The World Boxing Council (WBC) sanctioned two light heavyweight bouts: world champion Adonis Stevenson will meet Badou Jack, and Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Eleider Alvarez will play the vacant title of "temporary" champion.
Heavyweight Iago Kiladze, who will face unbeaten Adam Kownacki of Poland on January 20 in New York, continues training in the hall of the famous American coach Freddie Roach Wild Card Gym. Kiladze trains as a sparring partner of the cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev.
American boxing promotion company Top Rank summed up the results of 2017, presenting to the boxing fans a video with their best boxers in the categories "champions", "contenders" and "Olympians".
World Boxing Association (WBA) has fulfilled what it promised to do in last November, and stripped of two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux of Cuban of his title of "super" champion at 122-pounds.
WBO cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk continues preparations for the January 27 fight in Riga, Latvia, against WBC title holder Mairis Briedis. At the moment, Usyk sparrs at the Olympic base in Koncha-Zaspa near Kiev, Ukraine. Among his sparring partners are Dmitro Kucher of Ukraine and Russian Alexei Papin.
According to Mexican media, former world champion Orlando Salido was arrested on December 31 in Sonora, Mexico, for taking part in a fight in one of the local bars. According to eyewitnesses, the fight broke out when Salido applied force against one of the girls in the bar. During ...
Former world cruiserweight champion Russian Grigory Drozd officially announced information that looked quite obvious earlier: he is not going to return to the professional ring and retire.
Japanese "Monster" undefeated WBO super flyweight champion 24-year-old Naoya Inoue (15-0, 13 KOs) got a TKO victory in the third round over the Frenchman Yoan Boyeaux (41-5, 26 KO). Boyeaux has been on the floor in the first and three times in the third round from body punches. ...
The undefeated WBO super flyweight champion 24-year-old Japanese Naoya Inoue (14-0, 12 KOs) nicknamed "Monster" and his opponent in the fight on December 30 in Yokohama, Japan, the Frenchman Yoan Boyeaux (41-4, 26 KO) passed official weigh-in procedure. Inoue was 115 pounds (52.16 kg), Boyeaux - 113.75 pounds ...
The famous boxing magazine "The Ring" named Vasily Lomachenko the Fighter of the Year. For the first time in the 89-year history of awarding this title, this title was received by a boxer with such a small number of battles in the pros - Lomachenko had only 11 fights. ...
