Per-Ake Persson This past Saturday – November 22 – Chelms, Poland, a fight of the year candidate took place between cruiserweights Michal Soczynski (11-1) from Poland, and Ramazan Muslimov (9-0) of Ukraine. Soczynski was knocked down twice in the first round but floored Muslimov in the second – only to be floored again. Muslimov then […]
The three-times defending champion Radoslav Rosenov of Bulgaria opened his campaign successfully in the second competition day at the European U23 Women’s and Men’s Boxing Championships in Budapest. Ireland’s Thady Patsy Joyce was bronze medallist at the recent World Boxing Championships but he could not repeat that performance in Budapest against Ukraine’s promising Maksym Zymenko […]
Per-Ake Persson Australian-Swedish Linn Sandstrom (12-4-3) won the WBA Gold flyweight title with a very controversial majority decision over Mexican veteran Maribel Ramirez (15-13-4). It was scored an out of line 97-93, 96-94 and 95-95 for a majority win for Sandstrom. Linn Sandstrom fought what might be called a tactical fight which meant that she […]
Per-Ake Persson German light-heavyweight Artur Reis (16-1) won the vacant WBO European title with a split decision over Poland’s Mateusz Tryc (16-3) on Saturday night in Chemnitz, Germany. The judges scored the fight after ten rounds 96-94 and 97-93 for Reis and 96-94 for Tryc. Tryc was the WBO European champion until Saturday. In the […]
Wales’ Owain Harris-Allan and Azerbaijan’s Ali Abdullayev impressed in the first competition day at the European U23 Women’s and Men’s Boxing Championships in Budapest, Hungary today. Poland’s Bartlomiej Roskowicz is member of the elite national team since 2023, therefore he was way too experienced for Switzerland’s Yanis Medina in the opener of the entire championships. […]
David Benavidez (31-0, 25 KO) defended his WBC and WBA World light-heavyweight titles with an impressive performance on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Benavidez dominated the fight against Anthony Yarde (27-4, 24 KOs) and stopped him in round seven. After the fight Benavidez said that he wants to fight next the WBO and WBA […]
Devin Haney (33-0, 15 KOs) became a three-weight world champion, with an impressive victory on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia over Brian Norman Jr. (28-1, 22 KO). Haney captured the WBO World welterweight title which Norman held. Haney dropped Norman once in round two and won via unanimous decision. All three judges saw him […]
Abdullah Mason (20-0, 17 KOs) defeated Sam Noakes (17-1, 15 KOs) in a brutal fight and won the WBO World lightweight title. Mason won via unanimous decision on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Judges scored the fight (117:111, 115:113 and 115:113) in favor of 21-year-old. Mason became boxing’s current youngest men’s world champion. In […]
Per-Ake Persson Super-welter Milan Prat (29-1) won the vacant EBU title by knocking out Belgian Jan Helin (18-5-1) in the ninth round, on Saturday night in Clichy, France. Prat previously held the title in 2022 but relinquished the title and then got his career derailed by an upset loss to the then unheralded German Slawa […]
Per-Ake Persson Spanish welter Aaron Alhambra (18-2) won the vacant EBU Silver title on Friday night in Madrid, defeating Bulgarian Yosif Panov (27:4) via unanimous decision. Scores were 116:111, 116:112 and 115:112. Panov was floored in the tenth but got up and gave Alhambra a tough fight all the way.
