Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO) and Saul Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) passed the mandatory 30 days weigh-in according to WBC rules before their rematch on September 15 in Las Vegas. The fight will take place in the middleweight category, and both boxers are already close to the weight limit.
Olympic silver medalist Joe Joyce (5-0, 5 KOs) announced that he signed a contract with Al Haymon, manager and adviser of many stars of professional boxing. The 32-year-old Briton also recently began training with Abel Sanchez, the coach of Gennady Golovkin and Murat Gassiev among others.
Vitali Klitschko and Lennox Lewis in the forthcoming WBC congress in Kiev this fall will still enter the ring, but will compete not in boxing match, but in chess. "We will play chess in the ring," said 52-year-old Lewis in an interview to the Daily Mail. "We're too old to ...
Hizni Altunkaya (30-2, 17 KOs) is the main candidate for a meeting with former cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (30-2, 22 KOs) who will return to the ring on September 7 in the boxing event in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The fight between Kubrat Pulev and Hughie Fury at the boxing evening in Sofia on October 27 is officially confirmed by the promoters of both boxers. At stake is the title of the IBF official heavyweight challenger for the title, owned by Anthony Joshua. Promotional bids for this fight were ...
Ivan Kirpa, the coach of former world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (34-1, 24 KOs), said that he was pleased with the first stage of preparation of his ward, which was held in Kislovodsk, Russia. On September 22 at Wembley Arena in London, Povetkin will try to take away the titles ...
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 ...
