Kosei Tanaka added to his impressive collection of belts and is now a champion at 115lbs having won belts at 105, 108 and 112. The new WBO super flyweight champion won the vacant title with a solid victory over Mexican co-challenger Christian Bacasegua, flooring the Mexican in round eight and earning the decision on all three scorecards by margins of ...
Future Hall of Famer Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, a four-division world champion, has a new weight class. His last fight was in 2022, a majority-decision loss to Juan Francisco Estrada. Since then, not much news has surfaced from Gonzalez’s camp Gonzalez, who was in Santa Ynez, California in support of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions exclusively spoke to BoxingScene and confirmed his ...
Ryan Garcia has taken to social media to criticise the decision to stage his April 20 fight with Devin Haney in New York. The former amateur rivals meet at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in one of the showpiece events of the year. The location has been a talking point, with the WBC super lightweight fight heading to the East ...
Of all of boxing’s clichés, few hold more truth than the claim that a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter. Nothing is more certain to make a fighter unhappy than struggling to make weight. The feeling can last for weeks on end and comes with a growing feeling of dread about just how bad the final 24 hours before the ...
Heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang has said he is focused on just one man ahead of his return to the ring. Zhang meets experienced New Zealander Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on March 8, and he is not looking beyond the former WBO champion. Zhang told Seconds Out that while his training team, including Shaun George, is putting in the work ...
Luis Alberto “Venado” Lopez is determined to turn his third world title defense into a war of attrition. Lopez will defend his IBF featherweight world title against Japanese contender Reiya Abe on Saturday, March 2 at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Lopez-Abe will serve as the co-feature to the vacant WBA featherweight world championship showdown between Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov and American standout Raymond Ford. ...
David Benavidez is not sitting on his hands waiting to win the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez sweepstakes. Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) is looking to make his 175lbs debut by securing a fight with former light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June, it was revealed on Thursday. They will contest the WBC interim light heavyweight title, the WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced. ...
Edgar Berlanga (21-0 16 KOs) takes on Padraig McCrory (18-0 9 KOs) in a twelve-round super middleweight at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida on Saturday night (February 24). (photos by Ed Mulholland/Matchroom.) In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, Cuban Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz (2-0, 1 KO) faces Mexico’s Brayan Zamarripa Rodriguez (14-2, 5 KOs). The bout will be broadcast live on ...
Trainer and Manager of Canelo Alvarez, Eddy Reynoso, has hit back at claims that the undisputed super middleweight champion is avoiding divisional rival David Benavidez. Canelo-Benavidez has become one of the most wanted fights in the sport due to their respective standings in the 168lb ranks and natural rivalry, with the pair firmly cemented in their positions as the top ...
Cain Sandoval and Javier Molina is an interesting fight and the co-feature of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions on Friday (February 23) at Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. Sandoval has been a tour-de-force as a pro. The 21-year-old from Sacramento, California is 11-0 with 11 knockouts in the junior welterweight division. Added to that, he has only gone 28 rounds. Yet Molina was a ...