British welterweight Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) does not give up trying to hold another title fight and focused on WBO champion Australian Jeff Horne (17-0-1, 11 KOs). Sensationally Horn got his belt defeating legendary Manny Pacquiao by judges decision. Khan has not been in the ring since May 2016, when he suffered a heavy knockout defeat from Saul Alvarez.
WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (18-0-1, 12 KOs) scored a stoppage victory in the 11th round over Gary Corcoran (17-2, 7 KOs). In general, the equal fight was stopped when, in the opinion of the referee Benji Esteves Jr., the Briton began to get too many punches. At the time of stoppage, Corcoran earned several cuts and bruises over his left eye.
Superlightweight Mikey Garcia, whom many call one of the few who can give a competitive fight to Vasily Lomachenko, in an interview with well-known video blogger Elli Sekbach shared his impressions of the Ukrainian fight against Guillermo Rigondeaux, which took place on December 9 in New York, and in which the Cuban refused to continue the battle after the sixth round, like the four previous opponents of Lomachenko.
WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares (42-3, 27 KOs) through his Twitter account called out Ukrainian Vasiliy Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) for a fight. The bout may take place in April 2018. Earlier it was reported that Golden Boy Promotion Linares’ promoters is ready to begin negotiations on the fight.
Showtime Sports looks back at a banner year for boxing which featured 29 world title fights including 2017 Fight of the Year front-runner Anthony Joshua vs. Wladimir Klitschko, the most watched bout of the year Keith Thurman vs. Danny Garcia on CBS and the unprecedented Mayweather vs. McGregor event from Showtime PPV.
Ukrainian light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk (14-0, 12 KOs) commented on the victory of Vasily Lomachenko (10-1, 8 KOs) over Guillermo Rigondeaux (17-1, 11 KOs) on December 9 and noted that he was confident in the victory of his compatriot.
Christian Hammer (22-4, 12 KOs) arrived to Ekaterinburg, Russia, for a fight against Alexander Povetkin (32-1, 23 KOs) for WBO International and WBA Intercontinental heavyweight titles. Now Alexander Povetkin occupies the second position in WBA rankings, sixth in the WBO, and IBF places him on the twelfth place. Hammer is on the first place in WBO rankings, the third in WBA and the fourth in IBF.
Russian cruiserweight Alexei Papin (9-0, 8 KOs) will come to Kiev on December 24 as a sparring partner of WBO cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk.
Kell Brook will make his debut at super-welterweight against Sergey Rabchenko at the FlyDSA Arena in Sheffield on March 3.
Former heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin will pass the doping tests after a fight with Romanian boxer Christian Hammer. Since December 5th Povetkin can take part in official fights due to the expiration of disqualification for violation of anti-doping rules. In December last year before the fight against Bermein Stivern the doping test of the Russian showed traces of forbidden ostarin.
