Fight Results
It was target practice for WBA/Interim WBC middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin as “GGG” belted IBF titlist David Lemieux around the ring for eight rounds at New York’s famed Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. From the start of the bout, Golovkin kept the shorter Canadian fighter at a distance with a razor-sharp jab that battered…
Hometown-favorite Andrzej Fonfara (28-3 16 KOs) out-slugged former world champion Nathan Cleverly (29-3, 15 KOs) over 12 grueling rounds on his way to a unanimous decision on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on Spike from the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. Fonfara and Cleverly exchanged punches throughout the night with neither man yielding an inch of ground….
It was a good Saturday night at the fights at two locations in America and we kick off this week’s report at the outdoor venue StubHub Center in Carson, California. That’s where upstart contender Viktor Postol, 28-0 (12), shocked former world title challenger Lucas Matthysse, 37-4 (34), with a tenth round KO to capture the…
This biggest fight to occur this weekend was a WBC heavyweight title clash between champion Deontay Wilder and challenger Johann Duhaupas at Legacy Arena in the American city of Birmingham. From the first bell, Wilder, who has now made two defenses, both in his hometown, was the quicker man. The challenger sought to eliminate Wilder’s…
There were a brace of good fights this weekend but the big story was Floyd Mayweather Jr’s self proclaimed final appearance, which took place against opponent Andre Berto on Saturday at MGM Grand in America’s fight capitol of Las Vegas. Statistically, Mayweather was far more accurate than Berto and as usual, “Money” didn’t get hit…
Former world champion Austin “No Doubt” Trout, (30-2, 17 KOs) scored a sensational sixth round knockout over contender Joey “Twinkle Fingers” Hernandez, (24-4-1,14 KOs) on Tuesday night in the main event debut of Premier Boxing Champions on FS1 and Fox Deportes’ Toe-To-Toe Tuesdays from a packed house at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California. Working…
It was a very one-sided weekend across the globe with four world titles on the line and only one of those was a test for the defensing champion. We kick things off at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, USA where WBA champion Jamie McDonnell bid farewell to the bantamweight division with a dominant…
In one of the biggest fights this summer, the featherweight bragging rights of Southern California were won by Leo Santa Cruz, who defeated Abner Mares in a thrilling back and forth firefight at Staples Center in the American city of Los Angeles on Saturday night. Former three-weight world champ Mares started off fast, engaging the…
On a hot summer August night, in a specially-constructed ring outside the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, Trevor “The Dream†Bryan remained unbeaten and passed the toughest test of his career with a crowd-pleasing, hard-fought 10-round unanimous decision over Derric Rossy in the main event of a ShoBox: The New Generation tripleheader live on Showtime….
Scottish Promoter Thomas Melville made his intentions clear for all to see with his debut event on Saturday night, even with seriously major dramas leading up to the event. Heading up the show was Glasgow’s former Commonwealth Champion Craig Docherty against Dundalk, Ireland’s Michael Kelly for the vacant WBU Super Welterweight title. The atmosphere was…
Perennial middleweight/super middleweight gatekeeper Marcus Upshaw finally opened the gate to the next chapter of his career last Saturday, knocking out previously undefeated Turkish prospect Bugra Oener at Wynwood Stadium in Miami, to capture the vacant WBC Interim Mediterranean super middleweight title. The 35-year-old Upshaw (18-4-4, 9 KOs) fought in his home state for the…
Just like last weekend, the big fight happened on Friday but this time the result was a massive upset with a longtime world champion gunned down in what was supposed to be his big moment in the sun. WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck was making his 14th consecutive title defense after finally managing to break…