Category: Boxing

Mexican great Juan Manuel Marquez has 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 I…

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 incorrec…

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 scor…

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…

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-…

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…

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…

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 no…