Brazilian welterweight Alex Oliveira, fighting for UFC promotion, received a shrapnel wound due to a grenade explosion. The incident occurred in the homeland of the athlete on Christmas Eve. Alex saw how one of his family members was involved in a scuffle and tried to sort out the situation, which ...
Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko told about important events that took place in 2018: “It was my first full year outside of big sport. And he was really exciting. I shared my course with students at Harvard and St. Galen. I launched a new course in the format of a ...
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (15-0.11 KO) shared his impression of Oleksandr Gvozdyk (16-0, 13 KOs). The fighter paid tribute to the representatives of the current generation of Ukrainian boxing.
Umar Kremlev, the Secretary General of the Russian Boxing Federation said that the organization was making every possible effort to organize a rematch of the undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KO) against former champion Murat Gassiev (26-1, 19 KO).
UFC may lose profits of about $5 million due to the transfer of the UFC 232 tournament to Inglewood, California from Las Vegas, Nevada after a failed doping test by Jon Jones. This is reported by the head of the organization, Dana White.
Jon Jones does not consider himself guilty of violating anti-doping rules, because of which UFC tournament had to be moved from Nevada to California. About this athlete wrote in his Twitter.
In the fourth defense of his WBC super welterweight belt Jermell Charlo (31-1, 15 KO) sensationally lost on points to Tony Harrison (28-2, 21 KO) in the main event of the evening in Brooklyn, New York.
Jermall Charlo (28-0, 21 KOs) defeated Matt Korobov (28-2, 14 KOs) by unanimous decision at a boxing event in Brooklyn, New York. At the end of twelve rounds, the judges counted it 119-109 and twice 116-112 in favor of the American.
In the main event of the evening in Manchester, IBF featherweight champion Josh Warrington (28-0, 6 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over the former world champion in two weight categories Carl Frampton (26-2, 15 KOs), thus defending his title.
Dillian Whyte (25-1, 18KO) knocked Derecka Chisora (29-9, 21 KO) out in the 11th round. In the eleventh round the fate of the fight was resolved by the huge left hook of "The Body Snatcher", after which Chisora fell unconscious on the floor.
