Although WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has been approved by the governing body to rematch Tyson Fury, WBA/IBF and WBO titleholder Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn is still hopeful they can clash in a unification battle at Wembley Stadium on April 13.
By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Thabiso Mchunu won back his ABU Cruiserweight Title and retained his South African Cruiserweight Title via 12 round unanimous points decision against Thomas Oosthuizen at Emperors Palace in the East of Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday.
By Steve Bateson: Jono Carroll and Guillaume Frenois fought out a split draw in what was billed as a final eliminator for the IBF Super Featherweight Championship on the Brook Vs Zerafa.
By Marc Livitz at ringside in Austin, TX: Reshard “Too Quick” Hicks remained disciplined and focused for everything Jairo Castaneda threw at him on Saturday night at the Austin Sports Center. An entertaining bout which began much up for grabs slowly turned into well fought display by Hicks for the World Combat Federation International Welterweight title.
In the evening’s co-main event in Austin on Saturday, Iskander Kharsan of Kazakhstan earned a hard fought, entertaining unanimous decision victory over Jorge Ramos for the vacant WBC Youth Intercontinental Super Bantamweight as well as World Combat Federation World Youth titles.
Rene “El Gemelo” Alvarado of Managua, Nicaragua was victorious against Carlos “The Solution” Morales of Los Angeles in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight Title Eliminator on Saturday night.
Their first fight ended with a dramatic knockout that shook up the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The rematch between Eleider “Storm” Alvarez and Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev will bring two of the light heavyweight division’s biggest names to The Star.
Undisputed female world welterweight champion “The First Lady” Cecilia Braekhus made yet another successful defence of her WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, and IBO titles at the Stub Hub Center in Carson, California on Saturday via 10 round unanimous decision over Magdziak-Lopes of Poland.
Croatian heavyweight star Filip Hrgovic scored a unanimous points win over former World title challenger Kevin Johnson last night at the KC Drazen Petrovic in Zagreb.
By Lwazi Ndzobongo: Yanga Sigqibo won the vacant WBO Inter-Continental junior bantamweight Title by beating Keyvin Lara over twelve rounds here at the Orient Theatre in East London, South Africa. The judges scored the fight unanimously 117-112, 116-112 and 117-111 giving Sigqibo the nod after twelve competitive rounds.
All the boxers made weight Friday ahead of their fights on the HBO televised triple header in Carson, California on Saturday.
Filip Hrgović and Kevin Johnson both weighed in Friday ahead of their heavyweight showdown tomorrow night at the KC Drazen Petrovic in Zagreb.
The World Boxing Council has voted through the Board of Governors, and made a unanimous agreement to sanction a direct rematch between WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury.
WBO middleweight champ Demetrius Andrade was reportedly arrested Thursday in Providence, Rhode Island and charged with possession of a firearm without a license.
WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and WBO lightweight titleholder Jose Pedraza weighed in Friday before their title unification battle at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday.
J.R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Promoting his brains out, Marshall Kauffman (Kings Prom’ns) ran yet another show at Philadelphia’s 2300 Arena, on Friday night.
Kell Brook scored a wide but uninspiring unanimous decision over the tough Michael Zerafa in front of his hometown crowd in Sheffield on Saturday night.
WBA lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko and WBO lightweight titleholder Jose Pedraza exchanged pleasantries on a brisk New York afternoon on Thursday two days before their title unification battle, Saturday evening at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Emmanuel Rodriguez gives insights on preparations for his Bantamweight Ali Trophy semi-final against Japanese ’Monster’ Naoya Inoue and predicts to face Zolani Tete in the final.
Former world champion Kell Brook made weight his WBA final eliminator against Australian rival Michael Zerafa ahead of Saturday’s bout in Sheffield, England on Saturday.
