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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…

Super middleweight Darius Fulghum is gearing up for a dominant 2025, promising growth, development and plenty of knockouts. Fulghum, a 28-year-old Houston native, secured a third-round technical knockout over veteran Christopher Pearson on Saturday night. His calculated aggression left no doubt about his intent…

Brian Norman Jnr was supposed to make the first defense of his WBO welterweight title in Derrieck Cuevas on November 8, only to pull out of the bout several weeks ago because of a hand injury. At the time, Norman’s team said…

Gabriela Fundora, at just 22, made history on Saturday night, becoming the youngest undisputed women’s flyweight champion in history with a seventh-round TKO over Argentina's Gabriela Celeste Alaniz at The Theater at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. Fundora, who hails from Coachella, California, and…