Wynn Palace Cotai, Macao – Undefeated Hiroto Kyoguchi (12-0, 9 KOs) became the first man to stop Hekkie Budler (32-4, 10 KOs), as he secured a TKO victory in the eleventh round to capture the WBA (super) junior flyweight world title.
It was a quick payday for Floyd Mayweather to close the 2018 calendar. The 41-year-old boxer earned $9 million to knock out kickboxing star Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition fight on New Year’s Eve in Tokyo meant to be “all about entertainment.”
Ghana’s Robert “Stopper” Quaye, the new Interim World Boxing Organization (WBO) Africa Junior Welterweight champion, has said, the world title, remains his top most priority, as he prepares for a new challenge in 2019.
WBA light-flyweight super champion Hekkie Budler (32-3, 10 KOs) is sick of training. “I just want to fight,” he said ahead of his New Year’s Eve title defense against Japan’s Hiroto Kyoguchi (11-0, 8 KOs) in Macau. The pair meet on the undercard of the vacant WBO world super-flyweight championship between Kazuto Ioka (23-1, 13…
Daniel Christoffel Van Heerden, father of former IBO welterweight champion Chris Van Heerden, was shot dead in South Africa.
Rilwan ‘Real One’ Oladosu picked up a whooping cash prize of N3 million alongside the Mojisola Ogunsanya Memorial trophy after emerging the best boxer at the 17th edition of the GOtv Boxing Night on Friday, December 28.
The sixth installment of the Bukom Fist of Fury Boxing League was held on the 22nd of December 2018 at the Premier Beach Resort, Oshieyie.
Heralded undefeated lightweight contender Devin Haney worked out for the media Thursday at Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas ahead of his ShoBox: The New Generation main-event bout Friday, Jan. 11 at 10 p.m. ET/PT live on SHOWTIME®.
IBF President Daryl Peoples has appointed longtime IBF member Carlos Ortiz Jr. as the organization’s new Championships Committee Chairman.
Undefeated super middleweight contender Caleb “Sweethands” Plant hosted a media workout in Las Vegas Friday as he nears his first world title opportunity when he takes on IBF 168-pound champion Jose Uzcategui in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on FS1 and FOX Deportes Sunday, January 13 from the Microsoft Theatre at L.A. Live…