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Venezuelan puncher Johán “Manotas” Gonzalez defeated his compatriot Luis Enrique Romero in the fifth round and won the World Boxing Association (WBA) Fedelatin welterweight belt in the main fight of the V “Gilberto Mendoza Sr.” Festival, which was successfully held in two day-events at the Yesterday Recreational Center in Turmero, Aragua State, Venezuela.

The event was held on Friday 5th and Saturday 6th with an emotional tribute to the President Emeritus of the WBA, who led the pioneer boxing organization for 33 years and who passed away five years ago on March 11th. Continue reading “Gonzalez stops Romero in five”

This past Saturday night, Shinard Bunch won a tough eight-round unanimous decision over veteran Cameron Krael in the featured bout of a five-bout card at The Sportsplex in Feasterville, PA. It was a rugged battle as Krael was able to get a lot of things done by boxing, and working behind a nice long jab from the outside. Continue reading “Full Results from Feasterville, PA”

WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. (31-1, 18 KOs) will next defend his crown against the mandatory challenger of the division Rey Vargas (34-0, 22 KOs).

Russell comes from defeating Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar in February last year. Vargas, the former WBC super bantamweight champion, was named champion in recess due to a leg injury. Fully recovered, he was ratified as the mandatory challenger for the featherweight division.

Promoter Tom Brown, head of TGB Promotions, will announce the date and place for this bout shortly.

Triller Fight Club today announced that Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, will be the home for TFC’s inaugural event of 2021, the April 17 boxing Pay-Per-View card headlined by Jake Paul against Ben Askren. This will be the first-ever fighting event at the venue, which was the home of Super Bowl LIII.

The undercard of the four-hour show will be announced shortly. Some rumors include Antonio Tarver vs. Frank Mir and Regis Prograis vs. Ivan Redkach. We’ll see.

Triller Fight Club is a partnership between Triller and Snoop Dogg and is spearheaded by Ryan Kavanaugh.

No numbers yet for last Friday’s “Superwomen: Shields vs. Dicaire” all-female pay-per-view event. “Final numbers are still coming in,” stated a press release from Shields’ promoter Dmitriy Salita and Shields’ manager Mark Taffet, the organizers of the event. They add that PPV buys are “reassuring” and have “already surpassed all projected sales expectations.” What the actual projections were was undisclosed.

The event was a sellout with the maximum allowable 375 seats grabbed up at the Dort Financial Center in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Michigan. Continue reading “Shields-Dicaire Update”

By Joe Koizumi

Unbeaten WBC light-flyweight champ Kenshiro Teraji (17-0, 10 KOs), a Japanese speedster, will defend his belt against #1 ranked compatriot Tetsuya Hisada (34-10-2, 20 KOs) in Osaka, Japan, on April 24. It was publicly announced by Shinsei Promotions under the WBC’s sanction today (Monday).

Originally slated on December 19, Teraji’s personal scandal forced the title bout to be cancelled inevitably. Teraji, then heavily drunk, entered another person’s garage without permission, battered and hurt a car therein last July. Although the scandal was already settled out of court between Teraji and the owner of the damaged vehicle, the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) severely suspended Teraji for three months from December 1 to February 28 and also fined 3,000,000 Yen (some $28,570 with the currency rate of 105 Yen for USD). Continue reading “WBC 108lb champ Teraji to face #1 Hisada”

Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada will collide again on Saturday in Dallas, nine years after they first fought in 2012 in the light flyweight division. Gonzalez won that one by unanimous decision. Entering this rematch, “Chocolatito” (50-2, 41 KOs) is the WBA super flyweight champion while “El Gallo” (41-3, 28 KOs) is the WBC champion. The fight will take place at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, and be televised on DAZN.

Who is going to win this time? Sportsbooks list Estrada as a -175 favorite, with Gonzalez backers getting +155. Estrada opened at -200, so the odds are tightening as the bout approaches. Estrada is 30, while Chocolatito is 33.

By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing

IBF #1 lightweight George “Ferocious” Kambosos (19-0, 10 KOs) talks to Fightnews.com® about challenging IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA champion Teofimo Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs) promoted by Triller Fight Club (Snoop Dog and Ryan Kavanaugh). Site and venue are still to be announced, but Kambosos has an inkling of when and where it will land.

Congratulations on a great winning IBF purse bid of over $6 million from Triller Fight Club for Teofimo Lopez versus George Kambosos. Did you have any idea Triller would be bidding?

I did hear there was some interest from Triller but I didn’t know they were going to come in and outbid everyone. The fight game is changing. Especially in America. Triller did the Mike Tyson versus Roy Jones exhibition, but this is the first proper boxing championship. This is history for Triller as well. What a fight to promote with all the belts on the line! Continue reading “Interview: George Kambosos”

Photos: The Louis Collection

Florida boxing promoter Henry Rivalta (Rivalta Boxing) continued his new boxing series Saturday night at the InterContinental Miami, in Miami, Florida. The elegant event was sold out just like the inaugural show this past December 4th. Those in attendance enjoyed a very entertaining night of fights with all proper Covid-19 protocols in place.

Miami-born cruiserweight Anthony Martinez (9-1, 8 KOs) won his first professional title in the 10 round main event. Martinez impressively stopped the more experienced Evert Bravo (26-14-1, 20 KOs) of Colombia by way of third round TKO, to claim the vacant WBO Latino cruiserweight title. Continue reading “Miami Black Tie Boxing results”

By TMZ.com

“I’ll knock [Canelo] out! I’ll stop him! It takes a lot of balls to say that but the reason why I’m saying that is because I really fully, truly believe I’m the one that can beat and stop Canelo.”

That’s 24-year-old rising boxing star David Benavidez verbally taking on the #1 pound-for-pound boxer in the world, megastar Canelo Alvarez. TMZ Sports talked to Benavidez — who’s taking on Ronald Ellis on March 13 on Showtime — about his boxing hit list … and DB’s going big game hunting.

“The dream scenario is fight with [Jermall] Charlo right after and then Caleb Plant and then Canelo. That’s the dream scenario but the reality of making that happen, is very hard.” Continue reading “Benavidez: I can beat and stop Canelo”

Former WBO heavyweight champion and current contender Joseph Parker and long-time trainer Kevin Barry have reportedly split. Parker and Barry had been together since 2013, but after Parker’s lackluster win over Junior Fa last month, they both agreed to go their separate ways. Barry is headquartered in Las Vegas, while Parker lives in New Zealand.

In a scheduled nine round main event, super lightweight Andres Ramon Tejada (9-1-2, 2 KOs) knocked out countryman Jorge Abel Bermudez (7-2, 3 KOs) in round three to win the vacant WBA Fedbol title on Saturday night at the Complejo Termal Vertiente de la Concordia, Concordia, Entre Rios, Argentina.

Tejada was down in round one but came back in round two. Tejada surprised Bermudez in round three with a standard 1-2 combination that sent Bermudez crashing to the canvas. He beat the count but immediately fell face first into the ropes by himself. He appeared out on his feet and without balance. The referee correctly waved the fight off immediately. Continue reading “Tejada TKOs Bermudez in Argentina”

Rising junior welterweight prospect Shinard Bunch (14-1, 12 KOs) took a hard-fought eight round unanimous decision over tough veteran Cameron Krael (17-18-3, 4 KOs) on Saturday night at The Sportsplex in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. Scores were 79-73, 78-74 and 77-75 for Bunch.

More to come…