Per-Ake Persson It’s not often Serbian Jelena Janicijevic fights professionally but when she does, she does it well. The now 40-year-old turned pro in France in 2018 and began to make some noise when she knocked out Swedish prospect Joanna Ekedahl (then 8-0) in Denmark in 2019. In 2020-21 she fought for the EBU title […]
Per–Ake Persson Newly crowned EBU Silver heavyweight champion Kem Ljungquist (21-1) has French title holder Mattar Garcia (9-0) as mandatory challenger. Kem also holds the WBA Baltic title and is ranked number nine by the WBA and eyes bigger paydays. It’s doubtful he goes through with a defense of the EBU Silver title. Garcia won […]
Per–Ake Persson International Entertainment Original ApS headed by Bettina Palle won purse bid today in Rome for EBU Silver cruiserweight title fight between champion Seydi Coupe and mandatory challenger, Dane Ditlev Rossing (19-1). Date and site is set to be announced. Coupe (12-0) won the EBU Silver title earlier this year defeating countryman Thomas Faure […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
