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Saturday night’s fight on ESPN failed to live up to expectations, with Xander Zayas (19-0, 12 KOs) winning a ten-round unanimous decision over former junior middleweight champion Patrick Teixeira (34-5, 25 KOs) in a lackluster contest at Madison Square Garden. The 21-year-old Zayas, promoted by…

In what could only be described as a huge mismatch, Bruce Carrington, floating somewhere between WBO #4 and WBC #7 in the featherweight rankings, dispatched Brayan De Gracia via an eighth-round TKO. Carrington flung De Gracia to the canvas in rounds five and seven before…

Undefeated #5 WBO 154-lb contender Xander Zayas (18-0, 12 KOs) squares off against Brazilian knockout artist Patrick Teixeira (34-4, 25 KOs) on a ten-round testing fight on ESPN. Zayas, 21, is being moved quickly by his promoter, Bob Arum, to take advantage of His Excellency’s…

You can file this KO right up there with Vincent Pettway’s chilling icing of Simon Brown. This week, on Thursday in Montreal, Canada, unbeaten 168 pound puncher Osley Iglesgias took out Russian veteran Evgeny Shvedenko in the opening round of their fight. The Cuban…

As fans know, Martin Bakole and Jared Anderson will square off in a very interesting and potentially explosive heavyweight encounter on August 3, this on the stacked, Terence Crawford headlined card in Los Angeles. And Bakole’s trainer Billy Nelson says he expects his man to…

Blair ‘The Flair’ Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) wants Ryan Garcia next following his ten-round unanimous decision over a very faded-looking Adrien Broner (35-5-1, 24 KOs) vs. Blair Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) last Friday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.…

Last night in Hollywood, Florida at The Hard Rock, Blair Cobbs picked up the biggest win of his career so far in very possibly ending the career of Adrien Broner. After 10 rounds of what was a pretty entertaining fight, Cobbs walked away with a…

At the Chumash Casino Resort, Callum Walsh from Cork, Ireland, kept his knockout streak alive, serving Carlos Ortiz from Mexico a solid performance and hanging onto his WBC Continental Americas Super Welterweight Title. The entire brawl was streamed for the world to see on UFC…

Welterweight Blair “The Flair” Cobbs (17-1-1, 10 KOs) came out blazing on Friday night, dropping Adrien ‘The Problem’ Broner (35-5-1, 24 KOs) in the second round, knocking out one of his teeth, cruising to a ten round unanimous decision at the Seminole Hard Rock in…