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Oscar Collazo (10-0, 7 KOs) of Villalba, Puerto Rico, defended his WBO Minimumweight World Championship Belt for the third time by overwhelming Gerardo Zapata (14-2-1) of Managua, Nicaragua. Collazo got briefly rattled by a right hook in the second round, but managed to regain his…

In an interview with PBC’s ‘Gloves are Offf,’ Gervonta Davis gave his true thoughts on being nervous about Ryan Garcia’s power after speaking with his brother before their fight last year in April. Ryan’s brother warned, and he felt genuinely nervous about what he was…

Xander Zayas and Patrick Teixeira both successfully weighed in on Friday for their ten-round junior middleweight fight this Saturday night, June 8th. Zayas (18-0, 12 KOs) battles Teixeira (34-4, 25 KOs) in a showcase match at Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.…

Next weekend, Frank Martin will stroll into the Las Vegas ring with the odds stacked sky-high against him in his fight against Gervonta Davis. It’s like bringing a knife to a gunfight, yet Errol Spence Jr. is betting on the knife. Both warriors will clash…

By James Slater - 06/07/2024 - Comments The much criticised Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight has not gone away. After the fight was postponed, this due to Tyson’s “medical emergency,” where the former heavyweight king suffered an ulcer flare-up and was advised by medical experts not to…

More bad news for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Just days after his perhaps career-ending KO loss to Zhilei Zhang, 38 year old Wilder’s relationship with his former fiance has certainly come to an end – an ugly end. As was first reported by…

The possible under-card is shaping up, sort of at this early stage, for the planned Wembley date heavyweight star and former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua is set to have in September. A big press conference will take place at the end of the month…

It was a clash of unbeaten heavyweight bangers. Sluggers. Raw, hard punchers. Two men who knew how to inflict hurt, damage……pain. And both guys could take it as well as dish it out. It was on this day back in 1997, when heavyweight juggernauts Ike…

Gervonta “Tank” Davis says he intimidated challenger Frank Martin during the face-off at their press conference ahead of their fight on June 15th. He states that he intimidated Martin (18-0, 12 KOs) and his brother. It’s questionable whether Gervonta, 29, actually believes he actually scared…