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 front of his home fans against Venezuelan Linares, who was stripped of the WBC lightweight title earlier this year due to injury.
Crolla, 29, is coming off a knockout victory over Ismael Barroso in May, having dethroned Darleys Perez with another…
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 Russia and defend his title against Alexander Povetkin on May 21, but the challenger failed a drug test and the fight was called off.
Now he will instead face countryman Arreola, who receives his third world title shot following defeats to Bermane…
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 in Verona, New York.
Southpaw Zlaticanin rocked Mamani, who took the fight on eleven days notice, with hard shots in the first round and although the Bolivian fighter started to fire back in the second, undefeated ‘Dynamite’ continued to hurt…
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 landing jabs but was soon rocked by a left hook.
Kucher followed up with a series of hard shots which sent Maccarinelli to the canvas.
The 35-year-old struggled to make it to his feet and Italian referee Giuseppe Quartarone halted the fight at 2:48 of…
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 WBA belt returned to him after initially being stripped, had been due to fight Dickens in a non-title bout in March in England but he failed to secure a visa.
Now Dickens challenges the Cuban star with the world title on the line.
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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 14-114, 114-114 and 115-113 for Vargas.
The bout will be a fight of the year candidate as the two Mexicans exchanged punches from the start. Salido rocked Vargas with a hard right hand in the third round but the champion fired back with a…
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 he backed his opponent into the corner in the second round before dropping Radosevic with a left hook to the body. The fight was stopped at 1:34 of the round as the Montenegrin failed to beat the count.
It was the Liverpool fighter’s eighth…
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 the rounds with his superior workrate and two of the judges awarded him the fight by scores of 117-110, 116-111, while the third somehow scored it 117-110 for Bey.
Barthelemy utilized his height and reach advantage to land his jab and combinations…
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 Phoenix area this week with a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson’s disease. He died on Friday.
A statement from spokesman Bob Gunnell said: “Muhammad Ali’s funeral will take place in his hometown of Louisville,…