Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 KOs) will fight WBO light middleweight champion Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) on September 17 in the USA at a venue to be determined.
Canelo, 25, won the WBC middleweight title when he outpointed Miguel Cotto last November, although he has never fought above 155 pounds and will only be dropping a pound to challenge unbeaten Briton Smith, who will be making his third title defence but steps up in the level of opposition.
“I am very pleased to announce my next…
Tyson Fury postpones rematch with Wladimir Klitschko
WBA and WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has pulled out of his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko next month, due to a ankle injury.
The unbeaten British heavyweight dethroned Klitschko, ending the Ukrainian’s 11-year unbeaten streak, winning a unanimous decision in Germany last November.
And Fury was scheduled to defend his heavyweight belts against Klitschko on July 9 at the Manchester arena, but has now announced that the fight is being called off.
“Hey guys, I got a little bit of bad news…
Andre Ward to battle Alexander Brand, before Sergey Kovalev clash
Former super middleweight world champion Andre Ward (29-0, 15 KOs) will fight Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 KOs) on August 6 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.
Ward has already signed to challenge IBF, WBA, and WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev on November 19. However, both have fights to come through. Russia’s Kovalev is scheduled to defend his belts against Isaac Chilemba on July 11.
The unbeaten American fights for the second time at 175 pounds when he takes on Colombian…
Adonis Stevenson to make title defence against Thomas Williams Jr
WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (27-1, 22 KOs) will defend his title against American contender Thomas Williams Jr (20-1, 14 KOs) on July 29 at the Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada.
Stevenson, a native of Haiti, now residing in Quebec, will be making his seventh world title defence. He won the belt in 2013 when he knocked out Chad Dawson in the first round.
The 38-year-old Stevenson last fought in September, beating Tommy Karpency by a third round TKO in a huge…
Anthony Crolla to fight Jorge Linares on September 24
WBA lightweight champion Anthony Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) will fight former three-weight world champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) on September 24 at the Manchester Arena, England.
The Manchester fighter will make the second defence of his belt in front of his home fans against Venezuelan Linares, who was stripped of the WBC lightweight title earlier this year due to injury.
Crolla, 29, is coming off a knockout victory over Ismael Barroso in May, having dethroned Darleys Perez with another…
Deontay Wilder to defend WBC belt against Chris Arreola on July 16
Undefeated American Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) will defend his WBC heavyweight title against two-time world title challenger Chris Arreola (36-4-1, 31 KOs) on July 16 from at The Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama.
Wilder was set to travel to Russia and defend his title against Alexander Povetkin on May 21, but the challenger failed a drug test and the fight was called off.
Now he will instead face countryman Arreola, who receives his third world title shot following defeats to Bermane…
Dejan Zlaticanin wins WBC lightweight title amd makes history
Dejan Zlaticanin (22-0, 15 KO) defeated replacement opponent Franklin Mamani (21-2-2, 12 KO) in three rounds to win the vacant WBC lightweight title and become Montenegro’s first ever boxing world champion on Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, New York.
Southpaw Zlaticanin rocked Mamani, who took the fight on eleven days notice, with hard shots in the first round and although the Bolivian fighter started to fire back in the second, undefeated ‘Dynamite’ continued to hurt…
Lomachenko knocks out Martinez to win WBO super featherweight belt
Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) defeated defending champion Rocky Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) by a fifth round KO to win the WBO super featherweight title on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in New York.
Lomachenko dominated and out-classed Martinez from the start.
The Ukrainian southpaw rocked Martinez in the second with a hard left and continued to land several lefts and rights in the following rounds.
The finishing blows came in the fifth when a brutal left uppercut – right…
Enzo Maccarinelli retires following first-round KO defeat
Ukrainian Dmytro Kucher (24-1, 18 KOs) stopped former world champion Enzo Maccarinelli (41-8, 33 KOs) in the first round to win the vacant European cruiserweight title on Friday night at the York Hall in London.
Welshman Maccarinelli started by landing jabs but was soon rocked by a left hook.
Kucher followed up with a series of hard shots which sent Maccarinelli to the canvas.
The 35-year-old struggled to make it to his feet and Italian referee Giuseppe Quartarone halted the fight at 2:48 of…
Guillermo Rigondeaux to defend world title against Jazza Dickens on July 16
WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) will fight British contender James “Jazza” Dickens (22-1, 7 KOs) on July 16 at the Cardiff Ice Arena in Cardiff, Wales.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Rigondeaux, who recently had his WBA belt returned to him after initially being stripped, had been due to fight Dickens in a non-title bout in March in England but he failed to secure a visa.
Now Dickens challenges the Cuban star with the world title on the line.
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