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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 bu…

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 victori…

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…

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 …

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…

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 Olympi…

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 uns…

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…