Former WBA interim super middleweight champion Vincent Feigenbutz (26-2, 23 KOs) scored a twelve round unanimous decision over Norbert Nemesapati (25-6, 18 KOs) in Rheinstetten, Germany. Feigenbutz won by scores of 118-110, 116-112, 117-111 to successfully defend his IBF intercontinental belt. Nemesapati didn’t make weight on Friday, coming in 2.6 pounds over.
Unbeaten WBC #3 featherweight Josh Warrington (25-0, 5 KOs) scored a twelve round majority decision over former world champion Kiko Martinez (36-8-1, 26 KOs) on Saturday night at the First Direct Arena, Leeds, England. Scores were 116-112, 116-112, 114-114. Warrington retained his WBC International featherweight title.
James Toney 248.8 vs. Michael Sheppard 237.4
(WBF heavyweight world title)
Kal Yafai believes he can build something special in Birmingham and wants to unify the Super-Flyweight division as he prepares to make the first defense of his WBA title against Suguru Muranaka at the Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham on Saturday LIVE on AWE TV at 2 PM ET / 11 AM ET
Nicola Adams is just three minutes from British boxing history and a long, long way from adding to her swollen trophy cabinet. Adams fights for the second time as a professional on Saturday night in her hometown of Leeds -- against Mexican Maryan Salazar -- and she will become the first British female professional to compete in a fight over the three-minute round duration.
A postfight video of Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. has emerged on social media. He is seen in what appears to be a hotel room laying on a bed surrounded by about five scantily clad women.
UFC president Dana White has stated his intention to expedite negotiations for a proposed boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, saying that Sunday is "absolutely" his deadline to wrap up a deal with McGregor before beginning talks with Mayweather's team.
2016 Olympian super flyweight silver medalist Mikhail Aloyan won his professional debut over Yader Cardoza of Nicaragua on Friday night at the Arena in Kemerovo, Russia. It was an impressive display by Aloyan who controlled the action in route to a 10 round unanimous decision. The official scores were 98-92 and 100-90 twice. Aloyan won the vacant WBA Asia title.
While unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin's next title defense will come against Canelo Alvarez on Sept. 16 in the biggest fight of the year, the winner will own a slew of title belts and have the mandatory defense obligations that go along with them. One defense requirement will be against the winner of a fight ordered this week between 160-pound contenders Tureano Johnson and Sergiy Derevyanchenko.
There was such concern from the Canelo Alvarez camp about whether Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would make weight for their heavily anticipated fight on Saturday night in Las Vegas that their contract stipulated the fighters hold a secret weigh-in to determine any possible financial penalties minutes before the Nevada State Athletic Commission's official weigh-in, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told on Tuesday.
