Category: Boxing

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (34-0, 33 KOs) will defend his belt against little-known French fighter Johann Duhaupas (32-2, 20 KOs) on September 26 in his home state of Alabama.
Wilder, 29, will be making the second defence of the title he won when outpointing Bermane Stiverne in January.
Since then, the 6’7″ champion has step back in competition to the level he was fighting before he won the belt – in June he fought part time fighter-full time teacher Eric Molina, whom he stopped…

WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (28-0, 11 KOs) defends his title against Diego Magdaleno (28-1, 12 KOs), and Liam Smith (20-0-1, 10 KOs) will face Michel Soro (27-1-1, 17 KOs) for the vacant WBO light middleweight title on the  Andy Lee-Billy Joe Saunders undercard on October 10 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester.
Flanagan will be making his first defence against Puerto Rican Magdanelo, who lost his previous world title attempt against countryman Roman Martinez by a split…

Poland’s Krzysztof Glowacki (25-0, 16 KOs) upset long-reigning WBO cruiserweight champion Marco Huck (38-3-1, 26 KOs) by stopping him in the 11th round at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
In a good action fight, both men was sent to the canvas and exchanged hard punches throughout.
Glowacki came out firing in the opener and rocked Huck with a right hand at the end of the round. The challenger continued to attack in the following rounds, but Huck came back with some punches of his…

WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) will defend his title against Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) on November 21 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
The 34-year-old Cotto, who will be making his second defence of the belt, and Canelo, 25, will fight at a catch-weight of 155 pounds.
Cotto become the first Puerto Rican to win world titles in four different weight classes when he stopped Sergio Martinez in the 10th round in June 2014.
Cotto said: “I will give the…

WBO middleweight champion Andy Lee’s world title defence against British challenger Billy Joe Saunders has been moved from Thomond Park on September 19 to Manchester on October 10.
The reason given was that Irishman Lee has been suffering from a virus – thus forcing the fight to be postponed. And Saunders’ promoter Frank Warren confirmed the fight would now take place at the Manchester Arena.
Lee’s promoter Lou DiBella said: “I got a call from Andy Booth  (Lee’s manager and trainer), who…

WBC Flyweight champion Roman Gonzalez (43-0, 37 KOs) will defend his title against former two-division world champion Brian Viloria (36-4, 22 KOs) on October 17 on the undercard of the middleweight title unification bout between Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) and David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Gonzalez, of Nicaragua, will make his third title defence against the American veteran, announced on Tuesday by K2 Promotions and Teiken Promotions, in one of the…

WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (26-1-0, 21 KOs) will fight challenger Tommy Karpency (25-4-1, 14 KOs) on September 11 at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, Canada.
Stevenson, who won the belt when knocking out Chad Dawson in 76 seconds in June 2013, will be making his sixth title defence against American Karpency.
“I’m excited to announce my next fight on September 11 in Toronto against Tommy Karpency,” said Stevenson. “I’m ready to put the hurt on. I work hard and stay…

WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (26-1-0, 21 KOs) will fight challenger Tommy Karpency (25-4-1, 14 KOs) on September 11 at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, Canada.
Stevenson, who won the belt when knocking out Chad Dawson in 76 seconds in June 2013, will be making his sixth title defence against American Karpency.
“I’m excited to announce my next fight on September 11 in Toronto against Tommy Karpency,” said Stevenson. “I’m ready to put the hurt on. I work hard and stay…

WBA bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell (26-2-1, 12 KOs) will defend his title against Tomoki Kameda (31-1, 19 KOs) in a rematch on Sptember 6 at American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas.
In their first fight, the Doncaster man claimed a dramatic victory, getting off the canvas in the third round to score a unanimous decision over the Japanese fighter to retain his title in May, also in Texas.
But McDonnell got the verdict by the narrow margin of 114-113 on all three cards, and said after…

Floyd Mayweather (48-0, 26 KOs) has confirmed he will fight Andre Berto (30-3, 23 KOs) on September 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Mayweather, 38, outpointed Manny Pacquiao in his last outing, billed as “Fight of the Century”, in May and will now attempt to equal Rocky Marciano’s record of 49-0 when he faces fellow-American Berto, in what he has said will be the final fight of his brilliant 19-year career.
“I’m ready to get back in the ring on 12 September and prove again to the whole world…