IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) will fight previous titleholder Sergey Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) in a rematch on June 17 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Ward will defend the world titles he won from Kovalev by a disputed unanimous decision last November.
Kovalev scored a second round knockdown but the American battled back to win the closely fought contest -114-113 on all three scorecards.
The Russian has exercised his right to an immediate rematch.
“You got…
Mairis Briedis beats Marco Huck to win WBC cruiserweight title
Mairis Briedis (22-0, 18 KOs) outpointed two-time world champion Marco Huck (40-4-1, 27 KOs) to win the vacant WBC cruiserweight title on Saturday night at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany.
Bredis won a unanimous decision by scores of 116-111, 117-110, and 118-109.
The unbeaten Latvian used good movement and landed heavy blows throughout the fight. Serbian-born Huck, who resides in Germany, could not get any offence going. He tried to rally in the later rounds but Briedis remained in…
Terence Crawford to defend against Felix Diaz on May 20
Unbeaten American Terence Crawford (30-0, 21 KOs) will defend his WBC and WBO light welterweight titles against Felix Diaz (19-1, 9 KOs) on May 20 at Madison Square Garden.
Crawford is coming off a one-sided eighth round TKO victory over John Molina Jr in December and will be making his fifth title defence against Diaz, of the Dominican Republic.
After previously winning the WBO lightweight title, Crawford moved up to 140lb in 2015 and won the vacant WBO belt when he defeated Thomas Dulorme by…
Tyron Zeuge wins technical decision over Isaac Ekpo to retain WBA title
WBA super middleweight champion Tyron Zeuge (20-0-1, 11 KOs) retained his title with a fifth round technical decision over Isaac Ekpo (31-3, 24 KOs) at the MBS Arena in Potsdam, Germany.
Unbeaten German Zeuge was getting the better of the Nigerian challenger before he clashed heads with Ekpo in the third round and suffered a large cut over his right eye. The referee allowed the fight to continue and Ekpo had some success as he went on the attack in rounds four and five.
The ring doctor checked…
Linares outpoints Crolla again in one-sided rematch
WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares (42-3, 27 KOs) retained his title with a dominant points win over Anthony Crolla (31-6-3, 13 KOs) in their rematch on Saturday night at the Manchester Arena.
Three-weight world champion Linares dethroned Crolla by unanimous decision in September, but this was even more one-sided.
Linares scored a seventh round knockdown on the way to winning by scores of 118-109 on all three scorecards.
Crolla landed the first meaningful shot of the bout, a left hook to…
Kell Brook to battle Errol Spence at Bramall Lane on May 27
IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) will defend his title against mandatory challenger Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs) on May 27 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
Brook won the IBF belt when outpointing Shawn Porter in August 2014, and makes his fourth world title defence at the home of Sheffield United FC.
The Sheffield fighter demolished Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin and Kevin Bizier in his previous title defences before stepping up two weight divisions to face middleweight king…
Golovkin edges out Jacobs, Sor Rungvisai outguns Gonzalez
WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 34 KO’s) battled to a hard fought points win over WBA ‘regular’ titleholder Danny Jacobs (32-2, 29 KO’s) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Golovkin’s knockout streak ended at 23 straight opponents as he was forced to go 12 rounds for the first time in his career.
Jacobs, a cancer survivor, rose from a fourth-round knockdown and gave the Kazakh superstar all he could handle before Golovkin was awarded a unanimous…
Demetrius Andrade outpoints Jack Culcay to win WBA light middeweight title
Demetrius Andrade (24-0, 16 KOs) outpointed defending champion Jack Culcay (22-2, 11 KOs) by a 12 round split decision to win the WBA light middleweight title on Saturday night at the Friedrich-Ebert Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
The Judges scored the fight 116-112, 116-112 for Andrade and 115-114 for Culcay.
Andrade won more rounds by being the busier fighter but the Germany-based Ecuadorian Culcay had his moments, and the American was hurt in the 12th from a barrage of punches.
With the…
Gervonta Davis-Liam Walsh to fight on May 20 in London
IBF super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis (17-0, 16 KOs) will make the first defence of his title against Britain’s Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs) on May 20 at the Copper Box Arena in London.
Davis dethroned Jose Pedraza by seventh round stoppage in January to become boxing’s youngest current world champion at age 22, and he will now defend the IBF belt in his first professional bout on foreign soil.
“I always wanted to come to the UK and fight,” said Davis. “Many of my fans are based…
Paulie Malignaggi retires from boxing
Two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi has confirmed his retirement from boxing following last Saturday’s defeat to British contender Sam Eggington at London’s O2.
Malignaggi, who has won world titles at welterweight and light welterweight, made the announcement after suffering his eighth professional defeat as Egginton stopped him in the eighth round on the undercard of Tony Bellew vs David Haye.
Malignaggi will continue his career as a boxing commentator for Showtime, Fox Sports…