By Marc Livitz: Andre Ward impressively got past Sullivan Barrera in an IBF light heavyweight title elimination bout on Saturday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA. Ward’s first real stint in the division was a dominant one as he easily outclassed the Cuban fighter whose vast amateur record didn’t effectively translate into professional success.
By the time the seventh round ended, Dionisio Miranda wanted nothing to do with Andrew Hernandez. Hernandez was the more active and accurate boxer from the opening bell, dissecting Miranda with punches throughout their super middleweight clash before winning by seventh-round TKO on Saturday.
Nicky Blackwell is in an induced coma as of Sunday morning after suffering a bleed on the brain following his brave but unsuccessful battle with Chris Eubank Jr at Wembley Arena in London on Saturday night.
By Marc Livitz at ringside in San Antonio, TX: A memorable night of fights took place on Friday night at the San Antonio Events Center in the presence of a raucous hometown crowd. Javier "Pit Bull" Rodriguez was unexpectedly thrust into the evening’s main event slot when the promotion’s star attraction, Ivan "Bam Bam" Najera failed to come near the bout’s contracted weight on Thursday afternoon.
Opening up the HBO televised card from the Oracle Arena is a 10-round featherweight battle between Joseph Diaz Jr. and Jayson Velez. The main event features a light heavyweight showdown between undefeated fighters Andre Ward and Sullivan Barrera.
Super middleweights Dionicio Miranda and Andrew Hernandez both made weight for their main event at Saturday’s Battle at the Boat 105 at the Emerald Queen Casino in the Tacoma.
On a night of knockouts, unbeaten super lightweight Regis “Rougarou” Prograis of Houston knocked out Mexico’s Aaron Herrera at 2:17 of the first round Friday in the main event from Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Okla.
Corcoran out-pointed Danny Butler over 10 rounds to claim the Vacant WBO Intercontinental Junior-Middleweight Championship at York Hall in London on Friday.
Chris Eubank Jr claimed the British middleweight title in style at the Wembley Arena in London on Saturday night with an emphatic 10th round stoppage win over the brave but outgunned champion Nicky Blackwell.
Kell Brook says he knows that mandatory challenger Kevin Bizier will be desperate to get his hands on his IBF World Welterweight title when they meet at the Sheffield Arena on Saturday night.
All eight fighters, including the six undefeated ones, made weight Thursday for the Showtime televised quadrupleheader Friday at the Buffalo Run Casino in Miami,Oklahoma.
Andre Ward’s Trainer Virgil Hunter talks to HBO ahead of the undefeated American’s eagerly awaited return to the ring Against Sullivan Barrera this Saturday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland,California on Saturday.
Both of the main event combatants for the Friday, April 15, edition of ShoBox: The New Generation are entering the final stages of their training camps in preparation for their matchup of unbeaten bantamweights.
IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook and challenger Kevin Bizier weighed Friday ahead of their clash in Sheffield,England on Saturday night.
Before WBC Middleweight Champion, Canelo Alvarez and former two-time world champion Amir "King" Khan step into the ring at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 7 three hard-hitting bouts have been confirmed to get fight fans ready for the main event.
In September 1968, Jimmy Ellis retained the World Heavyweight title with a controversial fifteen-round decision over Floyd Patterson at the Råsunda Football Stadium in Stockholm. 48 years later, big-time boxing returns to the Swedish capital when the Nordic Fight Night hits the Hovet on April 23.
Trainer Freddie Roach recently conducted a question and answer interview to discuss Manny Pacquiao’s farewell bout against Timothy Bradley at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on April 9.
British middleweight champion Nick ’Bang Bang’ Blackwell has scoffed in the face of Chris Eubank Jr.’s claims he’s ’bland’ and ’boring’ and promised to take the fight to him when they meet on Saturday night at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London.
Gary Sykes has warned Luke Campbell MBE that he’s not fighting to make up the numbers and will hand him a second pro defeat as they clash for the vacant Commonwealth Lightweight belt at the Sheffield Arena on Saturday night.
Lenny Daws and Madrid’s Ruben Nieto will again clash for the European super-lightweight title after Daws’ promoter, Mick Hennessy, struck a deal with Team Nieto to stage the rematch in England before the summer.