The International Association of Amateur Boxing (AIBA) named Ukrainian Oleksandr Khyzhniak, world champion of 2017 at middleweights, the best adult boxer of 2017. The best woman boxer of the past year was the silver medalist of the Olympics-2016 Dutch Nahka Fontaine (75 kg). Russians Anastasia Shamonova and Nikita Piskunov ...
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Sochi, Russia, in the main event of which IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev (25-0, 18 KOs) will meet WBA champion Yunier Dorticos (22-0, 21 KOs) in the semifinal of the World Boxing Super Series. The boxers start to enter the ...
The meeting of the IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev (25-0, 18 KOs) and WBA champion Yunier Dorticos (22-0, 21 KOs) on February 3 in Sochi is an excellent example of almost equal opponents, who are heavy punchers, and have approximately equal chances of winning, even from bookmakers' point ...
IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev (25-0, 18 KOs) and WBA champion Yunier Dorticos (22-0, 21 KOs) passed the official weigh-in procedure on the eve of their fight on February 3 in Sochi in the semifinal of the World Boxing Super Series. Gassiev showed 90.3 kg on the scales, ...
Former heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin commented on his possible fight on March 31 in Cardiff against local David Price. The win in this fight may open the road to the winner of Anthony Joshua - Joseph Parker bout, who will meet in the main event of the evening ...
At the stake of the meeting of two unbeaten world champions on February 3 in Sochi between Murat Gassiev and Yunier Dorticos, in addition to IBF title, there will be a full WBA belt. The Association management decided to transfer Denis Lebedev to the status of champion ...
Regis Prograis's fight (20-0, 17 KOs) against Viktor Postol (29-1, 12 KOs) for the vacant title of interim WBC super lightweight champion, scheduled for March 9, will take place in a rather unusual place - in Deadwood, South Dakota, USA, in the arena of one of the local casinos. The ...
Unbeaten 25-year-old Ukrainian heavyweight Alexander Teslenko (11-0, 9 KOs) signed a promotional contract with Lou DiBella. Teslenko will fight under the banners of the new company on February 7 in New York. Teslenko's opponent in the 8-round battle will be an American Keenan Hickman (6-2-1, 2 KOs). Before that, the ...
Last Saturday in the semi-final of the World Boxing Super Series Oleksandr Usyk (14-0, 11 KOs) got the majority decision win over Mairis Briedis (23-1, 18 KOs) at the Riga Arena. Thus, the Ukrainian defended his WBO title in the cruiserweight division, added WBC belt, and became the ...
The debut press conference of Amir Khan and Phil Lo Greco ended prematurely when the Canadian insulted the British's bride. For this Khan poured a glass of water on Lo Greco's head and was ready to rush at him if the guard had not intervened.
