Monthly Archives: May 2024

Yamileth Mercado will defend her WBC junior featherweight title against Ramla Ali at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 29. They will meet on the card topped by the blockbuster clash between Juan Francisco Estrada and Jesse Rodriguez for the WBC and Ring Magazine junior bantamweight titles. Mercado…

All of the championship fighters have made weight in Perth, Western Australia head of Sunday’s Top Rank bill, with headliners Vasiliy Lomachenko and vacant IBF lightweight title co-challenger George Kambosos both came in under the 135lbs limit. (Vacant IBF Lightweight World Title - 12 Rounds) Vasiliy Lomachenko 134.9lbs.…

Featherweight titleholder Rafael Espinoza will make his first defense against Sergio Chirino at Fontainebleau Las Vegas in Las Vegas on June 21. Espinoza (24-0, 20 KOs) earned his belt last December, upsetting Robeisy Ramirez in a Fight of the Year contender. Despite being knocked…

Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury have both arrived safely in Saudi Arabia. In just over a week’s time, one of them will fly home as the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the world since Lennox Lewis outpointed Evander Holyfield in 1999. The meeting of…

Latvian light heavyweight Ricards Bolotniks says he is ready to take on fast-tracked Russian Imam Khataev in a matchup in which he believes his experience will prevail. Bolotniks (20-7-1, 8 KOs) will face off against Khataev (6-0, 6 KOs), a bronze medalist at the…

In Thursday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Chris Algieri discussed the possibility of a future matchup between unified junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue and former three-division titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko, who is set to face George Kambosos Jr. in a lightweight bout Sunday…