Chris Eubank Jr. earned a career-defining victory with a hard-fought unanimous decision over British rival and former two-time world champion James DeGale in a super middleweight grudge match Saturday on SHOWTIME from The O2 in London.
Anthony Dirrell (33-1-1, 24 KOs) defeated Avni Yildirim (21-2, 12 KOs)by technical split decision (96-94 X 2 for Dirrell, 98-92 for Yildirim) for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight World Championship in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on FS1 and FOX Deportes from the Armory in Minneapolis.
Ghana’s Isaac Dogboe (20-1) will have a shot at revenge against Emmanuel Navarrete (26-1) this spring.
London – Freddy ‘Pretty Boy’ Kiwitt, the Liberian–born German boxer has been crowned the World Boxing Organization’s European Welterweight champion following his majority decision Friday night against the Irish boxer Paddy Gallagher at the York Hall Bethnal Green in London.
Emmanuel “Gameboy” Tagoe easily outpointed Vyacheslav Gusev over 12 rounds at Accra’s Bukom Boxing Arena, then proceeded to call out WBA and WBO lightweight world champ, Vasily Lomachenko.