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  • Lomachenko outclasses Sosa in nine

    WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (8-1, 6 KOs) outclassed and then stopped Jason Sosa (20-2-4, 15 KOs) at the end of the ninth round on Saturday night at the MGM National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Lomachenko, one of the best pound for pound fighters in boxing, dominated the entire fight before Sosa’s trainer Raul  Rivas asked referee Kenny Chevalier to halt the one-sided bout. Sosa, who vacated his WBA ‘regular’ title in order to fight Lomachenko, showed his…

  • Flanagan outpoints Petrov to retain WBO lightweight title

    WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (33-0, 13 KOs) defeated mandatory challenger Petr Petrov (38-5-2, 19 KOs) by unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Manchester Arena. The Manchester man outboxed Petrov in most of the rounds and won by scor…

  • Andre Ward-Sergey Kovalev rematch set for June 17

    IBF, WBA and WBO light heavyweight champion Andre Ward (31-0, 15 KOs) will fight previous titleholder Sergey Kovalev (30-1-1, 26 KOs) in a rematch on June 17 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Ward will defend the world titles he won from Kovalev by a disp…

  • Mairis Briedis beats Marco Huck to win WBC cruiserweight title

    Mairis Briedis (22-0, 18 KOs) outpointed two-time world champion Marco Huck (40-4-1, 27 KOs) to win the vacant WBC cruiserweight title on Saturday night at the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. Bredis won a unanimous decision by scores of 116-111, …

  • Terence Crawford to defend against Felix Diaz on May 20

    Unbeaten American Terence Crawford (30-0, 21 KOs) will defend his WBC and WBO light welterweight titles against Felix Diaz (19-1, 9 KOs) on May 20 at Madison Square Garden. Crawford is coming off a one-sided eighth round TKO victory over John Molina J…

  • Tyron Zeuge wins technical decision over Isaac Ekpo to retain WBA title

    WBA super middleweight champion Tyron Zeuge (20-0-1, 11 KOs) retained his title with a fifth round technical decision over Isaac Ekpo (31-3, 24 KOs) at the MBS Arena in Potsdam, Germany. Unbeaten German Zeuge was getting the better of the Nigerian chal…

  • Linares outpoints Crolla again in one-sided rematch

    WBA lightweight champion Jorge Linares (42-3, 27 KOs) retained his title with a dominant points win over Anthony Crolla (31-6-3, 13 KOs) in their rematch on Saturday night at the Manchester Arena. Three-weight world champion Linares dethroned Crolla b…

  • Kell Brook to battle Errol Spence at Bramall Lane on May 27

    IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (36-1, 25 KOs) will defend his title against mandatory challenger Errol Spence (21-0, 18 KOs) on May 27 at Bramall Lane in Sheffield. Brook won the IBF belt when outpointing Shawn Porter in August 2014, and makes h…

  • Golovkin edges out Jacobs, Sor Rungvisai outguns Gonzalez

    WBA/WBC/IBF middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (37-0, 34 KO’s) battled to a hard fought points win over WBA ‘regular’ titleholder Danny Jacobs (32-2, 29 KO’s) on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. Golovkin’s knockout streak ended at 23 straight opponents as he was forced to go 12 rounds for the first time in his career. Jacobs, a cancer survivor, rose from a fourth-round knockdown and gave the Kazakh superstar all he could handle before Golovkin was awarded a unanimous…

  • Demetrius Andrade outpoints Jack Culcay to win WBA light middeweight title

    Demetrius Andrade (24-0, 16 KOs) outpointed defending champion Jack Culcay (22-2, 11 KOs) by a 12 round split decision to win the WBA light middleweight title on Saturday night at the Friedrich-Ebert Halle in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The Judges scored t…