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NEW YORK – As Keyshawn Davis walked into The Theater at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, an observer could be forgiven for mistakenly thinking they were actually at The Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. Local fans filling two 50-passenger buses, in addition to numerous…

Yair Gallardo eviscerated Carlos Miranda inside the first round of a light heavyweight clash scheduled for eight Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California . The fight closed out the preliminary, off-TV portion of the Golden Boy card topped by Oscar Duarte-Miguel…

This was a close fight as evidenced by the fact that in only one of the twelve rounds were the combatants separated by more than 4 landed punches. Barboza Jnr and Catterall swung and missed a lot, but Barboza Jnr was the more active fighter,…

MANCHESTER, England – Arnold Barboza Jnr edged past Jack Catterall to win a split-decision at the Co-op Live Arena. Barboza Jnr, 32-0 (11 KOs) narrowly defeated the home favorite Catterall, 30-2 (13 KOs), in a close contest for the WBO junior-welterweight interim title and…

MANCHESTER, England – Reece Bellotti had to wait longer than expected to get Michael Gomez Jnr in the ring, but he rid himself of his frustration by stopping him in nine rounds at the Co-op Live Arena. Bellotti, 20-5 (15 KOs), was originally scheduled…

Bellotti landed 140 more power punches than Gomez Jnr. 65% of Bellotti’s power punch lands were body punches. Bellotti landed 124 body punches while Gomez Jnr landed 14. Both of the knockdowns Bellotti scored came as a result of body shots. Gomez Jnr’s corner did…

MANCHESTER, England – Pat McCormack recorded the biggest win of his professional career when stopping Robbie Davies Jnr inside six rounds at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena. McCormack, 7-0 (5 KOs) and a Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallist, was facing his biggest threat yet in…

MANCHESTER, England – James “Jazza” Dickens made a statement to his junior-lightweight rivals by defeating the former title challenger Zelfa Barrett via unanimous decision at Manchester’s Co-op Live. It had been doubted whether Dickens, 35-5 (14 KOs), had enough left at the age of…

NEW YORK — After stopping a previously unbeaten fighter, Xander Zayas says he’s ready to run into a “Towering Inferno”. The 22 year old spoke after his ninth-round stoppage of Slawa Spomer at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He…