This Saturday’s Kovalev-Shabranskyy HBO World Championship Boxing® telecast will include a battle between two of the light heavyweight division’s biggest punchers when Sullivan Barrera and Felix Valera square off at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Below is the scouting report for this exciting match-up:
Undefeated IBF Welterweight World Champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. will make the first defense of his title when he takes on former two-division world champion Lamont Peterson on Saturday, January 20.
By J.R. Jowett reporting from ringside: After a tearful “retirement” in this same ring all of three months ago, “Cornflake” LaManna was back at Atlantic City’s Claridge Hotel on Saturday.
David Haye has been forced out of the rematch with Tony Bellew after injuring his bicep in freak accident.
Jerwin Ancajas shattered Jamie Conlan’s dream as he stopped the Irishman in six rounds, retaining his IBF Super Flyweight Championship in front of Conlan’s hometown fans.
By Steve Bateson: Jerwin Ancajas shattered Jamie Conlan’s dream as he stopped the Irishman in six rounds, retaining his IBF Super Flyweight Championship in front of Conlan’s hometown fans.
Mike Gavronski became the new WBA-North American Boxing Association Super Middleweight champion by defeating Andrew Hernandez in the main event of Battle at the Boat 113 on Saturday at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash.
Giovani Santillan the No. 7 rated welterweight by the WBO, delivered a masterful performance in knocking out Dodzi Kemeh in the fourth round Friday night in Thompson Boxing Promotions’ “New Blood” main event.
By Steve Bateson: It took just one punch and around ten seconds for Zolani Tete to knock out fellow South African Siboniso Gonya, retaining his WBO Bantamweight Championship in Belfast,Northern Ireland.
By Derek Bonnett Julian Williams and Ishe Smith met head on at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ten round clash, one of Smith’s most entertaining bouts in years, was contested in the junior middleweight division and presented the winner with a great likelihood for another world championship bout. Williams entered the ring just one victory removed from his fifth round stoppage at the hands of Jermall Charlo. Smith had won two in a row, but was absent from the ring for over a year.
Travis Hanshaw put on a near flawless performance to win the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Light Heavyweight title on Friday night, November 17, at the Boyd County Community Center in Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
Former WBC super middleweight champ Anthony Dirrell claimed six round technical decision win over Denis “Momma’s Boy” Douglin at the Dort Federal Event Center Flint, Michigan on Friday night
Carl Frampton climbs off the canvass to defeat Horacio Garcia in his homecoming fight whilst Jamie Conlan is stopped in six by Jerwin Ancajas for the IBF Super Flyweight Championship
Mike Gavronski and Andrew Hernandez both made weight for Saturday’s WBC-NABA Super Middleweight championship fight at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma.
Kai Robin Havnaa is confident of extending his unbeaten record on Saturday when he travels to Germany to face the experienced Georgian Ramazi Gogichashvili in an eight-round cruiserweight contest.
Jono Carroll will be out to boost his World ranking when he fights for the vacant IBF Intercontinental Super-Featherweight title on Saturday’s ‘Frampton Reborn’ fight card at Belfast’s SSE Odyssey Arena.
Golden Boy Promotions and Cancun Boxing initiated their new partnership in exciting fashion as Jose “Chiquiro” Martinez captured the NABO Super Flyweight Title by defeating Jesus Martinez via a brutal shot to the liver in the fourth round of the scheduled 10-round main event of the latest edition of Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN at the Poliforum Benito Juarez in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico.
All four boxers made weight Friday ahead of their respective world title showdowns at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Saturday night.
Ferdie “The Fight Doctor” Pacheco, an integral part of Muhammad Ali’s cornerman team, passed away at the age of 89.
WBO welterweight champ Jeff Horn, form Australia, is confident he can defeat American Terence Crawford, the WBO mandatory contender, should the pair clash or Horn’s title in 2018.