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Due to the forecast of rain, the public workouts ahead of Vasiliy Lomachenko’s vacant IBF lightweight title fight with George Kambosos were moved indoors, and as the final stages of the build-up ticked by, the fighters shared as astonishingly long-face off, that lasted more than…

Basildon’s Danny Dignum, 16-1-1 (9 KOs), and Denzel Bentley, 18-3-1 (15 KOs), of Battersea both successfully made the middleweight limit ahead of the contest that headlines Saturday night’s Queensberry promotion at London’s York Hall.  Bentley and Dignum both came up short in fights with…

Trainer Shane McGuigan said Caroline Dubois will have her eye on newly-minted IBF lightweight champion Beatriz Ferreira after the Brazilian won the vacant crown with a Yanina del Carmen Lescano. McGuigan, who has always championed Dubois’s prospects, can see the two meeting in the…

Promoter Paco Damian has a knack for finding hidden gems. He’s optimistic that his latest protege can be polished into the diamond of his roster. Daniel Lugo, Damian’s fighter, is set to take on Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez in a junior lightweight bout Saturday in…

Welterweight Blair Cobbs recently signed with Don King Promotions, and shortly afterwards he was signed to fight Adrien Broner. Yet, in a recent press release ominous words hung over the poster that read “If Broner shows up”.  The bout, scheduled for June 7 at…

Maxi Hughes believes that George Kambosos Jr has to “throw caution to the wind” and fight like Orlando Salido to stand any chance of victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko on Sunday. Kambosos Jr and Lomachenko contest the IBF lightweight title at the RAC Arena in…

Naoya Inoue and Luis Nery worked out of a brief clinch, and the southpaw Nery was crouched slightly lower than Inoue. Seeing his opponent’s head at shoulder level, Inoue popped him in the chin with a short left uppercut, but there wasn’t much on it…

Few fighters have served as long an apprenticeship as Ryan Garner. It is eight years since “The Piranha” arrived on the scene as an 18-year-old prodigy, giving elite professionals all they could handle in the gym and producing the type of performances that looked…

Jessica McCaskill and her trainer-manager-husband Rick Ramos put their honeymoon plans on hold to prepare for Saturday’s fight with Lauren Price. The 29-year-old Price challenges McCaskill for her WBA welterweight title at the Cardiff International Arena in Wales on the occasion of her first…