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Filipino southpaw Pedro Taduran captured his second world title with a surprise ninth-round victory in Japan over Ginjiro Shigeoka. The 27-year-old overcame some early difficulties but Shigeoka suffered damage to his right eye in the fourth and the Japanese star couldn’t cope with the pressure…

Everybody knew that Moses Itauma was too young and too fast for Mariusz Wach. On Saturday night, the 19-year-old heavyweight proved that he was also just too clever, too powerful and too technically good for the 44-year-old Polish veteran.  Itauma’s timing and distance were…

After he was roundly beaten and forced to turn over his welterweight title to Terence Crawford last July, it’s fair to wonder whether we’ve seen the last of the best of Errol Spence Jr. In Thursday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analyst Shawn…

Derek Chisora kept his career alive Saturday at London's O2 Arena with a hard-fought, toe-to-toe win over Joe Joyce. Chisora averaged 19 punches landed on 56 total punches per round (34 percent connect rate), compared to 21 of 84 (25 percent) for Joyce. Chisora, who…

Jan Paul Rivera earned a seventh-round stoppage against the previously unbeaten Justin Goodson in the Most Valuable Prospects 7 series Friday at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida. Rivera (10-0, 6 KOs), a 23-year-old featherweight prospect from Salinas, Puerto Rico, showed off precision, speed and power…

Claressa Shields said she would have more power behind her shots on Saturday night and proved true to her word as she stepped up in weight, dropping and stopping Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse in the second round and adding the WBC heavyweight and WBO light heavyweight titles…

Michel Rivera made it two wins in a row as the junior welterweight contender dropped Argentina's Hugo Roldan in the 10th and final round to cement a split decision win at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit on Saturday night. Although one judge bizarrely scored…

With Vasiliy Lomachenko seemingly unwilling to face Gervonta “Tank” Davis this November, Isaac "Pitbull" Cruz says he's ready to step in. First, Cruz, the WBA junior welterweight titleholder, must get past the dangerous Jose "Rayo" Valenzuela (13-2, 9 KOs) on Aug. 3, in the co-feature…

Claressa Shields has dismissed suggestions Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse represents the toughest challenge of her career. On Saturday at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena, the undisputed middleweight champion moves to light heavyweight to fight Lepage-Joanisse for not only the vacant WBO title, but the heavyweight title of the…