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Carl Frampton (21-0, 14 KOs) outpointed Alejandro Gonzalez Jr (25-2-2, 15 KOs) to retain his IBF super-bantamweight title on Saturday afternoon at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas.
The Belfast fighter was put down twice in the opening round but battled back to win a unanimous decision by scores of 115-109, 116-108, 116-108.
Making his American debut and defending his belt for the second time, Frampton was sent to the canvas for the first time in his professional career after taking a…

Former four-time  world champion Carl Froch (33-2, 24 KOs) has announced his retirement from professional boxing.
Froch, 38, won the WBC, WBA and IBF super-middleweight titles and hangs up his gloves after a career filled with significant victories against the likes of Jean Pascal, Jermain Taylor, Andre Dirrell, Arthur Abraham, Lucian Bute, Mikkel Kessler and George Groves.
In his final fight, the Nottingham man knocked out Groves in front of 80,000 at Wembley Stadium in May 2014.
“I’m…

Timothy Bradley (32-1-1, 12 KOs) defeated previously unbeaten Jessie Vargas (26-1, 9 KOs) by a unanimous decision on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
But there was drama and confusion in the final moments of the fight before Bradley won by scores of 117-111, 116-112 and 115-112.
American Bradley took the fight to his countryman Vargas from the first round. Vargas did land some punches of his own and rocked the former two-division world champion in the fifth but…

British cruiserweight contender Tony Bellew (24-2-1, 15 KOs) stopped late sub Ivica Bacurin (22-8-1, 12 KOs) in the 10th round on Friday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.
Bellew stayed on course for a third world title shot by flooring his Croatian opponent three times on the way to the stoppage victory. The Liverpudlian dropped Bacurin in rounds two, five and nine and forced the visitor to a halt in the 10th, jolting Bacarin’s head back with an uppercut to force the referee’s…

Danny Garcia (30-0, 17 KOs) has vacated his WBC light welterweight title.
Garcia, 27, who has not defended his WBA and WBC 140lb titles since March 2014 after two consecutive bouts fought at a catchweight, decided to relinquish his world title rather than face mandatory challenger Viktor Postol next and move up in weight to welterweight. He is now planning to fight former world champion Paulie Malignaggi on August 1 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Lucas Matthysse and Postol will…

British super bantamweight contender Kid Galahad (18-0, 9 KOs) has been handed a two-year ban for a failed UK Anti-Doping test, but he is appealing against it.
Galahad, 25, claims that his brother Mageed, currently in prison for other offences, spiked a protein shake after an argument, which led to a failed urine sample for the banned steroid Stanolozol, given in September last year.
His brother has since signed a sworn affidavit to the UK Anti-Doping Panel admitting he did spike the former…

Unbeaten British heavyweight Anthony Joshua (12-0, 12 KOs) scored his 12th straight knockout in stopping Brazilian Raphael Zumbano Love (36-11-1, 29 KOs) in the second round on Saturday night at Barclaycard Arena in Birmingham, England.
The 2012 Olympic super heavyweight gold medalist was fully in control of the bout from the start with a jab and in the second round he ended it with a crushing right hand that sent the visitor sprawling to the canvas.
Love struggled to get up and was counted out…

IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (27-0-1, 24 KOs) will be defending his titles against mandatory challenger Nadjib Mohammedi (37-3, 23 KOs) on July 18 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kovalev, 32,  who has looked unstoppable in his last two fights, a one-sided points win over Bernard Hopkins and then stopping Jean Pascal, was hoping to face WBC 175 pound champion Adonis Stevenson next. But due to them fighting on rival television networks, Stevenson on…

Jermain Taylor (33-4-1, 20 KOs) has been stripped of his IBF middleweight title.
Taylor, 36, is facing several legal problems and is to undergo a mental evaluation that could keep him out of the ring for some time following two arrests, the alleged shooting of his cousin in August, and again last month in which he allegedly discharged a gun and threatened to shoot a family during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas.
“Any boxer who is ill, injured, under…

IBF super-bantamweight champion Carl Frampton (19-0, 13 KOs) will defend his world title against Chris Avalos (25-2, 19 KOs) on February 28 at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast.
The 27-year-old is back on home territory for the first defence of the belt he won when he beat Kiko Martinez by unanimous decision in the city’s Titanic Quarter in September.
Avalos, 25, has won six fights in a row and was in a mandatory position to challenge either Frampton for his belt or unified champion Guillermo…