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 scores of 116-112, 120-108 and 118-110.
Flanagan boxed well behind his jab with good movement in the first round but Petrov landed some hard shots in the second.
However, the Russian could not sustain any attack as Flanagan landed punches often in the…
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 disputed unanimous decision last November.
Kovalev scored a second round knockdown but the American battled back to win the closely fought contest -114-113 on all three scorecards.
The Russian has exercised his right to an immediate rematch.
“You got…
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, 117-110, and 118-109.
The unbeaten Latvian used good movement and landed heavy blows throughout the fight. Serbian-born Huck, who resides in Germany, could not get any offence going. He tried to rally in the later rounds but Briedis remained in…
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 Jr in December and will be making his fifth title defence against Diaz, of the Dominican Republic.
After previously winning the WBO lightweight title, Crawford moved up to 140lb in 2015 and won the vacant WBO belt when he defeated Thomas Dulorme by…
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 challenger before he clashed heads with Ekpo in the third round and suffered a large cut over his right eye. The referee allowed the fight to continue and Ekpo had some success as he went on the attack in rounds four and five.
The ring doctor checked…
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 by unanimous decision in September, but this was even more one-sided.
Linares scored a seventh round knockdown on the way to winning by scores of 118-109 on all three scorecards.
Crolla landed the first meaningful shot of the bout, a left hook to…
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 his fourth world title defence at the home of Sheffield United FC.
The Sheffield fighter demolished Jo Jo Dan, Frankie Gavin and Kevin Bizier in his previous title defences before stepping up two weight divisions to face middleweight king…
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 the fight 116-112, 116-112 for Andrade and 115-114 for Culcay.
Andrade won more rounds by being the busier fighter but the Germany-based Ecuadorian Culcay had his moments, and the American was hurt in the 12th from a barrage of punches.
With the…