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SHOWTIME Sports will offer three separate boxing presentations on Saturday, delivering two digital live streams preceding the evening’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING televised doubleheader. The digital-only offerings will be available on Facebook Live and YouTube prior to the live SHOWTIME telecast at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. Continue reading “Showtime to stream Frampton, Big Baby fights”

Tickets went on sale yesterday, but Ticketmaster is still showing plenty of tickets left for the August 26 PPV showdown between Floyd “Money” Mayweather and MMA star “The Notorious” Conor McGregor at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Available seats range in price from $505 to $7,505. You must register to get a code allowing you to purchase tickets.

The Showtime PPV price for the event has reportedly been set. The telecast will set you back $89.95 for regular definition and $99.95 for HD. In addition to PPV, the bout can be seen via closed circuit at eight venues in Las Vegas and in cinemas across the country. Pricing is TBA.

Unbeaten former IBF 154-pound world champion Jermall Charlo and WBC #1 rated Jorge Sebastian Heiland meet in a WBC middleweight title eliminator that serves as the co-feature on Saturday night’s big SHOWTIME card in Brooklyn featuring Adrien Broner against Mikey Garcia. The winner between Charlo and Heiland will be the mandatory challenger for the GGG-Canelo winner.

Jermall Charlo: As I debut in New York, I’m ready to steal the show and put on a great show. I know he came here all the way from his hometown to shut my career down and everything that I’ve worked hard with, so I’m prepared for everything he has to offer.

Jorge Sebastian Heiland: I know Charlo is a great fighter. But I don’t feel like the underdog because I have confidence in my job. I have my experience and I train. I have great training camp back home. And as I said before, I came here prepared for a battle and I am on a course to be the winner. So if you guys consider me the underdog, I really don’t care.

The popular series Boxeo Telemundo Ford will conclude their summer season this Friday, July 28 at the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida the new home of All Star Boxing in the city.

In the main event a classic battle between Mexico and Puerto Rico when two-time world title challenger David “El Severo” Carmona takes on undefeated prospect Jose “Chiquiro” Martinez in a bout scheduled for 10 rounds with the vacant NABO super flyweight title at stake. Carmona, 26, comes from Mexico City, Mexico is currently ranked #11 WBA, #15 WBO and WBC, his last fight he lost a hard fought decision to former world champion Carlos Cuadras and has a record of 20-4-5, 8 KOs. Martinez, 24, hails from Las Marias, Puerto Rico ranked #12 WBO and holds an undefeated record of 19-0-1, 12 KOs. Continue reading “Carmona-Martinez clash Friday on Telemundo”

Team Sauerland has signed British cruiserweight prospect Mikael Lawal to a long-term promotional contract. Lawal is 2-0 with back-to-back first-round stoppages since joining the paid ranks in April. He is the first fighter to turn professional from London’s Stonebridge Boxing Club, which receives financial support from Team Sauerland.

Upset specialist Nathaniel Gallimore (18-1-1, 15 KOs) will face Justin DeLoach (17-1, 9 KOs) this Sunday. The fight was confirmed by his manager Andrew Zak CEO Journeyman Management and Alex Vaysfeld of Union Boxing Management. The bout will be fought at a catchweight of 156 pounds and is scheduled for 10 rounds. Continue reading “Gallimore-DeLoach Sunday on FS1”

By Marco Bratusch at ringside

Heavily against all the odds, question-mark Russian fighter Viktor Poyakov (13-1-1, 6 KOs) pulled out the upset in Rome beating the fan-favorite and former WBA world regular titlist Giovanni De Carolis (24-8-1, 12 KOs). The bout topped a Zoundzero promoted card at Centrale del Tennis Stadium in Rome, Italy, before a good crowd in attendance of barely 3,000 fans.

It was practically a one-sided affair, with the shorter 35-year-old Polyakov showing quicker hands and a wider skill set than the local and more experienced boxer. Continue reading “Polyakov stuns ex-champ De Carolis”

In a battle of steel chinned journeymen, Belen New Mexico’s Gene Perez ruined the homecoming party for Roswell’s John “Smiley” Herrera, winning a unanimous decision over six rounds on Saturday night (July 22nd) by scores of 60-53, 58-55, 57-56. Herrera was dropped in the opening round. With the win, Perez improves to 2-9-1, 0 KOs. Herrera drops to 4-18-2, 2 KOs.

The co-main event featuring undefeated Isidro Castillo Jr. was canceled at the last minute. Continue reading “Late Results from Roswell, NM”

Hall of Fame referee Steve Smoger and International judge Steve Weisfeld, arguably the top two worldwide in their respective positions, are both working this Wednesday (July 26) championship final of the seventh annual Wray and Nephew Rum Contender Boxing Series, outdoors on the grounds of The Mico University College in Kingston, Jamaica.

Former Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and Jamaican welterweight champion Sakina Mullings (22-3, 14 KOs) takes on Phil “The Assassin” Rose (9-4-1, 5 KOs) in the 10-round championship final. Continue reading “Mullings-Rose clash in Jamaica tourney final”

By Gabriel F. Cordero

Former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr said on social media that there’s a possibility of him returning in 2017 against former world title challenger Martin Murray in October at super middleweight. Murray responded and said he wants the fight. Las Vegas and Texas were floated as possible locations.

Junior is coming off a disappointing catch-weight loss to archrival Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 6 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After that bout, Chavez stated he was weight-drained and had no energy.

The first domestic showdown of the World Boxing Super Series is scheduled for October 14th when top-seeded super middleweight George Groves (26-3, 19 KOs) puts his WBA world title on the line against his undefeated countryman Jamie Cox (23-0, 13 KOs) in a ‘Battle of Britain’ at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London, United Kingdom.

There could be more ‘Battle of Britains’ on the horizon as 50% of the fighters selected for the WBSS eight-man 168lb division are British. The other two Brits are Callum Smith and Chris Eubank Jr. and both are betting favorites to advance past their quarter-final matchups as well.

In the most interesting fight of the week, boxing stars Adrien Broner (33-2, 24 KOs) and Mikey Garcia (36-0, 30 KOs) collide Saturday night in a 12-round non-title junior welterweight fight on SHOWTIME from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. During a conference call in the lead up to the fight, “AB” took a page out of the Mayweather-McGregor promotional playbook and hurled f-bombs left and right.

Continue reading “Broner vows to f**k up Garcia”

Former IBF bantamweight champion Paul Butler has signed a promotional deal with Matchroom Boxing and will face bitter rival Stuart Hall in an eliminator for the WBA world bantamweight title at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on September 30, live on Sky Sports. Butler took the IBF crown from Hall via split decision in May 2014 in Newcastle and now Hall gets the chance to gain revenge in the Ellesmere Port man’s backyard – with a route to the WBA belt that’s in the hands of Jamie McDonnell, who is set for his own rematch with Liborio Solis. Continue reading “Butler joins Matchroom and rematches Hall”

By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

WBA light-flyweight champ Ryoichi Taguchi (26-2-2, 12 KOs), 108, impressively kept his belt when he positively kept battering mandatory challenger Robert Barrera (18-2, 12 KOs), 108, Colombia, from the outset and finally halted him with the referee’s intervention at 0:24 of the ninth round on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan.

Taguchi, making his sixth defense, had the upper hand over the switch-hitting challenger, who occasionally retaliated with light but fast combinations. Taguchi, however, remained more aggressive, pinning Barrera to the ropes with persistent body attacks that apparently weakened the fading Colombian. Continue reading “Full Report: Taguchi-Barrera”

By Marco Bratusch

At today’s EBU bid that bestowed the right for staging the next, vacant European jr middleweight title between co-challengers Orlando Fiordigiglio (27-1, 12 KOs) and Zakaria Attou (25-6-2, 7 KOs), French boxing promotion Europrom of Gerard Teysseron outbid Italian Boxe Loreni offering the handsome sum of 65,001 Euros against 44,080 Euros, to be split 50/50 between the contenders. The belt became vacant at the beginning of June, when former champion Cedric Vitu – the only winner against Italian Fiordigiglio in 2015 when he won the vacant belt – decided to unfasten it from his waist after becoming the new IBF mandatory challenger. Attou, aged 35 compared with Fiordigilio’s 33, is the former European Union (EU) titlist, a belt he earned in his rematch against Emanuel Della Rosa last September and that he defended once. Europrom will release date and venue of the aforementioned bout in the following weeks. Continue reading “Today’s EBU bids and updates”

By Joe Koizumi
Photos: Naoki Fukuda

Japanese prospect, ex-OPBF titlist Hiroto Kyoguchi (8-0, 6 KOs), 105, captured the IBF mini flyweight belt as he dropped defending champ Jose Argumedo (20-4-1, 12 KOs), 105, in the ninth round to pound out a unanimous decision over twelve rounds on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan. Mike Fitzgerald (US) and Carlos Colon (Puerto Rico) both tallied 116-111, and Masahiro Noda (Japan) saw it 115-112, all in favor of the 23-year-old challenger. The referee was Malik Waleed (US).

Continue reading “Kyoguchi makes history with world title win”

By Robert Coster

The Dominican Republic’s newest boxing idol is Carlos Adames, a 23-year-old unbeaten welterweight (11-0, 10 KOs) ranked 6th by the WBA. On Wednesday in Santo Domingo, Adames will be facing the biggest challenge of his young career. He will be defending his WBA Fedelatin title against former IBF super welterweight world champion Carlos Molina (28-6-2, 8 KOs) of Mexico. Molina is unbeaten in the past three years since losing his IBF crown and is now ranked WBC #7 and IBF #13 as a welterweight.

Flanked by his promoter/manager Jorge Luis Herasme, Carlos Adames commented, “I know it’s a giant step going against a former world champion and not a has-been but someone on the top of his game like Carlos Molina. I have seen video of his last fight and he’s one heck of a boxer. But I also know that I’m ready. Beating Molina will send a message to everybody in the welterweight division: Carlos Adames is for real and ready to fight the best!” Continue reading “Unbeaten Adames aims to send a message”

By Marco Bratusch

Last Friday night at the Pabellòn de Basket of Castellbisbal, Cataluña, Spain, local featherweight Marc Vidal (10-1-4, 4 KOs) won the vacant European title outpointing his countryman Sergio “Maestrito” Blanco (23-4-1, 6 KOs) via split decision after twelve rounds. Scores were 116-111, 114-113 for Vidal, and 114-113 for Blanco. It was a historical night for Spanish boxing as the bout represented the first time ever that two Catalunian fighters squared off for the European title, a crown that was relinquished in June by former title holder Dennis Ceylan. The card was promoted by Ricardo Sanchez Atocha’s Rimer Box. Continue reading “Vidal drops, decisions Blanco for Euro 126lb belt”

By Marco Bratusch

Former WBA super middleweight title holder Giovanni De Carolis (24-7-1, 12 KOs) will finally have his comeback fight tomorrow night in Rome, taking on Russian Viktor Polyakov (12-1-1, 6 KOs) for the vacant WBA International belt. The bout represents the first fight in De Carolis’ hometown after more than two years, a period that the boxer filled fighting abroad German boxers as Vincent Feigenbutz and Tyron Zeuge, twice respectively. In his last outing, De Carolis left the belt in the hands of Zeuge, current holder of the WBA “regular” title, who won by TKO in round 12.

“That loss is still hurting me. I was not in my best condition. I felt strong physically but my mind was somewhere else due to some personal issues I was experiencing during the last couple of weeks,” De Carolis told Fightnews.com®. “By the way, I do not want to take anything away from my opponent who fought a solid performance, but I could have done way better than that. Fighting in Rome again is a dream for me, and we are working hard to obtain another world title shot soon, this time possibly in my city, of course.” Continue reading “Ex-champ De Carolis ready for return”

By Ron Jackson
Photos: Nick Lourens

South Africa’s DeeJay Kriel produced a mature performance to win the vacant WBC International minimumweight title when he scored a 12 round unanimous points decision over Dexter Alimento from the Philippines at the Emperors Casino near Kempton Park on Sunday afternoon. Judge Sylvia Mokaila scored it 117-111 and judges Joe Chaane and Ishmael Koali both handed in cards of 116-112.

The southpaw Alimento (47.40kg) made a fast start as he attacked to the body through the first two rounds but Kriel (47. 15kg) who was having his first title fight and 12 rounder calmly backed off holding his gloves high to absorb anything thrown at him through the next few rounds before he started picking off the Filipino to take the middle rounds. Continue reading “DeeJay wins WBC International title”

By Przemek Garczarczyk

“I was just 25 years old when I became a world champion. Recently, I looked at my first belt, lying somewhere in a utility room … and I liked the feeling. It brought back great memories,” said former IBF/WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Włodarczyk (53-3, 37 KOs). “Diablo” just started his training camp in Warszawa (Poland) before his first World Boxing Super Series fight against current IBF champ, undefeated Murat Gassiev (24-0, 17 KO).

“I have nothing to lose. I will do everything what I can, everything, to not disappoint myself. Whatever happens in the end, it’s God’s will anyway” stated Włodarczyk. The Gassiev-Włodarczyk World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight quarterfinal bout is expected to happen in October at a venue on the US East Coast.

By Joe Koizumi

Japanese prospect, ex-OPBF titlist Hiroto Kyoguchi (8-0, 6 KOs), 105, captured the IBF mini flyweight belt as he dropped defending world champ Jose Argumedo (20-4-1, 12 KOs), 104, Mexico, in the ninth round to earn a unanimous decision over twelve rounds on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan.

Mike Fitzgerald (US) and Carlos Colon (Puerto Rico) both tallied 116-111, and Masahiro Noda (Japan) saw it 115-112, all in favor of the 23-year-old chalenger. The referee was Malik Waleed (US). It wasn’t a technically excellent fight at all as they kept missing the target each other, slipped down many times and repeated clinches time and again. Continue reading “Kyoguchi beats Argumedo; wins title in only 8th fight”

By Joe Koizumi

WBA light-flyweight champ Ryoichi Taguchi (26-2-2, 12 KOs), 108, impressively kept his belt when he positively kept battering mandatory challenger Robert Barrera (18—2, 12 KOs), 108, Colombia, from the outset and finally halted him with the referee’s intervention at 0:24 of the ninth round on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan. Taguchi, making his sixth defense, had the upper hand over the switch-hitting challenger, who occasionally retaliated with light but fast combinations.

Taguchi, however, remained more aggressive, pinning Barrera to the ropes with persistent body attacks that apparently weakened the fading Colombian. Taguchi, in round seven, turned loose to hurt Barrera with furious combinations but the game challenger refused to go down by showing his heart. Having overwhelmed and overpowered Barrera with his accelerated attacks, Taguchi had him in great trouble in the eighth. The referee Russell Mora, US, gave a strong warning to Barrera for his repeated holding to avert the champ’s hot rallies in the closing seconds of the eighth session. As Taguchi went for a kill in round nine, the third man finally called a halt to stop the one-sided proceedings even without a knockdown.

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By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

Japanese super-flyweight champ Ryuichi Funai (28-7, 19 KOs), 115, kept his national belt by a unanimous technical decision (68-65 twice, 67-66) over mandatory challenger Takayuki Okumoto (18-8-3, 8 KOs), 114.75, from Osaka, because of the champ’s bad bleeding at 1:32 of the seventh round in a scheduled ten on the undercard of a world title twinbill on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan.

Funai made his initial defense since dethroning Kenta Nakagawa via seventh round TKO this March, but it wasn’t so easy as he began bleeding profusely from the early stage of the bout. Funai had the southpaw challenger at bay with a flurry of punches in the seventh, when the ref Asao finally decided to take a technical decision after having his gash examined by the ring physician several times.

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By Joe Koizumi
Photos by Naoki Fukuda

Former WBA super-fly champ Kohei Kono (33-10-1, 14 KOs), 117, made a fine comeback as he dropped Thailand’s Rambo Korat Sports School (13-10-1, 3 KOs), 115.5, twice en route to a well-received stoppage at 1:35 of the fifth round in a scheduled eight beneath a world title doubleheader on Sunday in Tokyo, Japan.

Having been demolished by unbeaten WBO titleholder Naoya “Monster” Inoue in six lopsided rounds last December, Kono had been considering whether to go on or not, but returned to ring warfare to show his usual non-stop punching in halting the Thailander with his trademark combinations upstairs and downstairs. It is said Kono will meet WBO top ranked Rex Tso in Hong Kong in October.

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