Category: Boxing

IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0-1, 26 KOs) outpointed Isaac Chilemba (24-4-2, 10 KOs) on Monday night at the DIVS Palace of Sports in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The Russian warmed up for his November 19 clash with former super m…

WBA and IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs) will defend his titles against Britain’s Kell Brook (36-0, 25 KOs) on September 10 at the O2 Arena in London. The match-up comes as a shock since KO king Golovkin was in negotiations to…

WBO super middleweight champion Gilberto Ramirez (34-0, 26 KOs) has pulled out of his title defence against Dominik Britsch (32-2-1, 11 KOs) on the Terence Crawford-Viktor Postol undercard due to a hand injury. Mexican Ramirez, who won the WBO belt wi…

Terry Flanagan (30-0, 12 KOs) will now defend his WBO lightweight title against Mzonke Fana (38-9, 16 KOs) on July 16 at the Ice Arena in Cardiff, Wales. The Mancunian fighter had been scheduled to face South African Fana on the undercard of WBA and WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s rematch with Wladimir Klitschko on July 9 at the Manchester Arena. But that fight was postponed because Fury suffered a sprained ankle. So Flanagan will make his third world title defence seven days later in…

Keith Thurman (27-0, 22 KOs) outpointed fellow American Shawn Porter (26-2-1, 16 KOs) to retain his WBA welterweight title on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. In a fight of the year candidate, Thurman used his boxing skills…

IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) knocked out previously unbeaten Dominic Breazeale (17-1, 15 KOs) to retain his title on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London. In his first world title defence, Joshua finished Breazeale with t…

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…

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 unanim…

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 K…

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 …