By Derek Bonnett Orlando Salido versus Miguel Roman pit two of the toughest hombres of Mexican birth against one another in a sure to be classic, 130-pound match-up with guaranteed Fight of the Year prospects.
By Derek Gionta, ringside: Vasyl Lomachenko continued his rise among boxing’s pound for pound best on Saturday night defeating Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux, retaining his WBO 130 junior lightweight title at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Lomachenko forced him to quit on the stool from a reported left hand injury after the sixth round in their twelve round main event televised on ESPN.
Opening the HBO televised event from Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas is Francisco Vargas battling Stephen Smith in a 10-round super featherweight fight
WBO super featherweight champ Vasyl Lomachenko and challenget Guillermo Rigondeaux made weight on Friday prior to their showdown in Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday.
By Marc Livitz at ringside:Aston “Mighty” Palicte boxed effectively, landed power shots and ultimately closed the show against Jose Alfredo “Torito” Rodriguez in the fifth round by way of a “can’t fail” body shot in the fifth round for the NABF super flyweight title at the Sports Center in the northern Austin, Texas suburb of Round Rock.
Former world light heavyweight champion Jean Pascal went out a winner on Friday after scoring a sixth-round tko win the previously unbeaten Ahmed Elbiali at the in Hialeah, Florida. The end came after 2.06 of the sixth session.
Caleb Truax produces a sensational performance to dethrone Jame DeGale for the IBF Super Middlerweight Championship at the Copper Box, London on Saturday night. Lee Selby retains his IBF Featherweight Title against Eduardo Ramirez via unanimous decision whilst there are big KO wins for both Anthony Yarde and Daniel Dubois.
All the weights from Miami
DeGale And Truax made weight on Friday ahead of their IBF super middleweight title at the Copper Box Arena in London on Saturday night.
Carlos “The Solution” Morales hosted a media workout on Wednesday ahead of his co-main event feature on the Dec. 14 at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
Lee Selby insists that re-aligning with promoter Frank Warren is the final cog in his quest to secure universal recognition as the world’s leading featherweight.
Since debuting in April, 20 year-old 6ft 5inch heavyweight prospect Daniel Dubois Has flattened all his victims inside five minutes
The rematch between Tony Bellew and David Haye will take place on Saturday, May 5 at The O2 in London
The Ali Trophy semi-final bout in the cruiserweight edition of the World Boxing Super Series between IBF World Champion Murat Gassiev (25-0, 18 KOs) and WBA World Champion Yunier Dorticos (22-0, 21 KOs) takes place at the Bolshoy Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia on February 3, 2018.
By J R. Jowett reporting from ringside: With two promoters going head to head on Friday(Dec 1), the first time in anyone’s memory that two shows ran on the same night in Philadelphia, Manny Rivera & Will Ruiz (Hard Hitting Prom’ns) went with their usual venue, the SRO Sugarhouse Casino.
British heavyweight David Price returned after a long lay off to outpoint Kamil Sokolowski over six rounds at the Brentwood Centre in Essex, England on Saturday night.
On a night that Madison Square Garden in New York and the boxing world bid farewell to a boxing legend in Miguel Cotto, Sadam “World Kid” Ali stole the show, winning a unanimous decision victory and the WBO Junior Middleweight World Championship in front of 12,391 fans
In the co-main event at Madison Square Garden in New York, despite suffering severe gashes over both eyes caused by accidental headbutts, WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Rey Vargas defended his title a second time
By Derek Bonnett Given as many times as I’ve called them wrong, I’ll never pass up the opportunity to gloat! As soon as I heard that Miguel Cotto had a planned retirement event and the opponent was a younger and faster Sadam Ali, I instantly recalled Erik Morales versus Zahir Raheem. Now, these two fights did not end up mirroring one another head to head, but, in the end, speed and youth overcame experience and grit in one of the most competitive and accurately scored bouts of 2017.
By Stephen Tobey at ringside in Providence, R.I. – After a slow start, Toka Kahn-Clary wore down John Vincent Moralde and the southpaw from Providence earned a stoppage victory at the end of the seventh round of a scheduled 10-round bout at the Strand Theater on Friday.
