Dmitry Bivol (10-0, 8 KOs) and Cedric "L.O.W." Agnew (29-2, 15 KOs). Will clash in a light heavyweight clash on the undercard of the much-anticipated rematch between Andre "S.O.G." Ward and Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on June 17.
Kell Brook will make his fourth IBF Welterweight Title defense against unbeaten U.S. star Errol Spence Jr. at Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England this Saturday May 27.
Tommy McCarthy and Mike Perez will meet in a crunch Cruiserweight clash at the SSE Arena Belfast on June 10.
Top featherweight prospect Ruben Villa continues to impress early in his professional career. Villa, a southpaw fighting out of Salinas, Calif., picked apart Anthony de Jesus Ruiz to win by fifth round technical knockout at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario on Friday.
Erick Ituarte clinched the vacant Junior NABF Featherweight championship on Friday night by overcoming a third round knockdown by Isaac Zarate to win via 12 round split decision.
George Groves believes the time is right for him to be crowned World Champion when he meets Fedor Chudinov on Saturday, May 27 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield,England.
Leon Dawson, the trainer and Uncle of super middleweight Andre Dirrell is being hunted by Maryland police after sucking punching Dirrell’s opponent Jose Uzcategui after the Venezuelan was disqualified for punching Dirrell after the bell.
By Marc Livitz: Terence "Bud" Crawford made ten rounds of a title defense against Felix Diaz look like a mere walk in the park on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. The supreme masterclass by the still unbeaten champion was more of a sparring session which enabled him to use a southpaw stance for the duration of the contest.
Melrose, Mass. – Greg Vendetti picked up his 10th straight win, stopping Ryan Davis of St. Louis in the first round of a scheduled eight-round junior middleweight bout on Saturday, May 20 at Melrose Memorial Hall.
WBC featherweight champ “Mr.” Gary Russell Jr. (28-1, 17 KOs) made a successful homecoming From the MGM National Harbor with a seventh-round stoppage against a determined Oscar Escandon (25-3, 17 KOs) in the main event of Showtime Championship Boxing cars on Saturday.
Gervonta Davis went on the road in the first defense of his IBF Junior Lightweight World Championship and made a statement with an emphatic third-round TKO of previously undefeated local favorite Liam Walsh in the opening bout of Showtime Championship Boxing from Copper Box Arena in London.
By Derek Bonnett Just one day after a huge triple header featuring Ryota Murata, Ken Shiro, and Daigo Higa in world championship bouts, both Naoya Inoue and Akira Yaegashi put their respective world titles on the line at the very same Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan. Today’s action was brief by comparison, but another shock wave was sent throughout the light flyweight division and one of boxing’s best lived up to his moniker.
The President of the World Boxing Association Gilberto Jesus Mendoza has issued a statement via social media to apologise for the controversial scoring for the vacant WBA super middleweight title clash between Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam and Ryota Murata in Tokyo on Saturday night.
German cruiserweight Noel Gevor says he is confident of causing an upset when he meets former IBF and WBC World Champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk tomorrow at the Hala Arena in Poznan, Poland.
All the boxers weighed in Friday ahead of their respective fights at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Saturday night.
WBC/WBO junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford champion and challenger Feliz Diaz weighed in Friday ahead of their title clash at Madison Square Garden in New York on Saturday night.
By Derek Bonnett Two Japanese boxers captured their first world championships as a professional at Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo, Japan this morning, May 20. A third fell victim to poor scoring. Ryota Murata overcame a slow start to seemingly capture a middleweight strap with a decision over Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam. However, the judges favored N’Dam controversially. Daigo Higa dropped Mexico’s Juan Hernandez six times throughout the six rounds contested to claim a flyweight
By Derek Bonnett In other Japanese action, Japanese Wonder Kid, Kosei Tanaka, put his light flyweight title on the line against little known Angel Acosta at Takeda Teva Ocean Arena in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Tanaka was making the first defense of his title against the Puerto Rican challenger. The two boxers let it all hang out for twelve action packed rounds which saw the champion retaining his title, but the challenger had plenty of room to gripe with the final scores.
By J.R. Jowett reporting from ringside: Hyper-active Marshall Kauffman, now calling himself King’s Prom’ns, is becoming a throwback to the ‘50s, when promoters regularly ran weekly cards.
Sanigar Events return to Bristol on June 23rd with ’Young Guns’ a night of professional boxing at The Dolman Hall, Ashton Gate.