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Hamburg – The veteran cruiserweight Badou Jack, reinstated as the WBC champion, is targeting a fight with the winner of the fight expected to take place between Jai Opetaia and Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez in 2025. Opetaia, the IBF champion, and Ramirez, who holds the…

Top Rank have agreed what they have described as a “long-term promotional contract” with the junior lightweight Dedrick Crocklem. The 20 year old is a seven-time national amateur champion, and will make his professional debut on January 10 in a four-round contest with Nesly Trezile…

HAMBURG – Eddie Hearn is looking to start 2025 with two Matchroom promotions in January. They will come before a likely fight on February 15 between Jack Catterall and Arnold Barboza in Manchester, in an eliminator for the WBO title held by Teofimo Lopez.…

HAMBURG – Eddie Hearn revealed he is keen on matching Jaron “Boots” Ennis with Teofimo Lopez after news broke that talks to match them had begun. Ennis is the IBF welterweight champion, while Lopez has been undisputed champion at lightweight and WBO junior-welterweight champion…

HAMBURG – Sebastian and Gabriela Fundora are at the WBC Convention in Germany, both hoping to find out what the next steps in their careers might be. It is likely that Sebastian, the WBC and WBO junior middleweight champion, will fight Errol Spence next,…

Caroline Dubois has been elevated to the status of WBC lightweight champion after Katie Taylor vacated their title. Dubois will make the first defence of her title – she was the interim champion – against Canada’s Jessica Camara, 36, at the Canon Medical Arena in…

HAMBURG – On Wednesday morning, at the always-popular ratings committee, fighters, agents, managers and promoters all fought their corners, trying to move up the ladder with the WBC at the sanctioning body’s 62nd Annual Convention. A rundown of some of the highlights follows.…

Justis Huni rounded out a successful 2024 with a straightforward second-round stoppage of Leandro Daniel Robutti at Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, Queensland. The 25-year-old Australian has worked his way up the WBO and IBF heavyweight rankings over the previous twelve months but took…

As if watching a stunt performed on a talent show, with certain boxers there would always come a warning: Don’t Try This at Home. You would find yourself watching someone like Roy Jones Jnr or “Prince” Naseem Hamed assert their dominance in the ring and…