Nonito Donaire continued his impressive late-career run tonight in Showtimes’s main event, stopping Reymart Gaballo on a 4th round left hook to the liver that put Gaballo down for the count. Donaire (42-6, 28 KOs) come out pressuring Gaballo (24-1, 20 KOs) but Gaballo was game and was prepared to enact his gameplan, utilizing his
Liverpool – IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA lightweight world champion Katie Taylor (20-0, 6 KOs) won a ten round unanimous decision over Firuza Sharipova (14-2, 8 KOs). (Photos by Mark Robinson) The scores were 98-92, 97-92 and 96-93. It was a technical contest for the most part, with each fighter picking their spots. Taylor was the
Posted on 12/12/2021 By: Sean Crose A rejuvenated Nonito Donaire returned to the ring Saturday night with a scheduled 12 round defense of the WBC bantamweight title he won from Nordine Oubaali last May. The 41-6 Donaire’s opponent was undefeated fellow Filipino, Reymart Gaballo, 24-0. The bout was the main event of a Showtime card broadcast
1:40 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko was on the verge of the statement win he was searching for Saturday, the kind of performance that could land him a shot at the undisputed lightweight championship. After he floored Richard Commey in the seventh round of their lightweight bout at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Lomachenko
Issue • Premium • Reports Sarah Stier/Getty Images With the world’s top lightweights all in action over the last three weeks, Vasiliy Lomachenko puts in the most convincing performance, writes Sean Nam IN a topsy-turvy, three-week span that saw virtually every top lightweight in the world step into the ring, it may have been the
Jared Anderson TKO-2 Oleksandr Teslenko On paper, if you don’t look very closely, this was a “big step up” for the 22-year-old Anderson, who is now 11-0 (11 KO), but if you looked closely, you saw that Teslenko (17-2, 13 KO) was a 29-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian with a paper-thin record and had been stopped in five
NEW YORK – Keyshawn Davis delivered the type of performance Saturday night that demonstrated why Bob Arum signed him to a promotional contract last month. The 22-year-old Davis dropped Jose Zaragoza twice in the second round on his way to a technical-knockout victory on the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Richard Commey undercard at Madison Square Garden. Norfolk’s Davis
Posted on 12/11/2021 In what turned out to be the toughest fight of his young career, middleweight prospect Nico Ali Walsh (3-0, 2 KOs) won a back and forth battle against fellow prospect Reyes Sanchez (6-1, 2 KOs). It was the first time in Walsh’s career that he was forced to go the full four
5:23 PM ET Tim Fiorvanti Close ESPN.com WWE on ESPN Editor Michael Rothstein Close ESPN Staff Writer Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Vasiliy Lomachenko is healthy and ready to earn his way back into a lightweight championship fight, but first he needs
News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Irish star Katie Taylor outpoints Kazakh challenger Sharipova to defend her crown KATIE TAYLOR retained her lightweight world championship with a clear victory over Firuza Sharipova at the M&S Arena in Liverpool on Saturday night (December 11). Taylor took the measure of Sharipova in the first round, slipping quickly back from
News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Conor Benn takes out Chris Algieri with a ferocious finish and confirms himself a new star in British boxing CONOR BENN continues his rise. The younger fighter is increasingly popular not only due to his likeable personality, his famous father Nigel but his own increasingly impressive performances in the ring and
Caoimhin Agyarko produced a huge left hook to force a ninth-round stoppage of Californian Noe Larios Jr in a scheduled ten-rounder at middleweight on the Benn-Algieri bill in Liverpool. At 25, Agyarko, who was born in London but who calls Belfast home, has a lot going for him, but is clearly still a work in
Dmitry Bivol returns to the ring in Russia to defend his WBA light heavyweight title against Umar Salamov, with DAZN airing the fights starting at 11:40 am ET. BLH will be here for live coverage. All live updates including round by round for the main event will come in this stream: Bivol (18-0, 11 KO)
Posted on 12/11/2021 By: Sean Crose A rejuvenated Nonito Donaire returns to the ring Saturday night with a scheduled 12 round defense of the WBC bantamweight tile he won from Nordine Oubaali last May. The 41-6 Donaire’s opponent will be undefeated fellow Filipino, Reymart Gaballo, 24-0. Gaballo’s last opponent was the very game Emmanuel Rodriguez,
Super Welterweight sensation Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora defeated 2016 Australian Olympian Daniel Lewis in the 10-round PPV opener of the Wilder vs Fury 2 PPv. #FundoraLewis #SebastianFundora #DanielLewis Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
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AIBA has committed to carefully consider and fully implement the recommendations of Professor Richard McLaren’s report published today as part of his ongoing investigation into boxing. Professor McLaren’s latest report reviews the Rio 2016 Olympic boxing tournament and more recent competitions up to and including the AIBA World Boxing Championships 2021 in Belgrade. “AIBA is
Posted on 12/07/2021 By: Hans Themistode Credit: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxin For a number of years now, Demetrius Andrade has urged Jermall Charlo to face him in the ring. With Houston’s Charlo in possession of the WBC middleweight title and Rhode Island’s Andrade holding firmly to the WBO crown, the multiple division titlist would love nothing