ONTARIO, California – The junior middleweight bout between Charles Conwell and Gerardo Vergara got off to a slow start Saturday, but the decorated American quickly separated himself from the unknown Argentinian southpaw using his superior skills and power to score a seventh-round stoppage win at…
Richardson Hitchins says he’d like to make his first defense of his IBF light welterweight title against Devin Haney next. Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) feels that a fight between him and Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) would do big numbers on PPV due to the people…
Felix “Tito” Trinidad was honored Saturday with a new belt and the status of centennial champion at the WBA convention in Orlando, Florida. He is the second fighter, after Manny Pacquiao in 2021, to achieve the status with the sanctioning body. Entering the stage…
Promoter Eddie Hearn called out Naoya Inoue to fight his #1 WBA contender, Murodjon Akhmadaliev (13-1, 10 KOs), following his third-round knockout victory over Ricardo Espinoza (30-5, 25 KOs) on Saturday night at the Salle des Étoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
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Former WBC welterweight titleholder Shawn Porter thinks David Benavidez-David Morrell is an even fight. Benavidez, of Arizona, and Cuba’s Morrell will lock horns on February 1 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in a 175-pound contest – with the winner expected to meet…
Tonight in Monte Carlo, Murodjon Akhmadaliev showed zero ring rust in chopping down and taking out a game Ricardo Espinoza to take the vacant interim WBA super-bantamweight belt. The southpaw from Uzbekistan was sharp as a razor tonight, his lefts and rights landing bang on…
Former IBF & WBA World Super Bantam champion Murodjon ‘MJ’ Akhmadaliev (13-1, 10 KOs) stopped Ricardo Espinoza (30-5, 25 KOs) in the third round, scoring three knockdowns to win the WBA interim 122-lb title on Saturday night at the Le Casino in Salle des Etoiles,…
LIVERPOOL - Natasha Jonas defeated Ivana Habazin to unify the WBC and IBF welterweight titles and set up a unification fight with Lauren Price next year. Jonas countered well against the resilient Habazin to take a unanimous decision on all three judges' scorecards. The…
The two best heavyweights in the world are Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury. The best heavyweight in the world is Usyk — for at least another week, until Usyk either reasserts his status in their December 21 rematch in Riyadh or Fury regains the throne…