By Jason Pribila: Brooklyn – Showtime Boxing continued their banner year by televising the much anticipated Mikey Garcia – Adrien Broner junior welterweight showdown at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Irish sensation Katie Taylor stopped Brooklynite Jasmine Clarkson after three rounds of action in the unbeaten fighter’s U.S. debut.
Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia weighed inside the junior welterweight 140lbs limit on Friday 24 hours ahead of their junior welterweight clash at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday night.
Kemahl “Hitman” Russell made a triumphant return 0n Wednesday, landing a vicious one-punch knockout of Nigel Edwards in Kingston, Jamaica. The stoppage victory was part of a card for the Wray and Nephew Contender Series, which Russell himself won in 2015.
All fighters made weight today at the official weigh in, held at The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, for tomorrow night’s today at the "KO Night Boxing" Rumble on the Water 2" event, airing live on CBS Sports Network (7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET start) from The Queen Mary’s outdoor venue in Long Beach, California.
Cyclone Promotions has announced that Carl Frampton’s comeback, scheduled for this Saturday (July 29), has been canceled due to opponent Andres Gutierrez suffering an undisclosed accident.
WBA, WBC Diamond Lightweight Champion Jorge “El Niño de Oro” Linares will put his titles and 11-fight win streak on the line Saturday, September 23 when he takes on Olympic Gold Medalist Luke Campbell in a 12-round main event from Los Angeles’ “Fabulous” Forum.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has ordered the bout between light heavyweight champ Welshman Nathan Cleverly and Dmitry Bivol.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has ordered the bout between Dominican Claudio Marrero, current Interim Featherweight Champion, and Puerto Rican Jesus Rojas, number two in the 126-pound division ranking.
Next week in Los Angeles, three-time world title challenger and the IBF top-rated lightweight contender Ray Beltran will be defending his NABF and NABO lightweight titles against former two-time interim WBA super featherweight champion and current WBA No. 1 contender Bryan Vasquez from San Jose, Costa Rica Beltran.
Four-division world champion Adrien Broner and three-division world champion Mikey Garcia went face-to-face Thursday at the final press conference two days before they headline on Saturday, July 29 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The first contest of the World Boxing Super Series will be the cruiserweight quarter-final between WBO World Champion Oleksandr Usyk (12-0, 10 KOs) and Marco Huck (40-4-1, 27 KOs) at the Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin on September 9th.
Three of Team GB’s Rio Olympians Joshua Buatsi, Lawrence Okolie and Joe Cordina continue their pro journey’s in the third edition of the JDNXTGEN series on Friday September 1 at York Hall in Bethnal Green.
Katie Taylor says she’s itching to break into the US market when she makes her Stateside debut in Brooklyn on Saturday night (July 29)
Next week, two-division world champion and pound for pound superstar Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs), of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, who has won his last five fights by knockout, returns to a Los Angeles ring for the first time in over three years when he headlines an all-action card, on Saturday, August 5, at Microsoft Theater
The rematch between IBF and WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and former titleholder Wladimir Klitschko has been pencilled in to take place in Las Vegas on November 11, assuming Klitschko triggers the rematch clause he is entitled to after he was defeated by the Briton back in April .
Team Sauerland has signed British cruiserweight prospect Mikael Lawal on a long-term promotional contract.
Paul Butler has signed a promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing and will face bitter rival Stuart Hall in an eliminator for the WBA Bantamweight title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on September 30
Paul Butler vs. Stuart Hall – eliminator for the WBA World Bantamweight title and rematch of their clash for Hall’s IBF crown in June 2014 which Butler won via split decision
World Boxing Association (WBA) Interim Champion Dayana Cordero retained her Bantamweight belt this Friday, after beating Argentine Julieta Andrea Cardozo by unanimous decision in Barranquilla, Colombia.