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PHOENIX – Whatever boxing list there is, move Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez way up on it. The unbeaten San Antonio fighter captured a junior bantamweight belt for the second time Saturday night, this time doing it so convincingly by seventh-round knockout against Mexican legend and…

In 48 professional fights, Canada’s Steve Claggett has been stopped just once, in the final round of an eight-rounder back in 2011, when Wladimir Klitschko was heavyweight champion, Terence Crawford was a promising lightweight prospect and Teofimo Lopez was 13 years old. Lopez wasn’t…

PHOENIX – Sunny Edwards made the outcome a formality with his hand speed and boxing acumen, so when some drama stopped his evening short Saturday, he only had to wait for the numbers to provide his confirmation. Indeed, they did. Edwards returned from his…

PHOENIX – Yamileth Mercado works to smother her opponents. They attempt a punch. She sends back five. They raise their fist. She unleashes a combination, even punching the foe’s cocked arm. So it went again Saturday night, as the Mexican WBC junior featherweight…

One fight and six months after losing his WBO featherweight title by majority decision to Rafael Espinoza, Robeisy Ramirez knocked out Brandon Leon Benitez on Saturday at the James L. Knight Center in Miami Beach, Florida, to move back into the win column. After…

Jordan Roach had said he was “excited to start dropping people” – that the smaller gloves and lack of headgear in professional boxing would further allow the junior bantamweight prospect to spotlight his skills. And that’s what he got to do on…

Feargal McCrory spent a lot of time away from his loved ones for Friday’s opportunity in Washington, D.C., only to lose for the first time as a pro, stopped in the eighth round by WBA junior lightweight titleholder Lamont Roach Jr. “I’m devastated,”…

Lamont Roach Jr. got the eighth-round technical knockout win over Feargal McCrory — though the defending WBA titleholder thought the ending might have come sooner. There was a knockdown from a left hook in the third, two knockdowns from body shots in…

PHOENIX – Many things still need to happen, but that doesn’t mean the excitement over the future needs to be diminished. So Eddie Hearn soaked it all in this week in London as his former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and countryman Tyson Fury spent…