A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Birmingham, UK, in the main event of which former world champion Amir Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) will try to continue his return to the world title in a 12-round welterweight bout against Samuel Vargas (29-3-2, 14 KOs).
A live broadcast of the boxing night from Brooklyn, New York, in the main event of which Danny Garcia (34-1, 20 KOs) and Shawn Porter (28-2-1, 17 KOs) will challenge the vacant WBC welterweight title. In the same evening, Adam Kownacki (17-0, 14 KOs) will face former world champion Charles ...
WBA cruiserweight champion "in recess" Denis Lebedev (31-2, 23 KOs) scored a stoppage victory in the third round over former world title challenger Hizni Altunkaya (30-3, 17 KOs) in the main event of the evening in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Welterweights Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter both made weight on the eve of Saturday's battle for the vacant WBC belt in a broadcast on Showtime at the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn, New York. Garcia weighed in at 146.75 pounds, Porter showed 147 exactly.
Former super lightweight champion Amir Khan had to stand on the scales without clothes to make a 147-pound welterweight limit in the official weigh-in procedure on the eve of the September 8 fight against Samuel Vargas, who showed 146 pounds. Their 12-round welterweight bout will be the main event of ...
On December 8 at the boxing evening in New York, a unification bout in lightweight between Vasily Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) and Jose Pedraza (25-1, 12 KOs) will take place. Bob Arum, the promoter of both boxers, informed about the postponement of the fight. Before this fight was planned for ...
Former cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev is ready to perform in the new season of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS), if necessary. This was informed by Leon Margules, the promoter of Gassiev. "He can [replace]. Now he is recovering from injuries," Margules said.
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson preferred a Russian mixed-style fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov in a fight against Irishman Conor McGregor. Tyson said this at a press conference in Yekaterinburg.
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko talked about his relationship with Lennox Lewis, and also recalled their fight, which took place in 2003 and ended by a TKO victory for Lewis, after the referee decided to stop the fight because of the Klitschko’s cut.
Denis Lebedev of Russia said that he was ready to fight the undisputed cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk anywhere, including Ukraine, the native country of the latter. The WBA in February reported that Lebedev, who did not take part in the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS), was declared "the champion in ...