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  • Anthony Crolla to fight Jorge Linares on September 24

    WBA lightweight champion Anthony Crolla (31-4-3, 13 KOs) will fight former three-weight world champion Jorge Linares (40-3, 27 KOs) on September 24 at the Manchester Arena, England. The Manchester fighter will make the second defence of his belt in fr…

  • Deontay Wilder to defend WBC belt against Chris Arreola on July 16

    Undefeated American Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) will defend his WBC heavyweight title against two-time world title challenger Chris Arreola (36-4-1, 31 KOs) on July 16 from at The Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. Wilder was set to travel to Russ…

  • Dejan Zlaticanin wins WBC lightweight title amd makes history

    Dejan Zlaticanin (22-0, 15 KO) defeated replacement opponent Franklin Mamani (21-2-2, 12 KO) in three rounds to win the vacant WBC lightweight title and become Montenegro’s first ever boxing world champion on Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort…

  • Lomachenko knocks out Martinez to win WBO super featherweight belt

    Vasyl Lomachenko (6-1, 4 KOs) defeated defending champion Rocky Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) by a fifth round KO to win the WBO super featherweight title on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden’s Theater in New York. Lomachenko dominated and out-classed Martinez from the start. The Ukrainian southpaw rocked Martinez in the second with a hard left and continued to land several lefts and rights in the following rounds. The finishing blows came in the fifth when a brutal left uppercut – right…

  • Enzo Maccarinelli retires following first-round KO defeat

    Ukrainian Dmytro Kucher (24-1, 18 KOs) stopped former world champion Enzo Maccarinelli (41-8, 33 KOs) in the first round to win the vacant European cruiserweight title on Friday night at the York Hall in London. Welshman Maccarinelli started by landin…

  • Guillermo Rigondeaux to defend world title against Jazza Dickens on July 16

    WBA super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) will fight British contender James “Jazza” Dickens (22-1, 7 KOs) on July 16 at the Cardiff Ice Arena in Cardiff, Wales. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Rigondeaux, who recently had his…

  • Vargas-Salido war ends in majority draw

    WBC super featherweight champion Francisco Vargas (23-0-2, 17 KOs) retained his belt with a majority draw against former two-weight world champion Orlando Salido (43-13-4, 30 KOs) at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. The judges scores were 14-…

  • Smith scores second round KO to retain WBO belt

    WBO light middleweight champion Liam Smith (23-0-1, 13 KOs) halted overmatched challenger Predrag Radosevic (30-2, 11 KOs) in the second round on Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Smith landed hard shots to head and body in the opener and…

  • Barthelemy bests Bey to retain IBF belt

    IBF lightweight champion Rances Barthelemy (25-0, 13 KOs) outpointed former champion Mickey Bey (22-2-1, 10 KOs) on Friday night in the Hard Rock Live Arena at the Seminole Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. The unbeaten Cuban dominated most of …

  • Boxing legend Muhammad Ali dies aged 74

    Muhammad Ali has died at the age of 74, a family spokesman has confirmed. The three-time world heavyweight champion had suffered from Parkinson’s disease since 1984 – three years after he retired from the sport. Ali had been hospitalized in the Phoeni…