XAVIER RODRIGUEZ AIMS FOR NUMBER ONE
With a record of 17-8, 11-year-old Xavier Rodriguez (pictured left) has multiple amateur and youth boxing championships.
With a record of 17-8, 11-year-old Xavier Rodriguez (pictured left) has multiple amateur and youth boxing championships.
Emperors Palace, Kempton Park, South Africa – In a showdown for the vacant International Boxing Organization (IBO) welterweight title, Thulani Mbenge (14-0, 11 KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career with a seventh round stoppage of feared veteran Diego Chaves (26-4-1, 22 KOs).
Vergil Ortiz Jr. (10-0, 10 KOs), the rising knockout artist and pride of Dallas, Texas, scored a spectacular third-round knockout win against former world champion Juan Carlos Salgado (27-9-1, 16 KOs) in a 10-round super lightweight fight in main event of the June 23 edition of Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN at the Belasco Theater…
If at all going by the name of the next Boxing 5 Tournament one can only presume that it will be a humdinger of an event.
The on, off, on again impending world title fight between Ghana’s Rafael Mensah and Alberto Machado is now tentatively set to take place at the Hard Rock Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 21 alongside the WBO junior middleweight title fight between Jaime Munguia and Liam Smith.
Claressa Shields became a two-division world champion, and Christina Hammer retained her two world title belts as both scored unanimous decision victories on Friday night on SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION from the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Mich.
Malawian boxer Anisha Bashir last week won the Commonwealth Lightweight Championship title after beating Britain’s Samantha Smith in a 10-round fight that took place in the United Kingdom.
One of Namibia’s most promising professional boxers, Vakufilapo “Cowboy” Wilhelm, has sent shockwaves to the local boxing folklore by announcing his retirement from boxing with immediate effect whilst still at the pinnacle of his flourishing boxing career.
The back and forth saga between WBA/IBF/WBO world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is still ongoing.
Every man who fancies himself a man harbours deep-seated fantasies of boxing glory. Testosterone? Validation? Rocky Balboa complex? Who knows—there’s just something about a pair of old-school Everlast gloves that quickens the heart.