Fight Results
Heavyweight Manuel Charr came into his challenge of WBC champion Vitali Klitschko by talking a very good game during the pre-fight build up but once the bell rang Saturday night at the Olympiyskiy in Moscow, the German based Lebanese boxer was never competitive. As he has on so many previous occasions, Klitschko, of Ukraine, used…
Lucas Matthysse powered his way through previously undefeated Olusegun Ajose to claim the WBC Interim Super Lightweight Championship Saturday night on Showtime from The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Matthysse’s power proved to be too much for the game Ajose and after a fantastic display of courage from both fighters,…
The 02 World Arena in Berlin, Germany played host last night to the return of “King” Arthur Abraham as the former IBF middleweight king turned back the clock to give a fine performance in unseating WBO super middle champ Robert Stieglitz. Since transitioning to the super middle division three years ago, Abraham had experienced mixed…
John Joe Nevin lost out in his bid for Olympic gold versus Great Britain’s Luke Campbell at the ExCel in London. The Hull bantamweight was awarded a 14-11 decision from a cracking three rounds of boxing. Campbell took the first 5-3, Nevin responding well with two combos near the end of a frame in which…
© Tom Hogan – Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions Last night at San Jose’s HP Pavilion, local man Robert Guerrero overcame both opponent Selcuk Aydin and a jump of two weight classes to win the vacant Interim WBC welterweight title. A former world champ at featherweight and super feather as well as an Interim lightweight…
He may have lost the WBO super feather title Friday on the scales, but local hero Adrien Broner stamped his entry into the lightweight division with an authoritative fifth round battering of Vincente Escobedo at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, OH. Unable to make the super feather limit by more than three pounds the day…
Mike “El Cangri†Ruiz is the new World Boxing Federation Intercontinental Super Welterweight Champion after scoring an impressive ninth round stoppage over local favorite, and WBF North American titlist, Paul “The Truth†Delgado on Saturday night (July 21) at the beautiful Buckhead Theater in Atlanta, GA to pick up the vacant title.
The animal Elvin Ayala waited so long to unleash is finally on the loose. Working with new trainer Marshall Kauffman for the first time, Ayala (26-5-1, 12 KOs) let his hands fly Saturday night and earned a convincing knockout win over dangerous veteran John Mackey (13-8-3), stopping his opponent with a series of unanswered flurries…
Juan Carlos Burgos emphatically showed the world that he is ready to become a world champion as he stopped previously undefeated Cesar Vazquez to retain the WBO Latino Jr. Lightweight championship in round three of a scheduled ten round bout at the Edgewater Hotel Resort in Laughlin, Nevada.
A weekend of upsets then, well almost, can one count the stoppage of former Iron chinned Chisora an upset? Yeah, I’ll take that. Personally, going into the Haye vs. Chisora fight, I thought the same as other scribes and fans alike, “well it is going two ways, Haye is going to outbox Chisora for twelve…
On Saturday night, former three-time world champion Anthony Mundine scored a seventh round stoppage over former world champion Bronco McKart to make an emphatic statement in his American debut. The IBF North American Middleweight championship bout also marked the inaugural Wealth TV Pay Per View card. Mundine dropped McKart three times in the pivotal seventh…
An upset in the light welter division took place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Saturday night as WBC champ Danny Garcia belted out WBA king Amir Khan over the course of an action packed four rounds. After a long and volatile pre-fight build up, Khan was in no mood to box and the…