Новости за 12.05.2019

The king of the flyweights is taking his eleven year undefeated streak to the legendary confines of Korakuen Hall, Monday night in Tokyo. Moruti Mthalane (37-2, 25 knockouts) will defend his IBF title against mandatory challenger Masayuki Kuroda (30-7-3, 16 KOs). For Mthalane, it will be his second straight fight against a Japanese fighter but […]

Keith Thurman called out Manny Pacquiao following his WBA welterweight title defense against Josesito Lopez in January. The showdown is expected to land at MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas. It turns out that Pacquiao, who had defeated Adrien Broner a week prior to that, heard “One Time” loud and clear. Saturday night, Fox announced […]

It all came full circle when the words boomed from the announcer’s microphone: “Your winner, blue corner, New Jersey franchise.” Anthony Johns had fallen short in last year’s quarterfinals, but won the 2019 National Golden Gloves 108-pound title on Saturday, outpointing Ezekiel Ferguson of Colorado/New Mexico in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Twenty-one years prior, in 1998, Johns’ […]

TUCSON – They were rematches without any reversals. It was more of the same for Miguel Berchelt and Emanuel Navarrete. Each won again, Berchelt in a sixth-round stoppage of Francisco Vargas in defense of the WBC’s 130-pound title and Navarrete in a 12th-round stoppage of Isaac Dogboe in defense of the WBO’s 122-pound title Saturday […]

FAIRFAX, Va. — This was something that looked like it belonged on grainy celluloid, coming from a hand-held Aeroscope camera. That’s how viciously Julian “J-Rock” Williams and Jarrett Hurd went at each other. It was if they were transported in a time machine to produce a 1920s classic. Afterward, both Williams and “Swift” looked like they’d […]

FAIRFAX, VA — Stephen Fulton Jr. never wore a championship belt before. He’s certainly seen a few in over 13 years of boxing. The IBO super bantamweight belt just looked natural around his waist for some reason Saturday night in the one of green-walled warrens of EagleBank Arena on the George Mason University campus. In the […]

You could find him anywhere from a club boxing show in Philadelphia, to a high school gym in Butte, Montana, if he could get there. Where there was a fight, there was Harold Lederman. HBO’s endearing “unofficial ringside scorer” for over 30 years died Saturday morning at the age of 79 after a long, courageous […]