Jai Opetaia (29-0, 23 KOs) has defended his IBF World cruiserweight title in style. Opetaia on Saturday night in Queensland, Australia KO’d Huseyin Cinkara in round eight with a strong left. Opetaia was leading clearly on points until round eight, all judges had scored 69:64 in his favor. For Opetaia it was third title defense […]
Per-Ake Persson Melissa Mortensen (8-0) won the vacant EBU Silver title in style as she stopped Pole Dorota Norek (9-6) at the end of the fourth round in the headliner of Primetime Promotions show at the Sporticum. The fight was off to a messy start with more wrestling and holding than boxing but in the […]
The son of boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, Emmanuel Pacquiao Jr. made a professional boxing debut in USA last weekend, but result was not the one he wished. 24-year-old fought to a draw with fellow debut Brendan Lally. Two judges saw the fight as even 38:38 and one gave Pacquiao Jr. the win 39:37. Pacquiao Jr. […]
Per–Ake Persson French super-welter Bakary Samake (19-0) and US-based Albanian Ermal Hadribeaj (22-0-1) have by the WBC been ordered to meet in an eliminator where the winner will meet interim champ Vergil Ortiz or Sebastian Fundora, who is the WBC title holder. Hadribeaj has been campaigning in Europe lately fighting on Universum / Arena Box […]
Terence Crawford (42-0) has been stripped off his WBC super-middleweight title, after World Boxing Council said that the undisputed champion didn’t pay fee, which is about 300,000 dollars. WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced the ruling at the annual convention in Bangkok. WBC then ordered Britain’s Hamzah Sheeraz (22-0-1, 18 KO’s) to fight Christian Mbilli (29-0-1, […]
Per-Ake Persson Poland’s Nikodem Jeżewski (26-2-1) meets Croatian Marko Calic (16-2) December 13 in Sopot (Poland) with the vacant WBC International Bridgerweight title at stake. Both men have in the past campaigned as cruiserweights with mixed success. Jezewski was stopped by Lawrence Okolie in London in 2020 and suffered an upset loss to German Artur […]
Unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs) wants to fight next the former WBC World champion Deontay Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs). Usyk described Wilder as his “first option”. Ukrainian made history stopping Daniel Dubois in Wembley in July, becoming two-time undisputed champion in heavyweight division. He was undisputed also in cruiserweight division. Usyk […]
Per–Ake Persson German former EBU light-heavy champ Conny Velensek has passed away at the age of 82. Velensek won the EBU title in 1971 with a split decision over Piero Del Papa and retained it later the same year with a draw against Chris Finnegan in Berlin but lost the rematch in Nottingham in 1972. […]
Teofimo Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) is set to face Shakur Stevenson (24-0, 11 KO) on January 31. Fight will be for WBO World super-lightweight title, which Lopez holds. Fight will be in New York and will be livestreamed in DAZN. The announcement was made by Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority […]
Unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KO) has been pulled from Saturday scheduled unification fight against WBA champion Erislandy Lara, after he tested positive for a banned substance. The WBO and IBF World champion tested positive for banned substance meldonium in test taken on November 15 by VADA. Alimkhanuly proclaimed his innocence. “I have […]
