British heavyweight Fabio Wardley will face American Michael Polite Coffie this Saturday for the vacant World Boxing Association (WBA) continental belt at the O2 Arena in London. Wardley vs Polite will be on the undercard of an event that will feature the return of Anthony Joshua vs Jermaine Franklin in the main event. Wardley is…
The former world champion, Japanese Ryota Murata, held a press conference on Tuesday, to announce that he is retiring as a boxer after a successful career in both amateur and professional boxing. Murata is one of the most outstanding Japanese fighters of an entire era, having won an Olympic medal in his career, in addition…
London will witness the return of idol Anthony Joshua, who will fight Jermaine Franklin this Saturday at the O2 Arena, London. Joshua comes from two consecutive losses to Oleksandr Usyk for world title fights, but after those setbacks he announced that he would keep working and now he is back with the intention of regaining…
The bidding for the fight between the World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Minimum Champion, Thammanoon Niyomtrong, and the champion of the category, Erick Rosa, scheduled to be held on Tuesday, March 28 in Panama City, was cancelled after both teams announced to the Championships Committee that they reached an agreement. The pioneer organization received the…
Germany’s Felix Langberg captured the Continental Europe heavyweight belt with a one round knockout over Patrick Korte on Saturday at the Grand Elysée venue in Rotherbaum, Germany. The undefeated fighter continues his rise after a demolishing performance to retain the regional title. The 31-year-old fighter’s power was obvious from the start and Korte could do…
Prospect Milan Prat defeated Abel Mina on Saturday at the Grand Elysée venue in Rotherbaum, Germany, and is now the new World Boxing Association (WBA) intercontinental super welterweight champion. The 23-year-old Frenchman scored a knockout in just two rounds to confirm his favoritism in the fight and achieve a resounding victory that ratified him as…
Filipino Garen Diagan won the World Boxing Association (WBA) Asian minimum belt with a split decision victory over local Huu Toan Lee at the Saigon Sports Club in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was a memorable day with three WBA Asia regional championships in a country where boxing has been growing strongly in recent…
The second of three stages in the 7th Edition of the Gilberto Mendoza International Festival took place this weekend in Barranquilla, Colombia, with more than 40 athletes from eight national leagues that gathered at the Cuadrilátero Élite Gymnasium facilities. With the support of the Colombian Boxing Federation, Alberto Agámez Producciones and the gym itself, the…
Nathan Heaney got the rematch victory over Jack Flatley on Saturday at the Telford International Centre, Telford, United Kingdom, and was crowned as World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental middleweight champion. The two had previously met in September last year and Heaney had won a technical decision in the fifth round after a cut caused by…
There are certainly not many regulations in the history of boxing that have been as important as those popularly known as the 12 Rules of Boxing of the Marquis of Queensberry, spark plugs that have driven and served as an engine and guide to the sport for 158 years. Five of these rules are still…
Seniesa Estrada became unified minimumweight champion by defeating Tina Rupprecht this Saturday night. The American won a unanimous decision at the Save Mart Arena in Fresno, California. The World Boxing Association (WBA) champion got 100-90 scorecards from all three judges to win the WBA crown from the German and now owns both belts. Estrada showed…
The undefeated two-time 168-pound world champion lights up Las Vegas on Saturday night with a career-best performance atop a stacked PBC event on SHOWTIME Psy-Per-VIew. David Benavidez once said, “the little fat kid will never go away, he’s always going to be with me.†The interim WBC World Super Middleweight titlist and former two-time WBC…