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If combat sports followed the tradition of Hollywood rom-coms and had meet cutes involving fighters and trainers, the one between Joseph Parker, the New Zealand heavyweight, and George Lockhart would have represented the perfect foundation on which to build. Imagine, if you can,…

JAMESTOWN, Calif. – Lightweight Gabriel Flores Jnr’s ProBox TV debut showcased his flash and toughness. Flores defeated Jose Arellano by way of unanimous decision via scores of 95-93, 99-89 and 98-90 in the main event on "Wednesday Night Fights" here at the Chicken…

Ahead of Saturday’s huge night of boxing in Riyadh, the BoxingScene team looks ahead to what it anticipates will happen in Saudi Arabia and, on a promotion featuring numerous main-event-worthy contests, discusses which fighter will make the biggest impact. Tris Dixon: This is…

JAMESTOWN, Calif. – Welterweight Emiliano Moreno’s seventh round technical knockout of Cesar Francis on Wednesday was overshadowed by the controversy of a premature stoppage by the referee. The bout ended at 2:44 of Round 7 on “Wednesday Night Fights” on ProBox TV here at…

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Vergil Ortiz Jnr faces, on paper, the toughest test of his professional career Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ortiz will defend his WBC interim junior middleweight title against former titleholder Israil Madrimov at the Kingdom Arena. Ortiz is coming off a close win over…

There remains a sense with Zhilei Zhang, even at the age of 41, that we’re yet to find out how good – or even average – he really is. The same might be said for Saturday’s opponent, fellow heavyweight contender Agit Kabayel, who in his…

JAMESTOWN, Calif. – Welterweight Cesar Francis will try to reinvent his career on the same network that launched him when he faces undefeated 19-year-old prospect Emiliano Moreno at the Chicken Ranch Casino Resort in Jamestown, California, in a ProBox TV show. Francis, of West…

It may be hard to believe now, but in February 2000, when Marco Antonio Barrera had just turned 26 years old, conventional wisdom held that his best days were already behind him, and that he was perhaps just one loss — one expected …