With his promoter, the former two-division champion Marcos Maidana urging him on from ringside, Argentina’s Fernando Martinez punished Jerwin Ancajas over 12 rounds to wrest away his IBF junior bantamweight title via a unanimous decision in a star-making performance in the SHOWTIME telecast opener. After exchanging hugs, handshakes and pleasantries during the final press conference
Month: March 2023
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Emmanuel Rodriguez and Vincent Astrolabio are set to compete for a bantamweight title. Just not the same title—nor any longer versus one another. BoxingScene.com has learned that talks for the previously ordered Rodriguez-Astrolabio vacant IBF bantamweight title fight have been abandoned. The sanctioning body has now ordered a new fight between Puerto Rico’s Rodriguez and
Zhilei Zhang will return to London for the first time since the London 2012 Olympics to fight heavyweight contender Joe Joyce on April 15. Zhang is back in the heavyweight mix following a tight and entertaining loss to Filip Hrgovic last August and is planning on further climbing the ladder in claiming the WBO interim
Posted on 02/28/2023 By: Sean Crose Last year’s Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano undisputed lightweight tile fight at Madison Square Garden was chosen by Boxing Insider as 2022’s Fight Of The Year. It was a true thriller, which each woman rising to the occasion and battling ferociously until the closing bell. Taylor won by split decision, though