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The junior middleweight division of yesterday, when Jermell Charlo was around, was a lot of fun. The junior middleweight division of today is also a lot of fun – and that is partly because Charlo is no longer around. For several entertaining years, the…

Tim Tszyu lost for the first time when in March, in Las Vegas against Sebastian Fundora, a significant cut in his scalp contributed to him recording a split-decision defeat. On Saturday at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, the 29-year-old and Bakhram Murtazaliev contest…

William Scull, now 23-0,  won the vacant IBF super middleweight title with a unanimous decision over US-based Russian Vladimir Shishkin. It was scored 116-113, 116-112 and 115-113  for Scull after a close, tense, tactical fight in which Shishkin tried to attack while Scull was looking…

Lewis Edmondson shocked Dan Azeez to win the British and Commonwealth light heavyweight titles at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. The matchup between Edmondson, now 10-0 (3 KOs), and Azeez, now 20-2-1 (13 KOs), failed to catch fire but Edmondson did just enough…

Adam Azim, now 12-0 (10 KOs), produced a stunning display to stop Ohara Davies (25-4, 18 KOs) in eight rounds at the Copper Box Arena in London, England. Azim and Davies had spent all fight week talking up their admiration and respect for each other…

Watching Junto Nakatani lift his record to 29-0 with a 22nd knockout to close a two-day festival of title fights in Tokyo last week left Top Rank President Todd DuBoef feeling quite confident over a matter certain to thrill the boxing public. “I thought…

Anthony Yarde, now 26-3 (24 KOs) made an underwhelming start to life on BOXXER and Sky Sports with a hard-fought win over the game Ralfs Vilcans (17-2, 7 KOs). Yarde, 29, had been out of the ring for four months but made a flying start,…

In the modern, and increasingly corporate, landscape of boxing promotion, Main Events continues to exist largely like a relic to what is often recognised as a golden era and a fondly remembered past. The late Dan Duva, for so long its figurehead, died in…

Argentinian Lucas Bastida (22-3-1) stopped Ukrainian, based in Latvia, Bohdan Sobol (18-1) 30 seconds into the eighth round of their middleweight bout in Riga, Latvia.   Basitida was the sharper puncher of the two and floored Sobol in the second. Sohol, however, came back afterwards…