Category: Boxing

WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs) will defend his title aganist Colombian challenger Miguel Marriaga ( 25-2, 21 KOs) on August 5 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.
The Ukrainan boxer had hoped to avenge his only pro defeat in a rematch with three-time featherweight world champion Orlando Salido, but the Mexican turned down the fight.
“Of course, I wanted to fight Salido but that’s not happening,” said Lomachenko. “Now I must deal with Marriaga,…

WBC and WBO light welterweight champion Terence Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs) will fight IBF and WBA champion Julius Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs) on August 19 in a unification clash at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Crawford, a two-division world champion, enters his 10th straight world title fight since outpointing Scotland’s Ricky Burns to win the WBO lightweight title in 2014.
And now the American will battle Namibia’s Indongo for all four major 140 pound world titles.
Indongo…

The quarter-final draws were made for the World Boxing Super Series super middleweight and cruiserweight tournament at the draft gala on Saturday night at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo.
In each weight class, eight elite boxers will fight in an elimination tournament. The four quarter-finals are due to take place in September and October this year, with the semi-final’s due to be next January and February and the finals of both divisions scheduled for May 2018. The winner of both the super…

WBA cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (30-2, 22 KOs) defeated Australia’s Mark Flanagan (22-4, 15 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision on Sunday night at the DIVS in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Lebedev floored Flanagan in the ninth round on the way to retaining his title by scores of 119-108, 119-108 and 120-107.
The Russian fighter was always in control, increasing his punch rate as the fight progressed, while Flanghan threw just enough punches to keep him in the contest.
 Lebedev dropped…

WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (33-0, 13 KOs) will fight mandatory challenger Felix Verdejo (23-0, 15 KOs) on September 16 at the Copper Box Arena in London, England.
Flanagan, 28, will be making his sixth world title defence since winning the vacant WBO belt in a second round injury stoppage win over Jose Zepeda in July 2015. The fight was stopped after Zepeda suffered a dislocated left shoulder. The Englishman went on to defeat Diego Magdaleno, Derry Mathews, Mzonke Fana, Orlando…

Underdog and hometown fighter Jeff Horn (17-0-1, 11 KOs) dethroned WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 KOs) by a controversial 12 round points decision on Sunday at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Many of the rounds were close and could of gone either way, but most observers felt Pacquiao had done enough to retain his 147 pound title. However the judges saw it differently with scores of 117-111 115-113 twice, all for Horn.
Little known Horn, 29, who…

IBF lightweight champion Robert Easter (20-0, 14 KOs) defeated Russian challenger Denis Shafikov (38-3-1, 20 KOs) by unanimous decision on Friday night at he Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio, USA.
Both fighters had their moments and exchanged blows throughout the fight, although two of the judges awarded Easter every round with scores of 120-108, while the third scored it 116-112 for the unbeaten champion.
Easter won rounds when he used his height and reach advantage to land jabs and hard…

WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (23-0, 18 KOs) will fight mandatory challenger Hughie Fury (20-0, 10 KOs) on September 23 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.
Fury, 22, was supposed to travel to Parker’s home country of New Zealand to fight him on May 6, but pulled out two weeks before the fight, citing a back injury.
Instead, Parker, 25, faced late substitute Razvan Cojanu and won a one-sided points decision. Now the New Zealander will travel for his first fight in the UK as…

Former pound-for-pound king Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez (46-1, 38 KOs) will attempt to regain the WBC flyweight title in a rematch with Srisaket Sor Rungvisai (42-4-1, 38 KOs)  on September 9, likely to take place in Los Angeles.
The rematch headlines an all super flyweight triple-header, which features the US debut of Japan’s two-weight world champion Naoya “Monster” Inoue  (13-0, 11 KOs), who will be defending his WBO 115 pound title against American challenger Antonio Nieves…

WBA, WBO, and IBF light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (32-0, 16 KOs) won his rematch with Sergey Kovalev (30-2-1, 26 KOs)  by eighth round TKO on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas.
In their first fight in November, Ward rallied from a second round knockdown to win a disputed decision against Kovalev, who many believed won the bout.
The rematch was no less controversial.
Ward hurt Kovalev with a right hand to the head, then hit Kovalev with three low blows…