Mateusz Masternak (49-6, 32 KOs) will fight Germany’s, Artur Mann (22-5, 13 KOs) on October 4 in Zakopane, Poland for vacant EBU cruiserweight title. Show will be promoted by Knockout Promotions. Mann steps instead of Leonardo Mosquea of France, who relinquished the title due to serious illness, as EBU described.
Vergil Ortiz Jr (23-0, 21 KOs) will defend his WBC Interim World super-welterweight title on November 8 against Erickson Lubon (27-2, 19 KOs). Will be main event of the show promoted by Golden Boy Promotions. It will be a home game for the hard-hitting Ortiz, who is coming off of an impressive decision win over […]
Abass Baraou (17-1, 9 KOs) is the new WBA Interim World super-welterweight champion. Baraou on Saturday night in Orlando defeated the Cuban prodigy Yoeniz Tellez (10-1, 7 KOs) by unanimous decision. All three judges gave the victory to Baraou (117:110, 115:112 and 116:111). Baraou dropped once Tellez in the end of last round and got […]
World Boxing Organization (WBO) have ordered former world champion Chris Billam-Smith (21-2, 13 KOs) to fight Roman Fress (23-1, 13 KOs) for Interim title. Winner of the fight then will have chance to fight the unified champion Gilberto Ramirez (48-1, 30 KOs). “It’s a moment which I waited for a long time. This world title […]
Former world heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois (22-3, 21 KOs) has split from coach Don Charles and started training with Tony Sims. “BoxScene” reports that 27=year-old made the changes after loss by KO in round five against Oleksandr Usyk in July in the fight for undisputed heavyweight title. He had since recruited Sam Jones as an […]
Heavyweight prodigy Moses Itauma (13-0, 11 KOs) needed less then two minutes to stop former world title challenger Dillian Whyte (31-4, 21 KOs) on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 20-year-old stopped Whyte (37) with a flurry of punches after 1:59 minutes in round one and retained the WBA International and WBO Inter-Continental heavyweight titles. […]
Sebatian Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs) will defend his WBC World super-welterweight title against former unified welterweight champion Keith Thurman (31-1, 23 KOs) on October 25 in Las Vegas, a source told “The Ring”. Thurman returned in ring in March after spending three years outside of ring. He stopped Brock Jarvis in round three. Fundora defended […]
Undisputed light-heavyweight champion Dmitrii Bivol (24-1, 12 KOs) will miss remainder of 2025 after undergoing successful back surgery. He is expected to recover in six to eight weeks. Bivol told “The Ring Magazine” that he underwent surgery following doctor’s advice. “Following my doctor’s advice, I had to undergo surgery for an older back injury which […]
A second fighter of August 2 card in Tokyo has died. Hiromasa Urakawa, who was hospitalized with a brain injury after his eight-round knockout loss to Yoji Saito, has succumbed to his injuries. He was 28. Urakawa died om Saturday after sustaining brain injuries in his knockout loss. Urakawa underwent a craniotomy to also treat […]
Japan’s Shigetoshi Kotari (8-2-2, 5 KOs) died on Friday at age of 28, just six days after suffering brain injuries on 12-round split draw against Yamato Hata in Toyo. Following the bout at Korakuen Hall, Kotari fell unconscious and was taken to hospital with brain bleed. Kotari had emergency surgery at hospital. In a social […]
