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Cruiserweight Jai Opetaia is backing his countryman George Kambosos “all the way” in this Saturday’s vacant IBF lightweight title clash with Vasiliy Lomachenko in Perth, Australia.  Kambosos (21-2, 10 KOs) has the chance to become a two-time world champion this weekend following a dubious…

Vasiliy Lomachenko is heading into Saturday’s world title fight against George Kambosos knowing that his career is approaching the end.   Lomachenko faces Kambosos this weekend (May 12) for the vacant IBF lightweight title, in what will be the Ukrainian’s first fight back after losing…

Robbie Davies Jr. has a young family, but was spending most of his time commuting to and from London to train with coach Shane McGuigan. Something had to change. Davies faces former IBF junior welterweight champion Sergey Lipinets in a 10-round main event on Wednesday…

WBO super lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez will fight next on June 29 in Miami. He will box Calgary’s Steve Claggett, 38-7-2 (26 KOs), in his first fight since an unspectacular outing against Jamaine Ortiz in Las Vegas in February.  The always outspoken Lopez…

Robbie Davies Jr (23-4, 15 KOs) and Sergey Lipinets (17-3-1, 13 KOs) have both made the agreed catchweight limit of 142 pounds.  Davies Jr hit the scale at 141.6 pounds, with Lipinets also coming in 141.6 pounds ahead of tomorrow’s 10-round main event…

NEWARK, N.J. (May 7, 2024) — Newark’s three-division king is ready to defend his crown on native turf. Shakur Stevenson will make the inaugural defense of his WBC lightweight world championship against Armenian-born German Olympian Artem Harutyunyan on Saturday, July 6, at Prudential Center in his hometown of Newark,…

TOKYO – I don’t know what I was expecting, but it’s fair to say I wasn’t expecting that. The pitch of the cheers was different, the weigh-ins, the pageantry, the respect, the routines, it was all different. Spending a few days in Tokyo…

Dan Azeez, the former British, Commonwealth and European light heavyweight champion, will return to the ring on the June 15th undercard of Chris Billam-Smith-Richard Riakporhe II at Selhurst Park. It will mark a quick turnaround for the 34-year-old, who lost for the first time as…

By the time Terence Crawford steps into the ring to face Israil Madrimov in a Los Angeles soccer stadium on Aug. 3, he will have been inactive for 371 days. That’s one year, plus a leap day, plus five ordinary days. That’s 53 weeks. …