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The well-oiled machine that is hard-charging locomotive Luis Alberto Lopez looks to keep on chugging Saturday night by defending his IBF featherweight title for a fourth time against Angelo Leo. Lopez (30-2, 17 KOs) will once again hit the road to Albuquerque, New Mexico,…

The well-oiled machine that is hard-charging locomotive Luis Alberto Lopez looks to keep on chugging Saturday night by defending his IBF featherweight title for a fourth time against Angelo Leo. Lopez (30-2, 17 KOs) will once again hit the road to Albuquerque, New Mexico…

THERE is no defeat in boxing quite like the one suffered by a heavyweight. The punches responsible for it are louder, and more hurtful, and the scene of devastation is usually akin to that of a house party the morning after. Even for the lucky…

Vergil Ortiz and Serhii Bohachuk each made the junior middleweight limit for their main event Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Ortiz and Bohachuk came in at the same number — 153.8 pounds — with Ortiz standing behind…

Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Serhii Bohachuk each made the junior middleweight limit for their main event Saturday night at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Ortiz and Bohachuk came in at the same number – 153.8 pounds – with Ortiz standing…

Officially, Daniel Dubois is the IBF heavyweight champion. The 26-year-old Londoner is, however, continuing to talk like a challenger. Dubois insists that he wants to knock Anthony Joshua off his “pedestal” when they meet at Wembley Stadium on September 21.  In June, Dubois,…

Sam Noakes is targeting an eventual fight with Denys Berinchyk. Following the announcement of his date of September 6, at London’s York Hall, with Gianluca Ceglia – the mandatory challenger to his European lightweight title – he hopes to progress to world level in 2025.…

Oleksandr Usyk is open to a third fight with Anthony Joshua if Joshua beats Daniel Dubois in September. Usyk first fought Joshua in 2021, when the Ukrainian inflicted his second defeat and took the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles. They fought again a year…

Johnny Fisher will fight Ukraine’s Andrii Rudenko on September 28, on the undercard of Dalton Smith’s European junior-welterweight title fight with Jon Fernandez. Smith and Fernandez will contest the vacant EBU title at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, and by the time they do so…