Category: Boxing

Luis Concepcion has failed to make weight for his WBA super-flyweight title defence against Britain’s Kal Yafai and has been stripped of the belt. The Panamanian was 2.7 pounds over the 115-pound limit at Friday’s weigh-in. Yafai, who came in at 117.7 …

Britain’s Lee Haskins has withdrawn from his IBF bantamweight title defence against Shohei Omori, set for 31 December in Kyoto, Japan, after injuring his leg in training. Medical reports show he will be fit to resume training in early January. Haskins…

Britain’s Billy Joe Saunders (24-0, 12 KOs) retained his WBO middleweight title with a points win over Artur Akavov (16-2, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Paisley Lagoon Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. In his first title defence, Saunders won a unanimous…

Murat Gassiev (24-0, 17 KOs) outpointed defending champion Denis Lebedev (29-3, 22 KOs) to win the IBF cruiserweight title on Saturday night at the MegaSport Arena in Moscow, Russia. The Russian fighter won a 12-round split decision over countryman Leb…

WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 4 KOs) retained his title with a TKO victory over previously unbeaten Nicholas Walters (26-1-1, 21 KOs) on Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Lomachenko, who was making the first de…

WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (32-0, 13 KOs) scored a eighth round stoppage win over Puerto Rican challenger Orlando Cruz (25-5-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. The Manchester fighter dominated the acti…

WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (32-0, 13 KOs) scored a eighth round stoppage win over Puerto Rican challenger Orlando Cruz (25-5-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at the Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. The Manchester fighter dominated the acti…

Tony Bellew  (28-2-1, 18 KOs) and David Haye (28-2, 26 KOs) will fight in an all-British heavyweight clash on March 4 at the O2 Arena in London. Following an ongoing war of words, Bellew jumped out of the ring and confronted Haye after defending …

British middleweight Billy Joe Saunders’ world title defence against Artur Akavov has been postponed by a week to December 3. Saunders, who dethroned Ireland’s Andy Lee last December, had been due to make the first defence of his WBO middleweight title…

Australian heavyweight Lucas Browne (24-0, 21 KOs) has failed a drugs test for the second time in eight months. The 37-year-old Browne, who was due to fight American Shannon Briggs for the vacant WBA heavyweight title before the end of the year, teste…