hold of his WBO title with a wide points decision over visiting Nigerian opponent Isaac Ekpo. Ekpo, 22-2 (16), had previously boxed domestic-level competition and won regional African belts but his distinct lack of world class experience was …