The top fight card over the weekend took place at the Armory in America’s capital Washington DC, as WBC super middle champ Badou Jack tangled with former IBF titlist Lucian Bute. Bute started the contest on overdrive, presenting a constantly moving target and throwing lots of punches. The challenger took …
Read More »World Weekend Roundup: British Boxing Kicks Into Overdrive
British Boxing took a big step forward this weekend with Anthony Joshua destroying IBF champion Charles Martin at the O2 Arena in London, England and the UK now boasts two world champions in the heavyweight division. The 6’5 tall Martin was awarded the vacant title earlier this year in less …
Read More »Joshua Delivers World Title Win On Big London Matchroom Bill
Anthony Joshua MBE landed the IBF Heavyweight title with a brutal second round KO win over Charles Martin at The O2, in London, England on Saturday night, live on Sky Sports Box Office. In front of a sold-out crowd at fever pitch in Greenwich, Joshua began with his trademark blistering …
Read More »World Weekend Roundup: Brook, Campbell, Ward Victorious
In another complete destruction job, Kell Brook retained his IBF welterweight title by easily turning back the ambition of mandatory challenger Kevin Bizier on Saturday at the Arena in Sheffield, England on Saturday evening. Brook, 36-0 (25), took Bizier, 25-3 (17), apart with very little difficulty as the Canadian was …
Read More »Hernandez Notches TKO Win Battle At The Boat 105
By the time the seventh round ended, Dionisio Miranda wanted nothing to do with Andrew Hernandez. Hernandez was the more active and accurate boxer from the opening bell, dissecting Miranda with punches throughout their super middleweight clash before winning by seventh-round TKO in the main event of Battle at the …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Roundup: Women In The Spotlight
Club Comunicaciones in Pergamino, Argentina played host to a clash for the vacant IBF Female super feather belt between hometown hero Anahi Esther Sanchez and English southpaw Areti Mastrodouka on Saturday evening. Both fighters entered the bout undefeated while Sanchez was the reigning WBA Interim bantam champ and at 24 …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Roundup: Browne Wins WBA Title
“Big Daddy” Lucas Browne became Australia’s first world heavyweight champion with a stunning stoppage of WBA titlist Ruslan Chagaev on Saturday in front of a packed Colosseum Sport Hall in Grozny, Russia. Browne had never faced an opponent of Chagaev’s skill and started off his first world title opportunity with …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Roundup: Frampton Defeats Quigg
The battle of Britain was decided last night at the cavernous Manchester Arena where super bantamweight world champions Carl Frampton and Scott Quigg tangled over the full scheduled 12 rounds. The long awaited clash was a slow starter as Frampton’s quicker footwork and ever present jab kept the harder punching …
Read More »Khan Stops Quaye To Secure WBU Crown.
On Saturday night, Great Britain’s Tasif Khan secured both the World Boxing Union (WBU) and Global Boxing Union (GBU) Super Flyweight Championships at the Cedar Court Hotel in his hometown of Bradford in the United Kingdom. Khan, who returned to the sport following a two year sabbatical just over twelve …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Roundup: Kovalev Krushes Pascal
IBF/WBO/WBA Light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev solidified his position as the top man in his division by battering bitter rival Jean Pascal in their rematch on Saturday night in the cavernous Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The pair had tangled previously in March, 2015 with Kovalev halting Pascal in the …
Read More »Wilder Retains Title With Ninth-Round TKO Over Szpilka
American heavyweight world champion Deontay Wilder defended his WBC title for the third time with a devastating ninth round knockout of Polish challenger Artur Szpilka on Saturday night, live on Showtime in front of 12,668 fans at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. With WBA and WBO Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury …
Read More »World Weekend Boxing Roundup: De Carolis Picks Up WBA Title
It was one of the slowest weekends in the sport for quite some time but there was one high profile contest that took place on Saturday at Baden Arena in Offenburg, Germany with the vacant WBA super middleweight title on offer. Squaring off in the ring were 20 year old …
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