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Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Xander Zayas aims to continue his surge to the top of the division against Slawa Spomer next weekend (February 14). They meet at The Theater in Madison Square Garden on (February 14) and Spomer, born in Kyrgyzstan but living…

Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Sadriddin Akhmedov, of Astana, Kazakhstan, will take on Elias Espadas at the Commerce Casino on Saturday, April 19. Promoted by Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions, the 15-0 (13 KOs) Akhmedov – trained by Abel Sanchez – meets the 23-6 (16 KOs)…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Southwest Flight 3589 out of Las Vegas was just finishing boarding Sunday afternoon when a couple of Nashvillians were chit-chatting about the previous night’s David Benavidez-David Morrell Jnr fight at T-Mobile Arena. Talk turned to the boxing scene back home and a…

David Benavidez never got to fight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez when both were still at super middleweight, when Benavidez was both the mandatory challenger and the de facto top remaining contender for Alvarez’s championship. But that won’t keep Benavidez, who’s now a light heavyweight contender,…

Dave Allen expects a rematch between himself and fellow heavyweight Johnny Fisher could happen “pretty soon”. Allen and Fisher were involved in an entertaining battle on the undercard of Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury II in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in December. Fisher, 25, was heavily favored…

Adam Azim’s trainer Shane McGuigan believes that the in-demand contest between his fighter and Azim’s domestic rival Dalton Smith “isn’t far away”. Azim on Saturday put on a beatdown on the former IBF junior-welterweight champion Sergey Lipinets until the referee Steve Gray decided that…

The rivalry between David Benavidez and David Morrell was heated and passionate before they entered the ring, and that tension continued between the two light heavyweight contenders during their fight Saturday night. But any animosity ended once the bout concluded, at least according to…

It has emerged that retired heavyweight Alexander Povetkin is currently serving a four-year ‘period of ineligibility’ following an investigation which uncovered the previously unreported presence of banned substance ostarine in a sample provided by the Russian in 2014.   The case, which is part of…

Queensberry Promotions have confirmed that they have signed a promotional contract with the heavyweight Delicious Orie. BoxingScene reported on Monday that the British Olympian’s career will be promoted by Frank Warren and guided by the trainer Grant Smith out of the Steel City Gym in…