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LAS VEGAS – Franchon Crews-Dezurn is seeking a path for a rematch with women’s heavyweight titleholder Claressa Shields, the manager of the WBC women’s super middleweight titleholder told BoxingScene on Friday. Crews-Dezurn, who dropped a four-round unanimous decision to Shields in their joint 2016…

Junior middleweight Milan Prat is hoping to return against WBA No.1-ranked contender Abass Baraou. The bout is tentatively scheduled for March 22 in France and no venue or date confirmed at the time of this writing – with some concern in Europe that…

Dalton Smith is eyeing bigger fish after blasting out Walid Ouizza in one round for the European junior welterweight title Saturday in Nottingham, England. Smith had been out of the ring for 10 months prior to his first-round finish of Ouizza at the Nottingham…

At the end of a hectic fight week, during which the fight itself almost didn’t happen, super middleweight Misael Rodriguez emerged victorious over Mexican countryman and rival Omar Chavez, the second son of legendary fighter Julio Cesar Chavez Snr. In the end, Rodriguez, a…

LAS VEGAS – Diego Pacheco needs lessons in victory like Saturday’s to become a world champion, and Steven Nelson was an obliging foe in bringing immense late pressure that tested the aspiring No. 1 super middleweight contender from South Central Los Angeles. “These are…

Cruz extends to 5-0 with a one-sided drubbing of Salcido. Cruz landed 20 of 61 punches per round (10 of 34 jabs) and 39% of his power punches, nearly getting the stoppage in 10th vs. Salcido, who's never been stopped & landed just 13% of his…

LAS VEGAS – The gold medal is already in Andy Cruz’s boxing cabinet. A world title moved a significant step closer Saturday night in the willing exchanges that paced him to a convincing lightweight victory over rugged Omar Salcido at The Cosmopolitan. It…

LAS VEGAS – Ernesto “Tito” Mercado wanted to announce his presence while WBC lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson sat ringside, and Mercado’s highlight-reel fourth-round TKO of former two-division champion Jose Pedraza did just that. “I want that punk right there,” Mercado said in the ring…

COMMERCE, California – Undisputed flyweight champion Gabriela Fundora has told BoxingScene that she anticipates an April return to the ring. Fundora claimed all four belts in November as she stopped unified 28-year-old Argentinian titleholder Gabriela Celeste Alaniz in the seventh round. Fundora, 22,…