Boxing’s biggest superstar Canelo Alvarez put on a dominant show Saturday night to cap the 2020 major fight slate, cruising to a unanimous decision win over previously undefeated champion Callum Smith and winning the WBA, WBC and The Ring magazine super middleweight titles. The scorecards read 119-109, 119-109 and 117-111, all for Alvarez. In…
Ilunga ‘Junior’ Makabu closed out his 2020 campaign in style. The reigning cruiserweight titlist lodged his first successful defense with a 7th round knockout of Nigeria’s Olanrewaju Durodola. A pair of left hands floored Durodola, who was deemed unable to continue in their spirited main event Saturday evening in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.…
Emperors Palace near Kempton Park, South Africa – IBO cruiserweight champion Keven Lerena (26-1, 13 KOs) broke down and stopped Patrick Ferguson (17-3-1, 13 KOs) in five rounds.
Undefeated bantamweight Reymart Gaballo scored a controversial split-decision victory over former world champion Emmanuel Rodriguez in the main event of Saturday night’s SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn., in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. With the victory, Gaballo picked up the vacant interim WBC Bantamweight Title. Saturday’s…
SAN ANTONIO – The much-anticipated rematch between Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Juan Francisco Estrada has a date. Promoter Eddie Hearn announced during DAZN’s stream of the Canelo Alvarez-Callum Smith card at Alamodome that Gonzalez and Estrada will meet for the second time March 13. The venue has not been chosen, but Hearn wants to…