Category: Boxing

IBF super featherweight champion Gervonta Davis  (17-0, 16 KOs) will make the first defence of his title against Britain’s Liam Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs) on May 20 at the Copper Box Arena in London. Davis dethroned Jose Pedraza by seventh round stoppage in January to become boxing’s youngest current world champion at age 22, and he will now defend the IBF belt in his first professional bout on foreign soil. “I always wanted to come to the UK and fight,” said Davis. “Many of my fans are based…

Two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi has confirmed his retirement from boxing following last Saturday’s defeat to British contender Sam Eggington at London’s O2. Malignaggi, who has won world titles at welterweight and light welterweight, made …

WBA welterweight champion Keith Thurman (28-0, 22 KOs) outpointed WBC titleholder Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 KOs) by a 12 round split decision in a unification bout on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Thurman won the clash of two undefeated,…

WBC cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew (29-2-1, 19 KOs) scored an 11th round TKO over former WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (28-3, 26 KOs) in a upset win on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London. Haye bravely battled on through a Achilles injury but fellow Brit Bellew floored him in the sixth and 11th rounds of the non-title heavyweight bout, before Haye’s corner threw in the towel. Both came out firing in the opening round but Haye missed with a lot of punches and Bellew was more…

Heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin (31-1, 23 KOs) has been handed a fine of $250,000 and banned indefinitely by the WBC for doping violations. Povetkin twice tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2016. WBC president Mauricio Sulaima…

WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (22-0, 18 KOs) will now be defending his title against British challenger Hughie Fury ((20-0, 10 KOs) on May 6  in Auckland, New Zealand, instead  of the original date of April 1. The fight between two y…

WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KO) scored a fifth round TKO over previously unbeaten Gerald Washington (18-1-1, 12 KO) on Saturday night at the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama. It was competitive while it lasted but Wilder’s tre…

Rey Vargas (29-0, 22 KOs) outpointed previously unbeaten Gavin McDonnell (16-1-2, 4 KOs) to win the vacant WBC super bantamweight title at the Ice Arena in Hull. The Mexican got the better of McDonnell throughout the fight and won a 12 round majority decision by scores of 117-111 and 116-112, while the third judge scored it a controversial 114-114. Vargas dominated most of the rounds by constantly landing shots and then getting out of the way of McDonnell’s punches. McDonnell showed his…

IBF featherweight champion Lee Selby (23-1, 8 KOs) will fight Andoni Gago (16-2-2, 5 KOs) in a non-title bout at the O2 Arena on March 4 on the David Haye vs Tony Bellew undercard. Selby was scheduled to make a mandatory title defence against Johnny B…

Adrien Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) scored a 10 round split decision over Adrian Granados (18-5-2, 11 KOs) on Saturday night at the Cintas Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Both had their moments and traded punches throughout the fight but Broner, fighting in his ho…