Germany’s promotion AGON Sports have announced that they have signed four Cuban Olympic stars, Erislandy Alvarez, Arlen Lopez, Julio Cesar La Cruz and Lazaro Alvarez. All four have already made professional boxing debuts. Erisland Alvarez won gold medal at 2024 Paris Olympics. He is 3-0 as pro boxer. Arlen Lopez won two Olympic golds, as […]
The famous Strandja Memorial Tournament is underway in the capital city of Bulgaria in Sofia which is already the 76th edition in the event’s history. The Bulgarian Boxing Federation has a professional staff to handle big events, major championships and they have three or four international competitions every year. Such strong boxing nations as Uzbekistan, […]
Angelo Pena (11-0, 6 KOs) will defend his WBO Inter-Continental super-featherweight title on April 18 in Bern against former European champion Karim Guerfi (33-7, 10 KOs). It will be a big test for Pena. Guerfi is four times European champion. Pena says this fight is personal for him. “He insulted me repeatedly via Instagram. I […]
The Brazilians will arrange the first World Boxing Cup in 2025 which will be held in Foz do Iguacu between March 29 and April 6. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chinese Taipei, France, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Iran, Kazakhstan, Norway, Panama, Poland, United States of America, and Uzbekistan have already registered to the competition. Brazil earned several […]
Junto Nakatani (30-0, 23 KOs) stopped David Cuellar Contreras (28-1, 18 KOs) in three rounds and defended his WBC World bantamweight title on Monday in Ariake Arena, Tokyo, Japan. Nakatani started the fight fast and Cuellar couldn’t handle the pressure. He dropped Cuellar with a strong left in round three and Mexican couldn’t beat the […]
The President of the Romanian Boxing Federation, Mr. Vasile Citea introduced his opinion about the Dracula Open Tournament in a specific interview to underline their biggest strengths and also their future plans. “We are trying to be better years by years in this important Dracula Open Tournament which is one of the strongest non-elite competitions […]
Luis Nery (36-2, 28 KOs) have returned to winning ways beating on Saturday night in Tijuana, Mexico Kyonsuke Kameda (15-4-2, 9 KOs). Nery stopped Kameda in round seven. Nery lost to Naoyoa Inoue in the fight for undisputed super-bantamweight title in May last year. In the same event Cuba’s heavyweight Frank Sanchez (25-1, 18 KOs) […]
Romania’s trio, Fabian Stroe, Darius Stegari and Daniel Grigorie kept the youth gold medals at the Dracula Open Tournament on home soil. Ukraine’s Ruslan Budnychenko won the first hectic male final in Braila, he defeated Azerbaijan’s Hikmat Mammadov at the minimumweight (48kg). Azerbaijan’s Bilalkhabasi Nazarov earned several medals in major championships therefore his success […]
Ukraine’s Taisiia Pokusai won the battle of the European Champions in the last competition day of the Dracula Open Tournament where the women’s youth finals have finished. Ukraine’s Anna Kurapatova and Romania’s Denisa Duta opened the women’s youth finals at the minimumweight (48kg) in Braila. The Ukrainian knocked down her Romanian opponent in the first […]
Dmitrii Bivol (24-1, 12 KOs) is the new undisputed light-heavyweight champion. Bivol defeated Artur Beterbiev (21-1, 20 KOS) in rematch on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia via majority decision. Two judges saw Bivol as winner (115:113, 116:112) and one scored the fight as draw (114:114). Bivol now holds WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO […]
