Former unified light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (31-0, 18 KOs) scored a 9th round stoppage over fellow American Paulie Malignaggi (33-7, 7 KOs) on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The unbeaten Garcia, who has now moved up to welterweight, punished former two-division world champion Malignaggi with his hard shots from the start and cut him over the right eye.
Any punch that Malignaggi did land, Garcia shook them off and continued his assaults. Malignaggi…
Campbell crushes Coyle in 10
2012 Olympic gold medalist Luke Campbell (12-0, 10 KOs) stopped hometown rival Tommy Coyle (21-3, 12 KOs) in the 10th round of their WBC lightweight eliminator on Saturday night at the KC Lightstream Stadium in Hull.
Campbell dropped his opponent with a body shot in the second round but Coyle soon regrouped and continued to charge at his southpaw foe.
But it was Campbell’s fast combinations that dominated the action and he sent Coyle down three times in the 10th from more sustained…
Demetrius Andrade stripped of WBO light middleweight title
Demetrius Andrade (21-0, 14 KOs) has been stripped of his WBO light middleweight title after 13 months of inactivity.
The 2008 US Olympian won the belt when he outpointed Vanes Martirosyan in November 2013 and defended it by stopping British challenger Brian Rose in the seventh round in June 2014. But now the WBO have stripped him of the title for failing to defend it since.
He was supposed to defend his title against Jermell Charlo last December, but Andrade turned down the purse…
WBA orders Perez-Crolla rematch after controversial draw
The WBA have ordered lightweight champion Darleys Perez (32-1-1, 20 KOs) to face British contender Anthony Crolla (29-4-3, 11 KOs) in a rematch following their disputed draw earlier this month.
Most observers thought Crolla had done enough to take the title especially because the Columbian visitor was deducted two points for lows blow in the later rounds.
But in the end, the fight was ruled a draw, with one judge scoring it 116-111 for the hometown favourite while the other two scored it…
Chudinov-Buglioni world title fight rescheduled for September 26
The WBA super middleweight title fight between champion Fedor Chudinov (13-0, 10 KOs) and British challenger Frank Buglioni (16-1-1, 12 KOs) has been rescheduled for September 26 at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London.
The 26-year-old Buglioni was due to face Chudinov, 27, last Friday night at the same venue, but the Russian withdrew two weeks’ prior to the fight with a broken nose he sustained in sparring.
Buglioni stayed busy and stopped Mexican Fernando Castaneda in the fifth round on the…
Kovalev halts overmatched Mohammedi in three
WBO, WBA and IBF light heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev (28-0-1, 25 KOs) demolished overmatched challenger Nadjib Mohammedi (37-4, 23 KOs) on Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas.
The Russian dropped Mohammedi in the second round before finishing him off in the third round of a one-sided encounter.
Kovalev was landing hard shots from the opening bell and soon had the Frenchman in all kinds of trouble during the second round.
The champion sent his opponent…
Gennady Golovkin to fight David Lemieux in unification bout on October 17
WBA and WBC interim middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) will meet IBF titlist David Lemieux (34-2, 31 KOs) in a unification bout on October 17 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Golovkin, who has knocked out all of his last 20 opponents and made 14 tsuccessful title defences, meets Canada’s Lemieux, who won his title in June by knocking down Hassan N’Dam four times on the way to a points win, in a match-up between two explosive punchers.
“It is a great unification fight…
Kid Galahad’s two-year ban upheld
British super bantamweight contender Kid Galahad has had his appeal against a two-year suspension rejected by the UK Anti-Doping agency.
The 25-year-old was the reigning European and Commonwealth champion when he tested positive for the banned steroid stanozolol after beating Adeilson Dos Santos for the vacant IBF youth super bantamweight title in September last year.
Galahad claimed he was spiked by his brother, who admitted this with a sworn affidavit.
But UKAD’s appeals panel were not…
Badou Jack-George Groves world title bout likely on Mayweather undercard
George Groves’ world title challenge against WBC super middleweight champion Badou Jack, originally scheduled for August 22 in Las Vegas, looks likely to take place on September 12 on the undercard of Floyd Mayweather’s next fight.
It’s possible that the bout is being pushed back three weeks to be part of the Mayweather card.
The Jack-Groves fight will be screened in America on Showtime, who have confirmed it will not take place on the original date.
“Showtime doesn’t have a live boxing event…
Abraham overpowers Stieglitz in six
WBO super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (43-4, 29 KOs) defeated former champion Robert Stieglitz (47-4-1, 27 KOs) by a sixth-round stoppage on Saturday night at Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle, Germany.
In their fourth fight, billed as the “Final Showdown,” the German fighter nicknamed “King Arthur” punished countryman Stieglitz with hard shots before dropping him with a right hand. Although Stieglitz beat the count, he was badly hurt and his trainer held up a towel in the corner to stop…