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Junior middleweight Jeovanny Estela is back in his comfort zone. After a tough outing in his middleweight debut, the 24-year-old Estela is returning to 154lbs with a renewed respect for a boxing adage: weight classes exist for a reason. Estela, from Orlando, will face…

LOS ANGELES – Alexis Rocha has been reviving his career after getting within arm’s reach of realizing his world title aspirations. The welterweight suffered a crushing knockout loss to Giovani Santillan in October 2023. With that win, Santillan catapulted himself to an opportunity right…

Ahead of his first fight since agreeing co-promotional terms with Matchroom, Australia’s Teremoana Junior Teremoana has boldly predicted he will prove the “greatest heavyweight of my generation”. The 26 year old impressed at Paris 2024, where he was eliminated by the eventual champion, Bakhodir Jalolov…

Nick Ball accused TJ Doheny of quitting against Naoya Inoue when they met for the first time ahead of their WBA featherweight title fight on March 15 at Liverpool’s Echo Arena. Ball makes the second defense of his title after successfully stopping Ronny Rios back…

Cheavon Clarke has vowed to “inflict pain” on Leonardo Mosquea when on Saturday they contest the vacant European cruiserweight title at Salle Des Étoiles at Sporting Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Clarke, 33, and France’s 30-year-old Mosquea meet on the undercard of Murodjon Akhmadaliev-Ricardo Espinoza Franco, aware that victory could take…

ORLANDO – One of the great things about conventions is reuniting with a long-lost associate who has so much to catch you up on. Such was the case at the World Boxing Association Convention, where the opening day meant crossing paths with hall-of-fame trainer…

Natasha Jonas and Ivana Habazin, and Lauren Price and Bexcy Mateus, made weight for their welterweight world-title fights on Saturday night at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool. Jonas, 40 and the IBF champion, can be expected to next fight Price if she succeeds in winning…

Two-time Olympian and amateur world champion Tammara “Tamm” Thibeault has become the latest addition to the roster of fighters signed to Most Valuable Promotions (MVP). The signing comes just prior to Thibeault making her pro debut against fellow Canadian and WBA-ranked middleweight, Natasha “The Nightmare”…

They used to say the problem with Wladimir Klitschko was that he knew too much. He thought too much, he felt too much, and after suffering his first loss he expected the worst every time he set foot in a ring.  His decade-long dominance,…