Saturday night's boxing event from Matchroom Boxing in Sheffield, UK will feature a fight for the WBC super flyweight silver belt between Dalton Smith (15-0, 11 KOs) and Jose Zepeda (37-4, 28 KOs). The event will be broadcast live on the DAZN platform.
A fight between WBA featherweight champion Israil Madrimov (10-0-1, 7 KOs) and Virgil Ortiz (20-0-0, 20 KOs) could take place at a boxing night organized in the United States in the summer.
It has been officially confirmed that Tim Tszyu (24-0, 18 KOs) and Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) will fight on March 30 at Premier Boxing Champions Boxing Night in Las Vegas. At stake in the fight will be the WBO and WBC featherweight titles. Thus, Fundora replaced Keith Thurman, who the day before suffered a biceps injury and was forced to withdraw from the fight.
On May 18 or June 1, a fight between Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) and Conor Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) could take place at a boxing night organized in Saudi Arabia.
Global Combat Group has won the bid to organize the WBC women's bantamweight title fight between Alicia Baumgardner (15-1, 7 KOs) and Delphine Persoon (49-3, 19 KOs).
Dillian Whyte (30-3, 20 KOs), who returned to the ring yesterday with an early win over Christian Hammer (27-11, 17 KOs), is still asserting his championship ambitions.
Frank Warren does not support the idea of WBC chief Mauricio Sulaiman to have the fight for the four heavyweight belts scheduled for May 18 judged by six judges instead of three.
Joe Joy ce (16-2, 15 KOs) earned an early tenth round submission victory over Kash Ali (21-3, 12 KOs) at Queensberry Promotions Boxing Night in Birmingham. Thus, Joyce made a successful comeback after two early losses to Zhang Zhilei. The Brit controlled the course of events in the ring from the first gong, but did not impress with the speed and accuracy of his punches. Ali in turn tried to attack with his right side kick, but lost round after round.
William Cepeda (30-0, 26 KOs) defeated Maxim Hughes (26-7-2, 5 KOs) by fourth-round technical knockout in the main event of Golden Boy Promotions Boxing Night in Las Vegas. In his style, the Mexican set a high tempo from the first gong and broke down the Brit's defense. Hughes' corner took his boxer down after the fourth round. The fight was a qualifier for the IBF lightweight world title.
Emanuel Navarrete (38-1-1, 31 KOs) and Denis Berinchik (18-0, 9 KOs) finalize the final details of the fight on May 18 in San Diego, California, USA. At stake in the meeting will be the vacant belt of the world champion under version WBO lightweight. We should add that Navarrete has already been the champion at flyweight, featherweight and bantamweight. A potential win would give him championship status in the fourth weight limit.
