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On Saturday, November 9th, WBC and Ring Magazine super flyweight champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) will defend his title against WBC interim super flyweight champion  Pedro Guevara (42-4-1, 22 KOs) at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Credit: Matchroom Boxing) The match…

Floyd Schofield Sr. wants WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson to defend his title against his son, ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield Jr (18-0, 12 KOs) next. He says Shakur doesn’t have an opponent yet, and he feels he should face his son, who is ranked #2 WBC…

Undefeated middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz will be getting a world title shot on February 22nd against one of the three champions in the 160-lb division in Riyadh. Queensberry promoter Frank Warren reportedly told Michael Benson that Sheeraz (21-0, 17 KOs) will fight for a world…

Trainer Robert Garcia doubts that Terence Crawford will ever fight again if he doesn’t get the Canelo Alvarez fight he wants. Robert says the former two-division undisputed champion Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs) doesn’t have “anything to prove” to anybody after the career he’s had. Canelo…

Shakur Stevenson says he’ll be “better than ever” when he returns to the ring in February to defend his WBC lightweight title against William Zepeda. The New Jersey native Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) has much to prove because he’s not looked like the same fighter…

Promoter Eddie Hearn believes Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez is a future “pound-for-pound #1” as he heads into his fight this Saturday, November 9th, against Pedro Guevara. With all the praise that Matchroom Boxing promoter Hearn is giving ‘Bam,’ he has a lot of pressure on him.…