Category: Boxing

Former boxer Michael Watson and his carer, Lennard Ballack were hospitalised on Thursday night after the former world title challenger was dragged out of a car. Watson, 51, was in the passenger seat, with Mr Ballack driving through Chingford in Essex when the vehicle was struck from behind. The attackers sprayed a suspected noxious substance into Mr Ballack’s eyes, punched him, and pulled Watson out of the car and dragged him along the street, in what is believed to have been an attempt to…

Jermall Charlo (25-0, 19 KOs) has vacated his IBF light middleweight title and will move up in weight. The American won the 154lbs belt with a third round stoppage win over Cornelius Bundrage in September 2015 and has since made three title defences. …

IBF lightweight champion Robert Easter Jr (19-0, 14 KOs) easily outpointed challenger Luis Cruz (22-5-1, 16 KOs) on Friday night at the Huntington Center, Toledo, Ohio. The American retained his title by a unanimous decision with scores of 119-106, 118…

WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 5 KOs) will face WBA champion Jason Sosa (20-1-4, 15 KOs) in a unification fight on April 8 at the MGM National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum initially tried to make …

Chris Eubank Jr (24-1, 19 KOs) defeated Australian Renold Quinlan (11-2, 7 KOs) by a 10th round TKO on Saturday night at the Olympia, in London. Eubank captured the IBO super middleweight title from Quinlan, and scored his sixth straight stoppage win …

WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (22-0, 18 KOs) will fight mandatory challenger Hughie Fury (20-0, 10 KOs) on April 1 in Auckland, New Zealand. WBO president Francisco Valcarcel announced on Friday that Parker’s promoters Duco Events have won th…

Miguel Cotto’s light middleweight bout with American James Kirkland on February 25 has been called off. Kirkland, who hasn’t fought since he was knocked out in the third round by Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in May 2015, has pulled out of the fight after suffering a fractured nose in training. It is unknown whether the bout will be rescheduled. Cotto was last in action in November 2015 when he lost the WBC middleweight title by a points decision to Canelo. The Puerto Rican may now look for a new…

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (37-0, 36 KOs) will fight replacement opponent Gerald Washington (18-0-1, 12 KOs) on February 25 at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Washington, a U.S Navy veteran and former college American football pl…