Category: Boxing

Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez announced his retirement from boxing on Friday.
“Today is a special and sad day for me because I’m announcing my retirement,” Márquez told ESPN Deportes TV show Golpe a Golpe.
“The injuries pushed me to make this decision. It hurts, but I believe the right moment to put an end to my career has arrived.
“I would have loved to do a final fight to say goodbye inside the ring, but I have to listen to my body, and it was telling me that the right moment to stop…

Wladimir Klitschko has announced his retirement from boxing on Thursday, ending an histonric 21-year professional career.
Two-time heavyweight champion Klitschko, who competed in more world heavyweight title bouts than anyone, lost his final bout to IBF and WBA champion Anthony Joshua by 11th round TKO, in what was an epic battle against the undefeated Englishman in front of a crowd of 90,000 at a sold-out Wembley Stadium in London.
It was Klitschko’s second consecutive defeat after losing his…

IBF bantamweight champion Ryan Burnett will fight WBA titleholder Zhanat Zhakiyanov on October 21 at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 Burnett claimed the IBF belt in June with a one-sided points win over Lee Haskins, which was incorrectly scored as a split decision after one judge mixed up the two fighters before the verdict was later corrected to unanimous. Now the Belfast man will battle Kazakh boxer Zhakiyanov in a bantamweight world title unification clash.
“I’m very, very…

Three-weight world champion Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) scored a 12 round unanimous decision victory over former four-weight world champion Adrien Broner (33-3, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Garcia won by scores of 117-111 and 116-112 twice.
The American got the better of countryman Broner with jabs, power punches and body shots throughout the bout.
“I think I controlled the fight in the early rounds and I kept the activity up,” said Garcia. “Broner is…

Three-weight world champion Jorge Linares (42-3, 27 KOs) will defend his WBA lightweight title against British challenger Luke Campbell (17-1, 14 KOs) on September 23 at the Forum in Los Angeles, USA.
Linares, 31, will also put his WBC Diamond and Ring Magazine belts on the line when he meets 2012 Olympic gold medallist Campbell, 29, who has racked up five victories since a points defeat to Yvan Mendy in 2015, stopping all of his last three opponents.
“It’s an honour to be fighting Jorge…

WBA super middleweight champion George Groves (26-3, 19 KOs) will meet unbeaten contender Jamie Cox (23-0, 13 KOs)  on October 14 at Wembley Arena, for their quarter-final fight in the World Boxing Super Series.
When the competitors in the eight-man 168lbs tournament attended the draft on July 8 in Monte Carlo, the top four seeds picked their opponents from the unseeded boxers.Top seeded Groves opted to fight fellow Brit Cox.
Groves will also defend his WBA belt, which he claimed with a…

Callum Smith (22-0, 17 KOs)  will fight Erik Skoglund (26-0, 12 KOs) on September 16 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England, in the opening bout of the World Boxing Super Series super middleweight tournament.
In both the super middleweight and cruiserweight eight man elimination tournaments, the winner of each could earn around $10 million (£8 million) for the final and will receive the Muhammad Ali trophy.
The top four seeds selected their opponents at the tournament draft on July 8 in…

WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (33-0, 13 KOs) has pulled out of his title defence against mandatory challenger Felix Verdejo (23-0, 15 KOs) on September 16 at the Copper Box Arena in London, after suffering a leg injury in training.
Flanagan’s promoter Frank Warren informed Top Rank on Monday that the fight will need to be pushed back due to the injury.
A new date for Flanagan-Verdejo has not yet been discussed by Warren and Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who promotes Verdejo.
“They’re…

WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) scored a 12 round unanimous decision over former world champion Takashi Miura (31-4-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at The Forum in Inglewood, California, USA.
The judges scored the bout 120-109, 119-108, and 116-111 for Berchelt, who was making his first world title defence.
Berchelt dropped Muira with a left hook to the head in the final seconds of the first round.
The Mexican continued to dominate the action with movement and…

IBO super middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr (25-1, 19 KOs) scored a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision over former two-weight world champion Arthur Abraham (46-6, 30 KOs) on Saturday night at the SSE Arena in London, England.
Eubank, 27, was not able to land the knockout punch, but unloaded heavy blows on the battle-hardened Abraham, 37, throughout and won by scores of 120-108 and 118-110 twice.
The Briton connected with a series of solid shots in the early rounds as the Armenian-born…