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After pummeling the likes of Juan Francisco Estrada, Sunny Edwards, Carlos Cuadras and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai over the last two and a half years, breakout star and WBC super flyweight champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez has ascended to the pound-for-pound list and is 20-0 (13 KOs).…

Turki Alalshikh of Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Season has announced a sponsorship union with Japan’s undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue that has a reported value of $19 million. Details of whether it will take some Inoue fights to Saudi Arabia, the U.S. or elsewhere…

The top four fighters in line for a shot at Teofimo Lopez’s WBO junior welterweight title are, in order, Arnold Barboza, Jack Catterall, Richardson Hitchins and Jose Ramirez. Hitchins will soon be taken out of consideration, given his December 7 bout with IBF titleholder…

What a difference a year makes. Last November, Shabaz Masoud was being given the big build. Ahead of his Matchroom debut against Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin, the slick junior featherweight was touted as not just a future world champion, but a future multi-weight world…

Rafael Espinoza will already be sharing the same card as Emanuel Navarette and Oscar Valdez. Perhaps he will soon be sharing a weight class – and possibly the ring – with them as well. Espinoza is scheduled to defend his WBO featherweight title against…

Junior lightweight Raymond Ford is set to debut in his new division on Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.  The 25-year-old Camden, New Jersey native Ford, now training out of Houston, will face Orlando Gonzalez in a matchup that caps a crazy…

The Irish light heavyweight Conor Wallace has signed a co-promotional agreement with Matchroom. Wallace, 28, is based in Australia, and to that end also promoted by Tasman Fighters and Goldstar Promotions. He fights Asemahle Wellem, 23 and of South Africa, on December 11 at the…

Ekow Essuman wants to test himself against the best welterweights on the planet after grinding out a tough, exciting win over Ben Vaughan in Birmingham last night.  Essuman, 21-1 (8 KOs), and Vaughan shared ten of the most uncompromising rounds of the year. Their…

Xander Zayas could face a fellow unbeaten junior middleweight in his next fight. That 154lb-opponent is Slawa Spomer, 19-0 (10 KOs), a 32-year-old from Germany. During a meeting of the WBO ratings committee at the sanctioning body’s convention in Puerto Rico, a member…