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.
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.
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.
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.
WBC Final Ruling Regarding Luis Ortiz Issued By World Boxing Council Board Of Governors
In October of 2010 Ruddy Encarnacion felt unlucky to only get a draw against Jean Pierre Bauwens, so he believed he had unfinished business in the rematch on Friday night, December 1, with the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Lightweight title on the line.
Former IBF Bantamweight Champion Lee Haskins will return to action on December 15th at the Merthyr Leisure Centre in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.
Puerto Rican boxing legend Miguel Cotto made weight for the very last time Friday night as he prepares for the final fight of a memorable career.
On Saturday at Madison Square Garden, World of Boxing hosted a media roundtable with WBA Light Heavyweight World Champion Dmitry Bivol.
Unbeaten light heavyweight Ahmed Elbiali will look to stamp his contender status when he faces former champion Jean Pascal in the 10-round main event from the Hialeah Park in Miami, Florida on December 8.
Anthony Yigit and his opponent Joe Hughes both made weight today ahead of their European Super Lightweight Championship fight tomorrow at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, United Kingdom.
Unbeaten welterweight world champion Errol Spence Jr. and former champion Lamont Peterson went face-to-face for the first time Wednesday at a press conference in Brooklyn to discuss their world title showdown headlining action on Saturday, January 20
With the show sold out a week in advance, why did they have a press conference? But they did. And it was good.
Anthony Yigit has signed a contract extension with Team Sauerland.
Welsh wizard Lee Selby intends to cement his standing as the leading light in Britain’s featherweight division by sizzling in the fourth defence of his IBF belt against unbeaten Mexican Eduardo Ramirez at London’s Copper Box Arena on December 9th.
Heated words were exchanged at the kickoff press conference before the Ali Trophy semi-final bout between WBA Super World Champion George Groves and IBO-Champ Chris Eubank Jr. at the Manchester Arena on February 17, 2018.
Martin J Ward is aiming to crown the best year of his career by landing the vacant European Super-Featherweight title against Juli Giner at a sold-out York Hall, Bethnal Green on Wednesday December 13.
A big jump in the super lightweight rankings will be on the line Saturday, December 16 when Cletus "Hebrew Hammer" Seldin returns just more than a month after a dominating KO to take on highly regarded Yves Ulysses, Jr