World Boxing Organization has announced the new president after the retirement of longtime leader Francisco “Paco” Valcarcel. Gustavo Olivieri will replace Valcarcel, who led WBO for decades, “BoxingScene” Reports. The announcement was made on Thursday during Annual WBO Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Olivieri, who previously served as in-house counsel for the WBO, stepped […]
Murodjon Akhmadaliev (12-1) will face Mexico’s Ricardo Espinoza Franco (30-4) on December 14 in Monte Carlo. Fight will be for interim WBA World title in super-bantamweight. Former bantamweight world champion Akhmadaliev will try to become two-division champion. On the same event Brazil’s Beatrice Ferreira (5-0) will make first title defense. IBF lightweight champion will fight […]
Tom Dzemski (21-2) will fight Nick Hanning on Saturday (November 2) in Chemnitz for vacant WBO European light-heavyweight title. The fight will headline the event promoted by SES Boxing. In co-main event Roman Frees (21-1) will face Stefan Nikolic (9-1) for WBC International cruiserweight title. Armend Xhoxhaj (18-4) will fight Miloslav Savic (9-7-1) in a […]
Jack Catterall (30-1) made a significant step towards a world title fight, after defeating on Saturday night in Manchester former world champion Regis Prograis (29-3) via unanimous decision. Fight was for WBO International in super-lightweight. Prograis dropped Catterall once in round five. But British star was dominant and also dropped Prograis twice in round nine, […]
Dina Thorslund (23-0, 9 KOs) successfully defended her WBC and WBO world bantamweight titles. Thorslund defeated on Friday night in Holstebro, Denmark, the Japanese challenger Terumi Nuki (15-6) via unanimous decision. All three judges scored the fight 99:91 in favor of Thorslund. According to “Boxrec”, Thorslund at the moment is number 1 in P4P ranking. […]
Jack Catterall (29-1) is expecting to have a world title fight next in case he defeats former world champion Regis Prograis (29-2) on Saturday night in Manchester. Catterall sees Prograis fight as stepping stone to a world title fight at super-lightweight division. Catterall is number 2 in WBC and WBO, where Alberto Puello and Tefimo […]
Dina Thorslund (22-0) will defend her WBC and WBO world bantamweight titles on Friday (October 25) in Holstebro. She will be up against Japan’s Terumi Nuki (15-5). For Thorslund will be third fight this year. She beat Mary Romero of Spain via TKO on February 24 and defeated Turkiye’s Seren Cetin via unanimous decision on […]
Japanese superstar Naoya Inoue (28-0, 25 KOs) will defend his undisputed super-bantamweight title against Australia’s Sam Goodman on December 24 in Tokyo. Undefeated Inoue, 31 is a four-weight world champion and one of boxing’s pound-for-pound stars. The bout at “Ariake Arena” has been billed as “Nightmare on Christmas Eve”. On the line will be the […]
Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) expects to knock out Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) in their rematch on December 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In their first encounter, which was held on May 18 and was for undisputed heavyweight title, Usyk defeated Fury via split decision (114:113, 113:114 and 115:112). In […]
International Boxing Federation have ordered the undisputed light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (21-0, 20 KOs) to face the mandatory challenger Michael Eifert (13-1) of Germany. IBF told the teams to begin negotiations for the fight. The mandatory fight could delay the rematch between Dmitry Bivol and Beterbiev. Eifert won the eliminator fight against former world champion […]
