IBF World cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia (29-0, 23 KOs) will face Brandon Glanton (21-3, 18 KOs) for inaugural Zuffa Boxing Cruiserweight World Championship. Fight will be held on March 8 at Meta Apex in Las Vegas. Opetaia signed with Zuffa Boxing last month. He is the first major signing for the new boxing promotion helmed […]
Brandon Figueroa (27-2-1, 20 KOs) is the new WBA World featherweight champion. Figueroa on Saturday night in Liverpool dethroned Nick Ball (23-1-1). Figueroa stopped Ball in round twelve. He dropped the local favorite twice in round twelve. Figueroa was ahead on points on scorecards of two judges (106:103) and Ball was ahead on scorecard of […]
World Boxing Council announced that it has stripped Shakur Stevenson (25-0, 11 KOs) of his lightweight title, just days after he dominated against Teofimo Lopez and won the WBO World superlight title. In announcement WBC declared the lightweight title as “vacant”, citing the rules and regulations for title holders and that Stevenson is WBO champion […]
Mehmet Unal (15-0, 13 KOs) continued his impressive run, stopping unbeaten Altin Zogaj (17-1) in round nine on Thursday night in Montreal. It was main event of the show promoted by Eye of the Tiger. Fight was for WBA Continental Americas and WBC Continental Americas light-heavyweight titles. 33-year-old Unal dominated the fight and in round […]
Derek Chisora (36-13, 23 KO) will face Deontay Wilder (44-4-1, 43 KOs) on April 4 in O2 Arena, London. Winner of the fight could get mandatory shot at IBF World heavyweight title which is held by Oleksandr Usyk (24-0, 15 KOs), promoter Frank Warren told Sky Sports. “It’s the last chance saloon for one of […]
Xander Zayas (23-0, 13 KO) unified WBA World and WBO World super-welterweight titles. Zayas on Saturday night in San Juan, Puerto Rico defeated Abass Baraou (17-2) of Germany in a unification fight via split decision. Two judges scored fight 116:112 for Zayas and one scored 116:112 for Baraou. Baraou in the fight entered as WBO […]
Shakur Stevenson (25-0, 11 KOs) dominated and dethroned Teofimo Lopez (22-2, 13 KOs) and became four-division world champion. Stevenson on Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, New York produced a dominant performance and won via unanimous decision in the fight for WBO World super-lightweight title, which Lopez held. All three judges scored the fight 119:109 […]
Danish prodigy Jacob Bank (18-0, 10 KOs) is very near a world title fight. Bank on Saturday night in Kolding, Denmark stopped former world champion William Scull (23-2, 9 KOs) in round twelve and defended his WBO Global super-middleweight title. 24-year-old dominated the fight and dropped Scull twice in round six and was clearly leading […]
Josh Kelly (18-1-1, 9 KOs) is the new IBF World super-welterweight champion. Kelly on Saturday night in Newcastle dethroned Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-1), defeating him via majority decision. Two judges saw Kelly as winner (115:111, 114:113) and one scored the fight as draw (113:113). Kelly dropped Murtazaliev in round four, but the Russian then dropped Kelly […]
Per–Ake Persson Newly crowned WBO European heavyweight champion Viktor Faust (17-1) will defend the title against 46-year old Polish veteran Mariusz Wach (39-12) on March 25 in Budapest (Hungary). Faust won the title January 17 in Flensburg, Germany by knockout in 18 seconds over Macedonian Todorche Cvetkov (14-4) in a joke of a fight. Wach […]
