On Saturday evening at the Roland Stadium in Paris, the former WBA cruiserweight champion Riad Merhi (32-2, 26 KOs) won a unanimous decision over the 2016 Olympic champion in heavyweight division Tony Yokoi (11-3, 9 KOs).
Devin Haney, the new world champion in the first welterweight according to the WBC, spoke about a possible fight against Ryan Garcia.
Mio Yoshida (17-4) from Japan defeated the Australian Ebany Bridges (9-2, 3 KOs) in the fight for the IBF world bantamweight title. Yoshida successfully attacked Bridges from close range throughout the entire fight and simply outworked the Australian. In the ninth round, Yoshida mercilessly attacked her opponent, and the meeting turned into a one-sided beating. Ultimately, after ten rounds were completed, the judges scored it 99-91, 99-91 and 97-93 in favor of Yoshida.
The head of the promotion company Matchroom Boxing Eddie Hearn reacted to the victory of the new WBC world champion in the welterweight division Devina Haney above Regis Prograis.
Rafael Espinosa (24-0, 20 KOs) quite unexpectedly won by majority vote of the judges Robeisi Ramirez (13-2, 8 KOs) in the main event of the boxing evening in Pembroke Pines. Thus, the Mexican took the WBO world featherweight title from the Cuban.
Already a former WBC world welterweight champion Regis Prograis commented on his defeat Devin Haney. Regis paid tribute to his opponent, saying he was good.
Devin Haney, the newly crowned world junior welterweight champion according to the WBC, commented on his confident victory over Regis Prograis.
Oscar de la Hoya, a famous former boxer and now a successful promoter, reacted to his landslide victory Devina Haney in a duel with Regis Prograis. Oscar wrote on Twitter that he will now try to organize a fight between Devin and his ward Ryan Garcia.
A few minutes ago at the Chase Center in San Francisco, a boxing evening ended, in the main fight of which former absolute lightweight champion Devin Haney made a successful debut in the first welterweight division.
Number two in the IBF heavyweight rankings Otto Wallin complained that the team of the former unified champion Anthony Joshua forced him to agree to a rematch clause in the contract for their fight.
