WBA regular middleweight champion Rob Brunt (24-1, 16 KOs) will hold the first title defense on February 15, 2019. His opponent will be 21-year-old Khasan Baysangurov (17-0, 7 KOs). Brant vs Baysangurov will headline the professional boxing event in Hinckley, Minnesota, where Brant has had 11 fights.
The undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk received many awards on his results of 2018. Usyk has been recognized as the best boxer by the most reputable sports channels and publications in the world, including ESPN, Sports Illustrated, BoxingScene and Yahoo Sports. Nevertheless, the athlete himself, by his own words, does not give much importance to this.
Hot ring-girls of Top Rank promotion company congratulated boxing fans with the New Year holidays. For the sake of this video, the girls dressed in short red dresses and put on Santa Claus caps.
Former cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev will have several fights in Russia in 2019. This was informed by the Secretary General of the Russian Boxing Federation Umar Kremlev.
Manny Pacquiao (60-7-2, 39 KOs) commented on Floyd Mayweather's last bout against Tenshin Natsukawa in Japan. 40-year-old Filipino published in social networks New Year's resolution, which referred to the performance of the American in Japan.
As the year comes to a close, take a look back at all the best knockdowns, exciting exchanges, and brutal knockouts of 2018. What a great year for the sport of boxing let's see what 2019 brings. We wish HBO would upload their best fights from the year. Still we can't wait to see what 2019 brings for Boxing and MMA.
During the RIZIN 14 at Saitama Floyd Mayweather Jr., in less than a round went through a young and much smaller kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa who capitulated after two minutes.
As expected, the fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Tenshin Nasukawa turned out to be a common farce from a sporting point of view. From the first bell, the Japanese kickboxer showed absolutely nothing in the ring with the legend of professional boxing and was stopped in the first round after being on the floor three times. Floyd for the New Year's sparring earned 9 million dollars.
Former WBA and IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev said that he would enjoy a fight between Denis Lebedev and Oleksandr Usyk, and, if possible, would even attend this fight in Russia or Ukraine. As Lebedev’s manager Vadim Kornilov said earlier, the WBA decided that Usyk and Lebedev should fight before March 10, 2019.
In the main event of the evening at the Ota City arena in Tokyo, Japan, the WBO super featherweight champion Masayuki Ito (25-1-1, 13 KO) successfully defended his title, winning a TKO victory over the previously undefeated Yevgeny Chuprakov (20-1 , 10 KO). The Russian boxer's corner refused to continue at the end of the 7th round after a very one-sided bout. The time was 2:11.
