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After pondering a few options for his new trainer, former featherweight title challenger Michael Conlan has selected Grant Smith. The other options included Stephen Smith and Buddy McGirt. “I appreciate the time I’ve had with all the guys I’ve worked with. It’s been…

Michael Angeletti is balancing two careers – as a professional bantamweight and as a real estate agent.  He will fight Geraldo Valdez in the co-feature of Wednesday Night Fights, live on the ProBox TV app from the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.…

Nick Ball and Ronny Rios were both relishing the opportunity of fighting in front of a packed-out Liverpool crowd at today’s press conference for their fight on October 5.   Ball will make the first defense of his WBA featherweight title and will fight in…

When Angelo Leo unleashed a perfect left hook to send Luis Alberto Lopez crashing to the canvas and out for the count on August 10, he not only put himself in the running for knockout of the year, but he also pulled off a major…

The appeal of Wednesday night’s Jarrett Hurd-Jeison Rosario middleweight showdown on ProBox TV isn’t just the final-stand nature of this battle between two former unified 154-pound champions. It’s also hitched to the notion that their prominent names can move them in victory to a…

Liam Davies has a way with words. “I’m quite good at saying things at certain times. I remember the night I fought Jason Cunningham. I went out with my brother to watch Owen Cooper. George [Warren, from Queensberry Promotions] came out and sat down…

Amid the layoffs and losses endured by Jarrett Hurd and Jeison Rosario were likely moments when they resisted, wrestled with, and realised the truth that boxing, for now, is what they were put on this earth to do. At some point on Wednesday night, during…

The replacement champion to wear Canelo Alvarez’s stripped super-middleweight belt will be decided in the fall following Tuesday’s agreement by representatives for William Scull and opponent Vladimir Shishkin. Unified 168-pound and four-division champion Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs) surrendered the belt by opting not to…

Being designated a main-event fighter by Roy Jones Jr. is all the promotion India’s Mandeep Jangra needs as he looks to extend his unbeaten start by headlining Jones’ next Legends Casino card, Sept. 19 in Toppenish, Wash. Super-featherweight Jangra (10-0, 7 KOs) trains under…