Giovani Santillan (22-0, 12 KOs), the No. 7 rated welterweight by the WBO, weighed in at 146.9 lbs., while Ghana’s Dodzi Kemeh (19-1, 17 KOs) weighed 145.7 lbs. during Thursday’s weigh in. Santillan defends his NABO championship for the first time via the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, Calif. (10-rounds). Check out the weigh-in below: …
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX — Top Rank on ESPN will kick off its 2018 season with a sensational Super Bowl weekend world championship event. GILBERTO “Zurdo” RAMÍREZ , Mexico’s super middleweight champion with the matinee idol looks, defending his world title. Ramírez (36-0, 24 KOs), from Mazatlan, Mexico, will make his third defense of his…
Rafael Garcia, the always-smiling and beloved boxing lifer who worked as a trainer, cutman and hand-wrapper to some of the sport’s biggest names, died on Tuesday due to complications from leukemia. He was 88. Born in Mexico, Garcia worked in boxing for most of his life and spent recent decades living in Las Vegas, where…
New York’s downtown Manhattan turned into a mini-Bukom on Tuesday afternoon at the Overthrow Boxing Club in Greenwich Village. Students from the After-School All-Stars program were treated to boxing lessons from Overthrow trainer Alicia Napoleon as well as fighters from Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal Boxing Promotions. As always, Holyfield was the star of…
Ghana’s Rafael Mensah (31-0, 23 KO’s) will fight for the World Boxing Association (WBA) super featherweight world title. The WBA has ordered champion Albert Machado (19-0, 16 KO’s) from Puerto Rico to defend his belt against Mensah, the No. 2 rated WBA super featherweight. A statement by the WBA reads: In the Super Featherweight…
LAS VEGAS (November 14, 2017) – Former world champion Ishe Smith will look to stake his claim to another world title opportunity when he battles top contender Julian Williams in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on Bounce live from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday, November 18. Smith knows that Williams provides a steep challenge and…
Team UK secured the Kwese Cup with a 3.5 to 1.5 winning margin in a pulsating encounter at Salford’s iconic Victoria Warehouse. It brought elation and despair in equal measure for the combatants who fought in what is understood to be first ever international-level ‘team’ event in professional boxing. A series of brutal exchanges whipped…
The Kenya Defence Forces boxing team is having sleepless nights. The former national boxing champions feel cheated. They feel aggrieved and let down. Although they gave champions Kenya Police a scare during the just-ended league battle, the soldiers have blamed judges at the event for their failure to land the coveted title. Kenya…
The Kenya Police held off stiff challenge from bitter rivals Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to be crowned the new National Boxing League champions. They thus built an unassailable points lead that ultimately landed them the coveted title during the final round. Police and KDF entered the final leg in a neck-to-neck battle, fielding…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has been urged to immortalize the late Commonwealth boxing legend, Jonathan Bamidele, whose remains were buried yesterday, at his Ibadan residence. Bamidele popularly known as Dele Jonathan, died on May 29. He was aged 89 years. Speaking at the funeral service held at Elewura Grammar School, Ibadan, the…