Category: Boxing

Unbeaten British contender Anthony Joshua (15-0, 15 KOs) will challenge Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21 KOs) for the IBF heavyweight title on April 9 at the O2 Arena in London. The undefeated American travels to England to make the first defence of the bel…

WBC flyweight champion Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (44-0, 38 KOs) will fight Puerto Rican challenger McWilliams Arroyo (16-2, 14 KOs) on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin-Dominic Wade fight on April 23 at the Forum in Inglewood, California. It wi…

Timothy Bradley (33-1-1, 13 KOs) has vacated his WBO welterweight title. The WBO ordered the American to defend his belt against mandatory challenger Sadam Ali, but Bradley instead opted to fight Manny Pacquiao for a third time and relinquish the titl…

WBA/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) will defend his titles against mandatory challenger Dominic Wade (18-0, 12 KOs) on April 23 at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The Kazakh fighter stopped David Lemieux in the 8th round …

Former British and Commonwealth super featherweight champion Kevin Mitchell (39-4, 29 KOs)  has retired from boxing. Mitchell withdrew from his European lightweight title bout against Finland’s Edis Tatli on March 18 and called time on his career…

Former world super middleweight champion Andre Ward (28-0, 15 KOs) will fight unbeaten contender Sullivan Barrera  (17-0, 12 KOs) on March 26 at Oracle Arena in Ward’s hometown of Oakland, California. It will be Ward’s first fight at light heavyweight after he vacated his WBA super middleweight title last November. “I don’t really have much to say other than this. On March 26, it will be very simple. I’ll be in a new weight class against a tough opponent but I’m coming with the same…

A shooting at a weigh-in for a boxing card has resulted in the death of a man at the Regency hotel in Dublin, Ireland. Gunmen disguised as police officers opened fire in a targeted attack, killing one man and injuring two others. Emergency services dis…

Former world super bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux (16-0, 10 KOs) will fight British champion James “Jazza” Dickens (21-1, 6 KOs) on the undercard of WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan’s defence against Derry Mathews on March 12 at the Echo Arena in Liverpool. Cuban Rigondeaux, who was stripped of his WBA and WBO world titles late last year due to inactivity, will make his British debut in a scheduled 10-round super bantamweight bout in Dickens’ hometown. “I really look forward…

WBC middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) will defend his title against Britain’s Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) in Las Vegas on May 7. The surprising match-up will take place at Canelo’s preferred catch-weight of 155 pounds – five po…

WBA/IBF/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (29-0-1, 26 KOs) overpowered former world champion Jean Pascal (30-4-1, 17 KOs) over seven rounds on Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Kovalev stopped Pascal in the 8th…