Vice-president of the National League of Professional Boxing of Ukraine Alina Shaternikova expressed the opinion that Alexander Usyk was very risky, agreeing to fight with Murat Gassiev in Moscow.
Undefeated heavyweight Trevor Bryan (20-0, 14 KOs) scored a TKO victory in the fourth over BJ Flores (34-4-1, 21 KOs) at the Celebrity Arena in Phoenix, Arizona, and won the vacant interim WBA heavyweight title. In the course of the battle Flores was six times on the floor.
In the main event of the evening at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, Joseph Diaz Jr. (27-1, 14 KOs) in a hard fought battle won a unanimous decision over WBA featherweight champion Jesús Rojas (26-2-2, 19 KOs), but could not get the belt, because the day before he failed the ...
World middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin continues preparations for the rematch with the Mexican Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, which is scheduled for September 15 in Las Vegas. A boxer from Kazakhstan prepares in his traditional training camp of his coach Abel Sanchez in Big Bear, California. In the US, the duel will ...
Live broadcast of the boxing evening from the Arena "Avalon" in Hollywood, California, in the main event of which WBA featherweight champion Jesus Rojas will meet Joseph Diaz Jr. On the eve of the fight at the weigh-in, Diaz could not make the 126 pound limit, and even in the ...
Heavyweights BJ Flores (34-3-1, 21 KOs) and Trevor Bryan (19-0, 13 KOs) underwent an official weigh-in procedure on the eve of their fight in Phoenix, Ariz., at the stake which would suddenly be the title of "interim" WBA champion. The weight of Bryan was 236.8 pounds, Flores was 226.8 pounds.
Featherweight Joseph Diaz Jr. was unable to make a 126 pound limit on Friday night and would not be able to challenge the title of Jesús Rojas in a fight to be held on Saturday at the Avalon in Hollywood, California.
The exhibition rematch between former heavyweight champions Vitali Klitschko and Lennox Lewis may take place at the boxing evening in the Kiev Sport Palace on October 2. The organizers are considering also another venue for the fight during the WBC congress. This was informed by the vice-president of the National ...
The teams of former contenders for the heavyweight titles Kubrat Pulev and Hughie Fury agreed on terms and will fight on October 27. They will meet for the title of the IBF official contender in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The head of the promotional company "World of Boxing" Andrei Ryabinsky, who earlier made it clear that in the future, the former cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev can meet the undisputed champion Alexander Usyk, noted that so far this battle is not about goes.
