Terence Crawford (42-0) has been stripped off his WBC super-middleweight title, after World Boxing Council said that the undisputed champion didn’t pay fee, which is about 300,000 dollars. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced the ruling at the annual convention in Bangkok. WBC then ordered Britain’s Hamzah Sheeraz (22-0-1, 18 KO’s) to fight Christian Mbilli (29-0-1, […]
One of the last international competitions of 2025, the European U17 Boxing Championships will be held in Kienbaum, Germany between December 8 and 18. The U17 age group, or previously known as the juniors, means the 2009 and 2010 born boxers, they are eligible to participate in Kienbaum. Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, […]
Per-Ake Persson Poland’s Nikodem Jeżewski (26-2-1) meets Croatian Marko Calic (16-2) December 13 in Sopot (Poland) with the vacant WBC International Bridgerweight title at stake. Both men have in the past campaigned as cruiserweights with mixed success. Jezewski was stopped by Lawrence Okolie in London in 2020 and suffered an upset loss to German Artur […]
Unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) wants to fight next the former WBC World champion Deontay Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs). Usyk described Wilder as his “first option”. Ukrainian made history stopping Daniel Dubois in Wembley in July, becoming two-time undisputed champion in heavyweight division. He was undisputed also in cruiserweight division. Usyk […]
Per–Ake Persson German former EBU light-heavy champ Conny Velensek has passed away at the age of 82. Velensek won the EBU title in 1971 with a split decision over Piero Del Papa and retained it later the same year with a draw against Chris Finnegan in Berlin but lost the rematch in Nottingham in 1972. […]
All of the semi-finals of the Bolivarian Games have concluded in Peru where Venezuela and Colombia were the bests in the recent four competition days. Peru’s Ayacucho is the host of the multisport event where boxing is one of the sports in the agenda. Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El […]
Teofimo Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) is set to face Shakur Stevenson (24-0, 11 KO) on January 31. Fight will be for WBO World super-lightweight title, which Lopez holds. Fight will be in New York and will be livestreamed in DAZN. The announcement was made by Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority […]
Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov defended his throne at the European U23 Boxing Championships in Budapest with amazing performance. Radoslav Rosenov achieved a silver medal at the 2017 European Schoolboys Boxing Championships, which he followed with two titles among the juniors, and same double among the youth boxers. He claimed gold medals in the European U23 Championships […]
Unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KO) has been pulled from Saturday scheduled unification fight against WBA champion Erislandy Lara, after he tested positive for a banned substance. The WBO and IBF World champion tested positive for banned substance meldonium in test taken on November 15 by VADA. Alimkhanuly proclaimed his innocence. “I have […]
Norway’s Paris Olympian and Youth World Champion Sunniva Hofstad not only claimed the title of the women’s 75kg weight class at the European U23 Boxing Championships in Budapest but she was announced as the Best Female Boxer of the competition. Norway’s Sunniva Hofstad was too strong for her final opponent, Ukraine’s Olha Pylypchuk and she […]
