Bantamweight world titleholder Luis Nery won't be stripped of his belt for a failed drug test because the WBC said it believes that the positive finding was the result of food contamination. But, in its ruling on Monday, the WBC also ordered Nery to give former titleholder Shinsuke Yamanaka an ...
Daniel Jacobs makes his return in November in the talent-rich 160 pound division against undefeated middleweight Luis Arias. On Saturday, Nov. 11, Jacobs and Arias meet at NYCB Live, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, in a 12-round showdown that will be televised live on ...
Former world champion Ricardo Mayorga of Nicaragua tells that he will retire in a year or two. 44-year-old Mayorga had already announced his retirement but this April again went into the ring and knocked out Haudiel Zepeda of Mexico. November 3 in Nizhny Novgorod Mayorga will fight Andrei Sirotkin of ...
Christian Hammer signed his contract for the fight with Alexander Povetkin, the fight is scheduled for December 15 in Yekaterinburg. The executive director of RCC Boxing Promotion Alexei Titov reported. "Hammer signed a contract for the fight," Titov said.
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker's team is interested in a fight versus Alexander Povetkin, but much depends on the purse, Parker's promoter David Higgins said.
This was his twentieth TKO victory in twenty fights. Anthony Joshua continues to collect football stadiums in his native Britain and beat attendance records. Even in the battle with the little-known Carlos Takam, 80 thousand spectators come to his fight. Premature stopping? Let's argue...
Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) defended his heavyweight titles by stopping Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs) in 10th round. Referee in the ring Phil Edwards decided to intervene when Takam began to miss heavy blows, although continued to defend himself and throw out blows, which left questions to the "prematurity" ...
Ex-boxing champ turned "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Victor Ortiz struck a plea deal in his DUI case and he's on thin ice for the next 3 years. Ortiz was arrested on Sept. 24 in Ventura County, CA around 7 PM when cops pulled over his BMW and smelled booze.
A live broadcast of the boxing event from the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, UK, in the main event of which IBF and WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) will defend his titles in a fight against Carlos Takam (35-3-1, 27 KOs).
It's good that the quick witted promoter Eddie Hearn overcame Kubrat Pulev’s trauma and less than two weeks before the fight founded a substitute in the face of the more or less decent Carlos Takam. It's bad that even "more or less" in relation to Anthony Joshua at the stage ...
