Category: Boxing

WBA light middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (24-2-2, 14 KOs) easily defeated former world champion Yuri Foreman (34-3, 10 KOs) by a fourth round KO on Friday night at Hialeah Park Racing and Casino in Miami, Florida. The Cuban finished off Foreman …

Dillian Whyte (20-1, 15 KOs) has vacated the British heavyweight title so he can pursue a world title fight by the end of the year. Whyte was ordered to make a defence against Sam Sexton by the British Boxing Board of Control, but he has elected to vacate the belt and seek a world title fight. In a slugfest last month, Whyte outpointed London rival Dereck Chisora in a eliminator for the WBC heavyweight title, currently held by American Deontay Wilder. “Sam Sexton, fighting him doesn’t make…

WBA light welterweight champion Ricky Burns (41-5-1, 14 KOs) will fight IBF titleholder Julius Indongo (21-0, 11 KOs) in a unification clash on April 15 at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland. The Scotsman will be defending his 140-pound title for the …

Pound-for-pound king Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-0, 38 KOs) will defend his WBC super flyweight title against former champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (41-4-1, 38 KOs) on March 18 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Gonzalez, who has won world ti…

IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby (23-1, 8 KOs) will defend his title against former world champion Jonathan Victor Barros (41-4-1, 22 KOs) on January 28 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The Welshman, who has been out of action for 10 months, returns…

Britain’s Anthony Crolla (31-5-3, 13 KOs) will challenge three-weight world champion Jorge Linares (41-3, 27 KOs) for the WBA lightweight title in a rematch on March 25 at the Manchester Arena. The pair met at the same venue in September when the Vene…

British super bantamweight Gavin McDonnell (16-0-2, 4 KOs) will fight Mexico’s Rey Vargas (28-0, 22 KOs) for the vacant WBC title on February 25 at the Ice Arena, in Hull. The two unbeaten fighters will challenge for the 122-pound belt, which became v…

WBA super featherweight champion Jezreel Corrales (21-1-1, 8 KOs) outpointed former champion Takashi Uchiyama (24-2, 20 KOs) by a split decision in a rematch on Saturday night at the Ota-City General Gymasium, in Tokyo, Japan. Corrales scored a second…

Yukinori Oguni (19-1-1, 7 KOs) dethroned IBF super bantamweight champion Jonathan Guzman (22-1, 22 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Saturday at Shimazu Arena in Kyoto, Japan. Oguni was awarded scores of 115-112 on all three cards. Dominican kno…