Ekow Essuman (22-1, 8 KOs) stunned former undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor (19-3), defeating him on Saturday night in Glasgow, UK via unanimous decision. Fight was for vacant WBO Global welterweight title. All three judges scored the fight in favor of Essuman (116:112, 116:113 and 115:113). “I remember a lot of stuff from when we […]
The fifth and last competition day delivered outstanding U17 and U19 finals at the 74th edition of the Bornemissza Memorial Tournament in Eger, Hungary. Romania’s Madalin Calugar won the first U17 male title in the Bornemissza Memorial Tournament, the youngster dominated his 46kg final bout against Ukraine’s Zakhar Melnyk in Eger. Ukraine’s Yevhen Horvat is […]
IBF World cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia (27-0, 21 KOs) will defend his title on June 8 in Queensland, Australia. He will face Italy’s Claudio Squeo (17-0, 9 KOs). Opetaia was supposed to fight Squeo on May 13, but the fight was postponed for few weeks because of minor injury that Australian suffered in training camp. […]
WBC World bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani (30-0, 23 KOs) would welcome a potential clash with Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez (21-0, 14 KOs), who is WBC champion in super-flyweight division. Nakatani will face Ryosuke Nishida on June 8 in Tokyo, Japan in a unification fight against IBF champion Ryosuke Nishida (10-0, 2 KOs). Nakatani is a three-division […]
The U15 boys have been crowned at the fourth competition day at the 74th edition of the traditional Bornemissza Memorial Tournament in Eger, Hungary. Latvia’s Silvestrs Vasilevskis defeated a neighbouring rival for the title of the 44kg, Estonia’s Martin Uletjonok. His teammate, Luka Bondarenko had a harder job against Hungary’s Martin Homai but he had […]
Former world super-lightweight champion Liam Paro (25-1, 15 KOs) will fight for the first time at home since October 2022. Paro will face Jonathan Navarro (18-1, 9 KOs) in Cairns, Australia on June 25. Will be a 10 rounder. For Paro will be first fight since he lost the IBF World super-lightweight title to Richardson […]
Another fantastic session, the third competition day took place at the 74th edition of the Bornemissza Memorial Tournament in Eger, Hungary. Hungary’s Noel Farkas was not the favourite against Ukraine’s David Horvat who has Hungarian roots, but he exceeded the previous expectations and won this 40kg bout among the U15 boys. Latvia’s Silvestrs Vasilevskis caused […]
Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) announced his return to the ring at age 46. Pacquiao will face WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios (29-2-1, 18 KOs) on July 19 in Las Vegas. He is aiming to become the boxing oldest welterweight champion. “I’m back. On July 19, I return to the ring to face WBC Welterweight […]
A marathon program with 116 bouts took place in the second competition day at the 74th edition of the Bornemissza Memorial Tournament in Eger, Hungary. The traditional Bornemissza Memorial arranged for the U19, U17 and U15 boxers and for both genders in Hungary’s historic city where 510 boxers are participating for the medals and prizes. […]
The last part of the semi-finals were held at the ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships in Colombo, Sri Lanka today where 12 nations secured at least one final spot. Tajikistan’s Muinkhodzha Muminov is only 19-year-old but he had the strong experience from the past to keep his opponent’s speed in the first semi-final […]
