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By Michael Collins - 03/15/2025 - Comments WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball (22-0-1, 14 KOs) went to war tonight with the gritty TJ Doheny (26-6, 20 KOs)  to win a tenth round knockout in their highly entertaining fight on Saturday night at the M&S Bank Arena in…

Middleweights Austin ‘Ammo’ Williams (17-1, 12 KOs) and Patrice Volny (19-1, 13 KOs) will battle it out tonight in the twelve-round main event on DAZN in Orlando, Florida. This is Ammo’s chance to redeem himself after being knocked out last year. (Credit: Melina Pizano/Matchroom) Berlanga’s…

According to various people within the boxing community who have sent out best wishes messages to Iran Barkley, the 64-year-old is currently in hospital in New York due to suffering a stroke earlier this week. Matchmaker Ron Katz wrote on X how “The Blade” suffered…

WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball (21-0-1, 12 KOs) faces the grizzled old veteran TJ Doheny (26-5, 20 KOs) in the main event tonight in a fight that fans hope will be competitive at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England. The event will be shown…

As fans may well recall, a while back news broke informing us that female star, multi-weight world champion Claressa Shields had tested positive for marijuana. Shields was absolutely resolute from the minute the reports came out that she did not, and does not, take marijuana.…

Shakur Stevenson is still bitter about Vasily Lomachenko not agreeing to fight him after he moved up to the lightweight two years ago in 2023. He feels that the former three-division world champion ducked him, and he’s “disappointed because he looked up to him. Lomachenko…

Promoter Eddie Hearn says Edgar Berlanga may be making the “worst decision” by choosing to leave Matchroom and become a free agent after his contract ends this Saturday, March 15th, with his fight against Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz. (Credit: Melina Pizano/Matchroom) Some fans believe Berlanga thinks he’s…

Turki Alalshikh said today that the results of the fights involving Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez on the May 2nd Fatal Fury card in Times Square in New York will affect potential matchups with these fighters in October on the Riyadh Season cards.…

Things proved pretty eventful at today’s official weigh-in between featherweights Nick Ball and TJ Doheny. Ball, who will defend his WBA featherweight title against former IBF super-bantamweight champ Doheny, made weight fine, the unbeaten warrior from Liverpool coming in at 125.9 pounds. Doheny, however, came…