After 7 days spent in the hospital due to Covid-19, Roberto Duran was discharged from San Fernando Hospital in Panama on Thursday.
As part of the first evening of boxing in Kiev, after the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the main event, Aram Fanyan (17-1, 2 KOs) of Sparta Boxing Promotion scored a spectacular KO victory in the first round with precise body punch over Nadzir Bakshiyev (5-10-3) from Belarus. The time was 1:12.
Live broadcast of the boxing event from the arena of the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, in the main event of which there will be a postponed fight of Jose Pedraza and Mikkel LesPierre. Also this evening an intriguing rematch of two-time Olympic champion Robeisy Ramirez against Adan Gonzalez, who caused a sensational defeat to the Cuban in his professional debut last August, should take place.
On August 22 Matchroom Boxing promises to hold a heavyweight bout of David Allen (18-5-2, 15 KOs) and Hughie Fury (24-3, 14 KOs). Negotiations on this meeting are ongoing, and the boxers are close to an agreement, according to Eddie Hearn.
Billy Joe Saunders (29-0, 14 KOs) has announced that he is no longer going to waste his efforts on the meeting Saul Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs), who is due to return to the ring on September 12. They were supposed to cross gloves on May 2, but shortly before the announcement of the duel in the United States, an epidemic of coronavirus broke out.
Alex Saucedo (30-1, 19 KOs) scored a unanimous decision victory over Sonny Fredrickson (21-3, 14 KOs) in the main event of a boxing night in Las Vegas. After ten rounds, the scores were 98-92, 99-91 and 100-90 in favor of a boxer from Mexico.
Live broadcast of the first boxing event in Ukraine after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which will be held in the Atlas concert hall in Kiev, and which will include six amateur Women's boxing league fights and five professional fights.
Jarrell Miller (23-0-1, 20 KOs) took the floor after detecting banned doping drugs in his samples. The American pleads not guilty and claims that he never consciously used anything forbidden.
Oscar de la Hoya, a former world champion in several weight categories and currently a promoter among others of one of the best P4P boxers in the world Saul Alvarez (53-1-2, 36 KOs), argues that Canelo is by far the best fighter in the world for two reasons.
On August 28 at the boxing event without spectators in Indio, California, former world champion in three weight categories Jorge Linares (47-5, 29 KOs) will fight Javier Fortuna (35-2-1, 24 KOs). The WBC Diamond lightweight belt is at stake.
