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 […]
Per-Ake Persson Spanish welter Aaron Alhambra (18-2) won the vacant EBU Silver title on Friday night in Madrid, defeating Bulgarian Yosif Panov (27:4) via unanimous decision. Scores were 116:111, 116:112 and 115:112. Panov was floored in the tenth but got up and gave Alhambra a tough fight all the way.
Per-Ake Persson Former Italian lightweight and super-lightweight champion Alessandro Scapecchi has passed away at the age of 66 after a long battle with leukemia. Scapecchi challenged for the European title three times but came up short every time but the losses came to the likes of future world champs Patrizio Oliva, Terry Marsh and Tex […]
Per-Ake Persson Spanish super-lightweight Sandor Martin (42-4) is back in action December 20 in Bilbao on OPI since 82 and BCN Boxing Nights promotion with a non-title fight against Yanis Kurylkenko (14-1). Martin lost a split decision March 1 in New York to Alberto Puello with the WBC title at stake in what was his […]
Per-Ake Persson WBO I-C featherweight champion Francesco Grandelli (20-4-2) defends the title against Jose Antonio Sanchez Romero (17-2-1), who is from Spain but has been living in Finland for a few years now, on December 20 in Turin (Italy). Sanchez Romero´s only other fight this year was a close loss on points to Frenchman Christ […]
Per-Ake Persson Danish heavyweight Kem Ljungquist (21-1) won the vacant EBU Silver title when he outclassed Swiss bulked up cruiserweight Benoit Huber (10-6) and stopped him at 1.38 minutes in round eleven on November 14 in Copenhagen. Huber was hurt by a right-left combination and was then floored by a southpaw left and Huber went […]
Per-Ake Persson There were two purse bids scheduled today for EBU Silver titles at the headquarters in Rome (Italy).For the cruiser title, held by Frenchman Seydi Coupe (12-0) and his mandatory challenger, Dane Ditlef Rossing (19-1) there were no bids so the EBU will give the parties involved another chance and have scheduled November 26 […]
Per-Ake Persson German Bernd Boente spent 18 years as manager and CEO for the Klitschko Management Group and has since managed heavyweight prospects Peter Kadiru (20-1) and Viktor Jurk (11-0). Boente was the man behind most of the big fights with Klitschko brothers in Germany and elsewhere and did a great job with them. The […]
Two-times undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (24-0) has decided on Monday to vacate his WBO World title, and Britain’s Fabio Wardley (20-0-1) will be elevated to full world champion. WBO announced on Monday that Usyk is vacating title, and confirmed also that Wardley will become full champion. “The WBO extends its profound respect, admiration, and […]
