By Ron Valderrama: Sadam Ali defeated a crafty Johan Perez last night in Tucson, picking up the vacant WBA International welterweight title. The event was held at the Casiino Del Sol and was presented by Golden Boy Promotions in Association with Showdown Promotions and televised on ESPN
The term "Theatre of the Unexpected" is often used in Boxing, and on Friday night July 28th at the Paramount in Huntington, Long Island, NY, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing certainly provided the capacity crowd with something they won’t soon forget.
By Jason Pribila: BROOKLYN – “Big Baby” Jarrell Miller talked the talk and then walked thru Gerald Washington in a battle of heavyweights fought as chief support of the untelevised portion of the Adrien Broner – Mikey Garcia main event.
By Jason Pribila: Brooklyn – Showtime Boxing continued their banner year by televising the much anticipated Mikey Garcia – Adrien Broner junior welterweight showdown at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Irish sensation Katie Taylor stopped Brooklynite Jasmine Clarkson after three rounds of action in the unbeaten fighter’s U.S. debut.
Adrien Broner and Mikey Garcia weighed inside the junior welterweight 140lbs limit on Friday 24 hours ahead of their junior welterweight clash at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday night.
Kemahl “Hitman” Russell made a triumphant return 0n Wednesday, landing a vicious one-punch knockout of Nigel Edwards in Kingston, Jamaica. The stoppage victory was part of a card for the Wray and Nephew Contender Series, which Russell himself won in 2015.
All fighters made weight today at the official weigh in, held at The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel, for tomorrow night’s today at the "KO Night Boxing" Rumble on the Water 2" event, airing live on CBS Sports Network (7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET start) from The Queen Mary’s outdoor venue in Long Beach, California.
Cyclone Promotions has announced that Carl Frampton’s comeback, scheduled for this Saturday (July 29), has been canceled due to opponent Andres Gutierrez suffering an undisclosed accident.
WBA, WBC Diamond Lightweight Champion Jorge “El Niño de Oro” Linares will put his titles and 11-fight win streak on the line Saturday, September 23 when he takes on Olympic Gold Medalist Luke Campbell in a 12-round main event from Los Angeles’ “Fabulous” Forum.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has ordered the bout between light heavyweight champ Welshman Nathan Cleverly and Dmitry Bivol.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) Championships Committee has ordered the bout between Dominican Claudio Marrero, current Interim Featherweight Champion, and Puerto Rican Jesus Rojas, number two in the 126-pound division ranking.
Next week in Los Angeles, three-time world title challenger and the IBF top-rated lightweight contender Ray Beltran will be defending his NABF and NABO lightweight titles against former two-time interim WBA super featherweight champion and current WBA No. 1 contender Bryan Vasquez from San Jose, Costa Rica Beltran.
Four-division world champion Adrien Broner and three-division world champion Mikey Garcia went face-to-face Thursday at the final press conference two days before they headline on Saturday, July 29 from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The first contest of the World Boxing Super Series will be the cruiserweight quarter-final between WBO World Champion Oleksandr Usyk (12-0, 10 KOs) and Marco Huck (40-4-1, 27 KOs) at the Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin on September 9th.
Three of Team GB’s Rio Olympians Joshua Buatsi, Lawrence Okolie and Joe Cordina continue their pro journey’s in the third edition of the JDNXTGEN series on Friday September 1 at York Hall in Bethnal Green.
Katie Taylor says she’s itching to break into the US market when she makes her Stateside debut in Brooklyn on Saturday night (July 29)
Next week, two-division world champion and pound for pound superstar Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs), of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine, who has won his last five fights by knockout, returns to a Los Angeles ring for the first time in over three years when he headlines an all-action card, on Saturday, August 5, at Microsoft Theater
The rematch between IBF and WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and former titleholder Wladimir Klitschko has been pencilled in to take place in Las Vegas on November 11, assuming Klitschko triggers the rematch clause he is entitled to after he was defeated by the Briton back in April .
Team Sauerland has signed British cruiserweight prospect Mikael Lawal on a long-term promotional contract.