Cardiff, Wales (Sports Network) – Sergey Kovalev stopped previously unbeaten champion Nathan Cleverly in the fourth round to win the WBO light heavyweight title in a stunning result on Saturday. Kovalev (22-0-1, 20 KO) dominated the fight from the opening […]
Atlantic City, NJ (Sports Network) – The next fight for IBF light heavyweight champion Bernard Hopkins is finally set. The 48-year-old Hopkins will take on No. 1 contender Karo Murat, Oct. 26, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fight […]
Cape Coral, FL (Sports Network) – All the signs of fall are arriving. The kids (at least in my section of Florida) are back in school, the rains (again, in my section of Florida) have ebbed from a constant torrent […]
Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) – Akira Yaegashi and Shinsuke Yamanaka retained their respective WBC titles Monday. Yaegashi (18-3, 9 KOs) kept his flyweight crown with a unanimous decision over Oscar Blanquet. He won by scores of 116-110 on two cards […]
Panama City, Panama (Sports Network) – Anselmo Moreno retained his WBA bantamweight belt with a unanimous decision over William Urina on Saturday. Moreno (34-2-1, 12 KO) recorded his 11th successful title defense with a 116-112, 118-110, 118-110 decision over Urina […]
Cape Coral, FL (Sports Network) – Maybe it’s a Filipino thing, or an IBO thing. Either way, the method in which two recent natives of the Southeast Asian island cluster won jewelry sanctioned by the International Boxing Organization was similar […]
Macao, China (Sports Network) – Juan Francisco Estrada defended his WBO flyweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Milan Melindo. Estrada (25-2) sent Melindo (29-1) to the canvas in the 11th round and hurt Melindo once again […]
Cape Coral, FL (Sports Network) – I couldn’t have been the only one, right? Seriously, as everyone else either tuned in live or caught an online stream of the Saturday fight card from Wembley Arena – and then saw how […]
Canastota, NY (Sports Network) – International Boxing Hall of Famer Emile Griffith, a two-division champion, died due to dementia pugilistica. He was 75. Griffith, who was a welterweight and middleweight champion, passed away early Tuesday morning at the Nassau County […]
Dresden, Germany (Sports Network) – Robert Stieglitz scored a 10th-round technical decision against Yuzo Kiyota Saturday to retain his WBO super middleweight title at the EnergieVerbund Arena. Stieglitz (45-3) dominated Kiyota from the start before the bout went to the […]