Celebrated boxing trainer Ismael Salas believes devising a gameplan to defeat eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao this weekend will be one of the toughest tests of his coaching career. On Saturday night in Las Vegas, Salas will be in the corner of WBA Super welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas, who stepped in at late notice to face […]
One of Britain’s most entertaining fighters Sam Eggington returns to action on September 10. The West Midlands middleweight makes the first defence of his WBC Silver middleweight title against unbeaten Frenchman Bilel Jkitou at the Skydome, Coventry and will be broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK. Eggington, who sits at 15 in the WBC […]
The highly anticipated super-bantamweight unified clash between Stephen Fulton Jr and Brandon Figueroa has a date and a venue. It had been thought September 11 would be pencilled in for the fight but instead proceedings will be put back one week. September 18 and the Park Theatre, MGM Grand in Las Vegas can now be […]
The first defence of Joe Smith Jr’s WBO light-heavyweight title is set to go ahead later this year. ESPN have reported that contracts have been signed for the New Yorker to defend his belt against Russia’s Umar Salamov. The Top Rank event is expected to take place in October or November with the Madison Square […]
After three bouts, Joshua Franco finally settled the argument, clearly outscoring Australian Andrew Moloney to win their trilogy and retain his WBA Regular super-flyweight belt at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night. Scores were 116-112 on all three cards for the San Antonio box-fighter. In a three-fight series over the […]
WBO bantamweight king John Riel Casimero was left frustrated but ultimately victorious as he failed to stop an elusive Guillermo Rigondeaux before retaining his crown on the cards at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California, on Saturday. In a bout that never caught light, the more aggressive Casimero won by scores of 117-111 and […]
The streak continues. Texan KO artist Vergil Ortiz maintained his perfect record of 18 stoppages in as many fights by halting the ‘Mean Machine’ Egidijus Kavaliauskas in eight rounds at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas, on Saturday evening. 147-pounder Ortiz was repeatedly buzzed by heavy shots in a torrid second round but eventually scored five […]
In his toughest test to date, rising light-heavyweight star Joshua Buatsi gradually broke down a granite-like Ricards Bolotniks to score a stirring 11th round stoppage at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in Brentwood on Saturday. Golden Contract winner Bolotniks (18-6-1, 5 KOs) was implausibly tough, soaking up Buatsi’s best shots and surviving a knockdown and torrid assault in […]
After a largely pedestrian undercard, Cardiff talent Joe Cordina brought welcome dazzle with a razor-sharp, first-round blowout of Chicago’s Joshuah Hernandez in the chief support to Buatsi-Bolotniks at Matchroom’s final Fight Camp in Brentwood on Saturday night. The outgunned American was dismissed in just 53 seconds as a rejuvenated Cordina, fully recovered after right hand […]
A long-awaited deal for an undisputed super-middleweight title fight between WBC, WBA Super and WBO king Canelo Alvarez and IBF title holder Caleb Plant is nearing fruition for November. The duo have been locked in negotiations for some time, but the fight seemed dead in the water when a planned September 18 date fell through […]
It’s not an apparition. ‘The Ghost’ Robert Guerrero will return from a near two-year hiatus when he meets fellow veteran Victor Ortiz in an all-southpaw battle on the Manny Pacquiao vs Yordenis Ugas undercard in Las Vegas next Saturday (August 21), and the two-division world champion is predicting an exciting “dogfight”. The 38-year-old Guerrero (36-6-1, […]
Boxing is littered with instances where one punch can revive a fighter’s fortunes and send their career on an upward trajectory. Watford puncher Reece Bellotti (14-4, 12 KOs) feels he could be in that position tonight when he meets highly-rated American prospect Raymond Ford at Matchroom’s Fight Camp in Brentwood. Broadcast live on ‘Before The […]