San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – Erislandy Lara won a lopsided unanimous decision over Ishe Smith on Friday to keep his WBA junior middleweight title. Lara (20-2-2) bullied the challenger throughout the fight and only lost one round on two judges’ […]
Canastota, NY (SportsNetwork.com) – Former undisputed heavyweight champion Riddick Bowe and ex-WBA lightweight champ Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini were among eight men elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame on Thursday. Also among the 2015 class of inductees are […]
Macau, China (SportsNetwork.com) – Manny Pacquiao knocked down previously unbeaten Chris Algieri six times en route to a unanimous decision in a WBO welterweight title fight on Sunday in China. Pacquiao dominated from the outset and won by scores of […]
Macau, China (SportsNetwork.com) – Manny Pacquiao knocked down previously unbeaten Chris Algieri six times en route to a unanimous decision in a WBO welterweight title fight on Sunday in China. Pacquiao dominated from the outset and won by scores of […]
Kanagawa, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) – Takashi Miura of Japan beat Mexican challenger Edgar Puerta with a TKO in the sixth to retain his WBC super featherweight title. Miura improved to 28-2-2 with 21 KOs and Puerta fell to 23-5-1 with 19 […]
Kanagawa, Japan (SportsNetwork.com) – Roman Gonzalez of Nicaragua beat Rocky Fuentes of the Philippines with a TKO in the sixth to retain his WBC flyweight title. Gonzalez (41-0, 35 KOs) dropped Fuentes (35-7-2, 20 KOs) to the canvas with a […]
Hamburg, Germany (SportsNetwork.com) – Wladimir Klitschko easily kept his IBF heavyweight title with a fifth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday at Hamburg’s O2 World arena. Klitschko’s devastating left hook dropped Pulev with under a minute to go in the […]
Cape Coral, FL (SportsNetwork.com) – I’m not actually sure how to describe it. Maybe I’m selfish. Maybe I don’t like old people. Or maybe I’m biased against aliens. But regardless of how it’s minced, parsed and dissected, one thing remains […]
Atlantic City, NJ (SportsNetwork.com) – Sergey Kovalev dominated 49-year-old Bernard Hopkins and won a 12-round unanimous decision to unify the world light heavyweight titles. Kovalev (26-0-1, 23 KOs), who came into the bout as the WBO champion, floored Hopkins with […]
Bangkok, Thailand (SportsNetwork.com) – Wanheng Menayothin of Thailand outslugged Mexico’s Oswaldo Novoa on Thursday to capture the WBC minimumweight title. Menayothin improved to 36-0 with 11 knockouts when Novoa failed to come out after the ninth round. Novoa fell to […]