Moses Itauma (12-0, 10 KOs) will fight Dillian Whyte (31-3, 21 KOs) on August 16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the “Sky Sports” reported. 20-year-old Itauma has won 12 of his professional fights until now, 10 of them by knockout. Whyte would be bigger test for him.
The strongest ever Eindhoven Box Cup has finished in the Netherlands where Abdumalik Khalokov, Finn Bos and Turabek Khabibullaev won the male awards. Kazakhstan’s Asian silver medallist Daniyal Sabit was well-prepared against Mongolia’s Aldarkhishig Battulga and he controlled all the rounds against his opponent to take the men’s 50kg title. The men’s lightweight (60kg) was […]
Junto Nakatani (31-0, 24 KOs) continued his unbeaten streak. Nakatani on Sunday night in Tokyo defeated Ryosuke Nishida (10-1) and unified WBC and IBF World bantamweight titles. Nishida retired after six rounds. Nakatani was leading on points after six rounds. “Ever since I was at flyweight, I wanted to unify the titles,” Nakatani said through […]
Jai Opetaia (28-0, 22 KOs) defeated the challenger from Italy, Claudio Squeo (17-1, 9 KOs) on Sunday in Queensland, Australia and defended his IBF World cruiserweight title. Fight was one sided and Opetaia finished the encounter in fifth round. Opetaia would like to fight next Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez (47-1), the WBO and WBA cruiserweight champion. […]
Fabio Wardley (19-0-1, 18 KO), clearly behind on cards of all three judges, scored a big one punch KO in round 10 against Justis Huni (12-1) and won the WBA Interim World heavyweight title on Saturday night in Ipswich. Huni was dominating the fight and the scorecards until ninth round were (88:83, 89:82 and 89:82) […]
The Portimao Box Cup opened with its first session in five rings at the Arena Portimao where the junior, youth and elite began their campaigns. Spain’s Jose Pantoja is a well-known name in the international stage, his elder brother is a European Youth medallist. The younger Pantoja dominated the exchanges against Fallou Niong and he […]
Kosovo’s Labinot Xhoxhaj (21-0-1, 16 KOs) has defended his EBU European heavyweight title. Xhoxhaj defeated on Saturday night in Hamburg the undefeated Mourad Aliev (13-1) via unanimous decision. All three judges saw Xhoxhaj as winner (115:113, 114:113, 115:112). For Xhoxhaj it was the first title defense. He won the EBU title on November last year […]
Ireland’s Rathi Abuladze won his youth final by knockout in the Portimao Box Cup today afternoon in Portugal’s top event. Following Joao Negrita’s heroic success at the schoolboys 38kg weight class, two Irish boxers as Conor Dowds and Hughie Lee Nevin captured the show in the final of the junior light middleweight (70kg). Dowds competed […]
Several schoolboys and junior talents shined in the final day at the Portimao Box Cup in Portugal today and among them Brule, Bequet, Sanchez and Snodden were the best gold medallists. Portugal’s Alexy Brule enjoyed the support of the local crowd and the Portimao-based boxer won the schoolboys’ 38kg weight class against George Petherick today. […]
The outstanding Eindhoven Box Cup delivered excellent battles in the quarter-final stage of the competition and the winners are now guaranteed medallists. Mongolia’s Enkhjargal Munguntsetseg was bronze medallist at the 2023 Women’s World Boxing Championships and she was an Olympian boxer also in Paris. The Mongolian had a difficult first round against Hungary’s 20-year-old Laura […]
