The World Boxing Super Series has announced that the inaugural season will feature ALL four reigning cruiserweight champions. WBO titlist & Olympic gold medal winner Oleksandr Usyk (12-0, 10 KOs) has officially joined the revolutionary bracket-style elimination tournament that already features unbeaten champions Yunier Dorticos (WBA), Mairis Briedis (WBC) and ...
Undefeated bantamweight Oscar “Jaguar” Negrete (17-0, 7 KOs) scored an eighth round TKO against Sergio “El Frio” Frias (18-6-2, 9 KOs) to claim the vacant NABF title at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
Unbeaten IBF lightweight world champion Robert Easter (20-0, 14 KOs) retained his title with a twelve round unanimous decision over mandatory challenger Denis Shafikov (38-3-1, 20 KOs) on Friday night at the half-full Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.
Szpilka and Kownacki spoke to press at Krolewski Jadlo Restaurant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn before heading to Johnny's Café in Queens for a meet and greet with fans.
Easter faces a very rugged foe in Shafikov (38-2-1, 20 KOs), 32, of Russia, who is trained by the renowned Abel Sanchez. Shafikov is the former European junior welterweight champion and has twice boxed for lightweight world titles, losing unanimous decisions to Miguel Vazquez in Macau, China, in 2014 and ...
Junior lightweight world titleholder Vasyl Lomachenko and unified junior welterweight world champion Terence Crawford, two of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, will defend their crowns in August live on ESPN.
Robert Easter Jr 134 vs. Denis Shafikov 134.5
(IBF lightweight title)
Floyd Mayweather admits he's not the same dominating boxer he was 20 years ago or even 5 years ago but he's still gonna beat that ass. The 40-year-old boxer hit the gym Wednesday night to put in some more training time for Conor McGregor and posted video of his workout. ...
Canelo Alvarez says there's only one way his fight with Gennady Golovkin's gonna end with GGG getting knocked the hell out! The boxing superstar tells there's a zero percent chance their superfight goes the distance and there's "no doubt" Golovkin will hit the canvas for the first time in his ...
Los Angeles can be the backdrop for developing fighters, many of them from the Mexican-American community, where a love for the fight game runs deep. Before most of the boxing world knew their names, coach and gym manager Armando "Mando" Huerta watched two of them -- Abner Mares and Leo ...
