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Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez described as “shocking” the scores that existed at the time of his stoppage of Juan Francisco Estrada. Rodriguez, 24, recorded the finest victory of his career after producing one of his finest performance to recover from a knockdown to stop Mexico's admired…

Sunny Edwards faces another lengthy lay-off despite comprehensively outboxing Mexico’s Adrian Curiel on Saturday night.  Seven months after losing his IBF flyweight belt in a title unification fight with the then-WBO champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, in Glendale, Edwards returned to Arizona and outclassed the…

The eagerly awaited super-bantamweight clash between Liam Davies and Shabaz Masoud has been postponed. The fight had been due to headline Queensberry’s latest ‘Magnificent Seven’ show in Birmingham on July 20, but Davies has been forced to withdraw.  The world-ranked Davies confirmed the…

After his narrow victory over Sona Akale, Nico Ali Walsh took aim at both Teofimo Lopez and Jake Paul. Walsh scored a third-round left hook knockdown against Akale at middlweight in Miami Beach on Saturday night, on the undercard of Lopez’s WBO title defense…

Junior welterweight “Sugar” Cain Sandoval will headline against Romero Duno in a scheduled 10-round fight on Aug. 31 at Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California. The 21-year-old Sandoval (11-0, 9 KOs), of Sacramento, who began his professional career with 11 consecutive knockout wins,…

PHOENIX – Whatever boxing list there is, move Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez way up on it. The unbeaten San Antonio fighter captured a junior bantamweight belt for the second time Saturday night, this time doing it so convincingly by seventh-round knockout against Mexican legend and…

In 48 professional fights, Canada’s Steve Claggett has been stopped just once, in the final round of an eight-rounder back in 2011, when Wladimir Klitschko was heavyweight champion, Terence Crawford was a promising lightweight prospect and Teofimo Lopez was 13 years old. Lopez wasn’t…

PHOENIX – Sunny Edwards made the outcome a formality with his hand speed and boxing acumen, so when some drama stopped his evening short Saturday, he only had to wait for the numbers to provide his confirmation. Indeed, they did. Edwards returned from his…

PHOENIX – Yamileth Mercado works to smother her opponents. They attempt a punch. She sends back five. They raise their fist. She unleashes a combination, even punching the foe’s cocked arm. So it went again Saturday night, as the Mexican WBC junior featherweight…