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Zak Miller became the new English featherweight champion on Saturday night, picking up the vacant title by outpointing Lewis Frimpong over 10 hard-fought rounds at Oldham Leisure Centre.  Last November, Miller emerged from the small halls to push quality British and Commonwealth champion, Nathaniel…

Liverpool’s Nick Ball would like a rematch with Rey Vargas after winning the WBA featherweight title on Saturday night. The new champion took the belt from Raymond Ford on a split decision after a pulsating, high quality 12-rounder in Saudi Arabia and, in the aftermath,…

Dmitry Bivol’s unification fight with Artur Beterbiev is back on, and it has been scheduled for October 12 to open Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia. They were due to fight last night (June 1) but Beterbiev – the WBC, IBF and WBO champion –…

Promoter Eddie Hearn doesn’t believe Deontay Wilder is the same fighter who held the WBC heavyweight title from 2015 to 2020. Wilder was stopped for the third time in his career on Saturday night at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Zhilei Zhang, who…

Tim Tszyu’s fall from heavily favored to stand as a unified junior middleweight champion against a replacement opponent to a man indefinitely sidelined by a nasty head cut that this week forced his withdrawal from an Aug. 3 bout with Vergil Ortiz Jr. is a…

Heavyweight Zhilei Zhang knocked out Deontay Wilder on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, possibly marking the end of the 38-year-old Wilder’s career and setting the stage for Zhang to enjoy a potential homecoming in China. The fifth-round KO completed a clean sweep for Queensberry…

South African junior bantamweight champion Phumelele “The Truth” Cafu has linked up with trainer and manager Colin Nathan. Cafu is ranked No. 4 by the IBF and No. 3 with the WBO. “Yes, it's true, I’ve joined Nomakanjani [Nathan’s nickname in South Africa],”…

On Friday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analysts Paulie Malignaggi and Chris Algieri parse out the latest details of the Ryan Garcia PEDs-testing saga. While Malignaggi puts the odds of supplement contamination in “Mega Millions” territory and Algieri notes that the timing and trace…

Anthony Joshua would rather have been inside the ring than merely watching on Saturday night. He saw his prospective September opponent, Daniel Dubois, beat Filip Hrgovic in Saudi Arabia, then witnessed his long-time nemesis Deontay Wilder surely reach the end of the line against Zhilei…