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On February 18, we ranked the fights on the “Last Crescendo” card based on the quality of the matchups. Now that we’ve witnessed each of the seven contests, it’s time to rank them again based on the quality of the action.  Entertainment,…

Champion Junto Nakatani and challenger David Cuellar both came in under the bantamweight limit for their WBC title fight on Monday in Japan. Nakatani, 29-0 (22 KOs), hit the scales at 117.5lbs for his third title defense, while Cuellar, 28-0 (18 KOs), weighed 117.25lbs…

Luis Nery bounced back from his loss to Naoya Inoue on Saturday, stopping Kyonosuke Kameda in the seventh round at the Municipal Auditorium in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico. Nery, 36-2 (28 KOs), dropped Kameda, 15-4-2 (9 KOs), twice in the seventh round, compelling…

JAMESTOWN, Calif. – Junior middleweight Xander Zayas’ trainer, Javiel Centeno, says that the team is watching the result of Sebastian Fundora-Chordale Booker on March 22 at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.  Zayas is coming off a ninth-round technical knockout victory of Slawa…

At “The Last Crescendo” card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Terence Crawford and Teofimo Lopez Jnr appeared to make peace. Lopez had provoked Crawford’s ire over the past several months with a number of bizarre, racist statements. When Crawford confronted Lopez directly, in…

The prevailing logic heading into rematches is that whoever won the first fight usually wins the second one easier. Dmitry Bivol upended that logic on Saturday night, when he earned revenge against the only man to defeat him as a professional. Bivol defeated his…

Few fighters have been so equally matched, at such a high level, with so much on the line as Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. And that was just last October. On Saturday, under similarly steeped circumstances, the Russian countrymen ran it back in…

It wasn’t the opponent he had been expecting or the meaningful matchup for which he had been planning, but Joseph Parker continued his late-career resurgence with a second-round knockout of Martin Bakole on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The fight was the co-main event…

For Shakur Stevenson, a matchup with Josh Padley was just what the doctor ordered. Stevenson delivered the sort of entertaining performance he needed to kick-start the latest chapter of his career, stopping the game British fighter at the end of the ninth round on…