Ukraine’s fighting spirit carried Saturday in boxing, as lightweight Denys Berinchyk joined his heavyweight countryman Oleksandr Usyk with a heartfelt split decision title victory. Berinchyk’s win came over Mexico’s three-division titleholder Emanuel Navarrete, who showed up bloated and lacking, delivering an uninspiring performance against the more aggressive foe. Berinchyk won the vacant WBO…
After losing his unified crown nearly four years ago, Vasiliy “Loma” Lomachenko is once again a world champion. Lomachenko (18-3, 12 KOs) captured the vacant IBF lightweight world title by defeating hometown hero “Ferocious” George Kambosos Jr. (21-3, 10 KOs) via 11th-round TKO on Sunday afternoon at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia. Though…
Naoya “Monster” Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs) scored a sixth-round TKO over former two-division world champion Luis Nery (35-2, 27 KOs) in front a packed house Monday evening to defend his undisputed junior featherweight championship.
Dozens of prominent boxing figures, celebrities from the music and sporting industry, and politicians paid a fitting farewell to departed champion boxer Dingaan “The Rose of Soweto” at a memorial service in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Pound-for-pound great Canelo Álvarez turned in a vintage performance by dropping the previously unbeaten Jaime Munguia Saturday night on his way to earning a unanimous decision in the main event of a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
It was over before it really began in Saudi Arabia as Anthony Joshua pummeled his way past Francis Ngannou with a devastating knockout blow in the second round.
Joseph Parker picked himself off the canvas twice to defeat Zhilei Zhang by majority decision in Saudi Arabia.
In what was a torturous watch, Teofimo Lopez successfully defended his WBO super lightweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision win over Jamaine Ortiz at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday.
Ugandan middleweight professional boxer Muhammed Sebyala, alias Meddie Kabona, knocked out South Sudanese opponent Ahmed Majid in the third round of the 10-round Global Boxing Federation title bout at Club Obligatto in Kampala. Similarly, Midi Daku defeated fellow Ugandan Nicolas Bilibamba to claim a national super lightweight title among other bouts. We have the highlights.…
Unified light heavyweight king Artur Beterbiev (20-0, 20 KOs) defended his WBC/IBF/WBO world titles with a seventh-round TKO win against former world champion Callum Smith (29-2, 16 KOs) Saturday evening at Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada.