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.
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.
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.
Former British light heavyweight champ Hosea Burton has made his intentions known, calling out undefeated Anthony Yarde, man to man, to his face.
Tevin Farmer will defend his IBF Super-Featherweight title against Francisco Fonseca at Madison Square Garden in New York on December 15, on the undercard of Canelo Alvarez challenging Rocky Fielding for the WBA Super-Middleweight title.
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.
Joshua Buatsi will defend his WBA International Light-Heavyweight title against Australia’s Renold Quinlan at The O2 in London on December 22.
Liam Williams is in full agreement with thinking that jumping up a weight to take on a knockout artist who nobody else fancied fighting is the sort of challenge that presses his buttons.
Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said that any negotiations for the WBA/IBF and WBO heavyweight champion to defend his titles against WBC champ Deontay Wilder will no be made public for fear of jeopardising a unification battle between the pair.
Less than two weeks before his fight against Mexican star Saul “El Canelo” Alvarez, Briton Rocky Fielding spoke to the media through a teleconference attended from his native United Kingdom.
Kell Brook and Michael Zerafa took part in the final press Conference Thursday, just two days before they do battle in Sheffield, England on Saturday night.
Oliver Flodin and Abdul Khattab clash in a Scandinavian showdown on the undercard of Dina Thorslund’s WBO Female Super Bantamweight title defence against Alesia Graf on January 19 at the Struer Energi Park in Denmark.
