Julio Cesar La Cruz (4-0, 4 KOs), double Olympic champion and five times World champion in amateur boxing, stopped Montenegro’s Dilan Prasovic (18-6, 15 KOs) in round three and earned the right to fight for WBA World bridgerweight title. Agon Sport organized an historic professional boxing event in Cubam where main fight was the one […]
Jaron Ennis (34-0, 30 KOs) stopped Eimantas Stanionis (15-1, 9 KOs) on Saturday night in Atlantic City, USA and unified IBF and WBA World welterweight titles. Ennis dropped Stanionis once in round six. The corner of Stanionis decided to stop the fight after six rounds. “I think I did [make a statement],” said the 27-year-old […]
Noel Mikaelian (27-2) will face Badou Jack (28-3-3, 17 KOs) for WBC World cruiserweight title on May 3 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, sources told “The Ring”. Mikaelian accepted the fight with three weeks’ notice, after Ryan Rozicki (20-1-1, 19 KOs) got injured. Fight between Jack and Mikaelian will be co-main event on the card. Main […]
Eimantas Stanionis (15-0, 9 KOs) has great respect for Jaron Ennis (33-0, 29 KOs). Stanionis will fight Ennis for WBA and IBF World welterweight titles, on Saturday night in Atlantic City, USA. Ennis holds IBF title and Stanionis is WBA champion. “Really good – everything they say, he’s really good,” the 30-year-old told BoxingScene. “He […]
Dmitrii Bivol (24-1, 12 KOs) has decided to relinquish the WBC World light-heavyweight title belt. World Boxing Council confirmed that undisputed world champion decided to relinquish the belt. WBC names David Benavidez (30-0, 24 KOs) as mandatory challenger for Bivol. Bivol is expected to face Artur Beterbiev for the third time. “Mr. Bivol has been […]
Fabio Wardley (18-0-1, 17 KOs) will face Jarrell Miller (26-1-2, 22 KOs) on June 7 in Ipswich, UK for WBA “Interim” World heavyweight title. The press conference, held this week, descended in chaos. Miller wearing a Norwich shirt taunted Wardley, who is lifelong supporter of Ipswich Town. The news conference them became more heated shortly […]
Former WBO World super-welterweight champion Tim Tszyu (25-2, 18 KOs) stopped Joseph Spencer (19-2, 11 KOs) on Sunday in Newcastle, Australia and captured WBO Inter-Continental super-welterweight title. Tszyu stopped Spencer in round four. For him was a return to winning ways after two consecutive losses. He lost to Sebastian Fundora via split decision on March […]
Filip Hrgovic (18-1, 14 KOs) defeated Joe Joyce (16-4, 15 KOs) on Saturday night in Manchester via unanimous decision and captured the WBO International heavyweight title belt. Hrgovic stepped as late replacement for Dillian Whyte, who had to cancel because of an injury, and he got the victory. All three judges saw him as winner […]
Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs) defended his IBF and WBO World middleweight titles, defeating France’s Anauel Ngamissengue (14-1, 9 KOs) via stoppage in round five. For Alimkhanuly was first time in more then 7 years that he fought in his home country. Alimkhanuly started fast and dropped Ngamissengue once in round one. He then stopped […]
Labinot Xhoxhaj (20-0-1, 16 KOs) will defend his EBU heavyweight title against Mourad Aliev (13-0, 10 KOs). Promoter of Aliev, Ahmet Öner, said that the deal have been reached between teams. Öner said for “BOXEN1” that there are two possible dates, on May 23 in Zagreb or June 7 in Hamburg. “We reached a deal […]
