Cecilia Braekhus wrote a new page in her history and defended her World Boxing Association Welterweight crown after beating Erica Farías by unanimous decision (99-91, 99-91 and 98-92) at Bergenhus Festning, in Bergen, Norway.
In his cruiserweight debut, former heavyweight contender Mike Perez (22-2-1, 14 KOs) needed just 29 seconds to demolish previously unbeaten late sub Viktor Biscak (10-1, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was Perez’ first fight in more than two years. He immediately ...
The Saturday edition of the 2017 IBHOF induction weekend was a bonus, no matter how you sliced it. While the skies looked hit-or-miss at times, the rain held off, though humidity was at a brutal high leaving boxing fans looking as though they had been trying to reduce weight in ...
Turning Stone Resort & Casino hosted an eight bout card during the IBHOF weekend Friday night. The main event of ten rounds proved to be anti-climactic as super lightweight Regis Progais of Houston, TX overpowered Joel Diaz, Jr of Palmdale, CA. The southpaw Progais hammered Diaz with left hands in ...
Unified Light Heavyweight World Champion Andre “S.O.G.” Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) participated in an international media conference call ahead of his highly-anticipated rematch against former titleholder Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs).
The IBF has cleared the way for a rematch between IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and former champ Wladimir Klitschko. However, Wlad hasn’t committed so far. «Soon I will have to decide whether to step up to the return fight against Anthony Joshua or not. Everybody is speculating. I have ...
Lee Haskins 117.5 vs. Ryan Burnett 117.3
(IBF bantamweight title)
Six months after suffering a crushing knockout loss in a world title fight, junior middleweight contender Julian "J Rock" Williams is returning to the ring.
Interim middleweight world titleholder Avtandil Khurtsidze was arrested and indicted Wednesday in New York as part of a federal government roundup of 33 people accused of involvement in a New York-based Russian and Georgian crime syndicate allegedly involved in racketeering, robbery and murder-for-hire, among other illicit activity.
Gilberto Jesús Mendoza, president of the World Boxing Association, was a special guest at Wladimir Klitschko’s brand, named Klitschko Code, relaunch. The event took place this Wednesday, June 7th, in Hamburg, Germany. Klitschko made a great presentation in which he highlighted his vision on business and how to merge all ...
