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In a fight so tactical it would have made Bernard Hopkins blush, faded heavyweights Antonio Tarver and Johnathon Banks stared each other down for six rounds before the 46-year old Tarver exploded, relatively speaking, to score a seventh round knockout and stay relevant amongst the shallow pool of American heavyweight talent read more ...

WBO lightweight champion Terence Crawford (25-0, 17 KOs) successfully defended his belt against mandatory challenger Ray Beltran (29-7-1, 17 KOs) with an impressive twelve round unanimous decision in front of a crowd of 11,127 on Saturday night at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Beltran was game and had some moments but the much quicker read more ...

IBF featherweight champion Evgeny Gradovich (19-0-1, 9 KOs) and Jayson Velez (22-0-1, 16 KOs) battled to a draw over twelve good action rounds on Saturday night at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. After a hard fought, gritty fight judges couldn’t determine a winner with Gradovich up 117-111 on one card, Velez ahead 115-113 read more ...

World rated Ramon «Inocente» Alvarez (21-4-2, 13 KOs) scored a seventh round knockout over former world champion Vivian Harris (32-10-2, 19 KOs) on Saturday night at the Modulo Comude in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. With his brother Canelo Alvarez cheering him on from ringside, Alvarez dropped Harris twice in round seven. Harris just missed beating the count after the second knockdown read more ...

Unbeaten heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (23-0, 17 KOs) easily defeated Dereck Chisora (20-5, 13 KOs) scoring a tenth round TKO in a WBO eliminator to determine the mandatory WBO challenger for world champion Wladimir Klitschko on Saturday night before 20,000+ at the ExCel Arena in London, England. It was a one-sided affair as the read more ...

Former WBO jr welterweight world champion «The Siberian Rocky» Ruslan Provodnikov (24-3, 17 KOs) scored a fifth round KO over former two-time world champion Jose Luis Castillo (66-13-1, 57 KOs) on Friday at the Luzhniki GCKZ «Russia» Arena in Moscow. Provodnikov pressed the action and outworked Castillo, although Castillo gave a game effort. The end came in round five with Castillo going down twice read more ...

Heavyweight Kali Meehan (42-5, 32 KOs) hammered out a ten round unanimous decision over Shane Cameron (29-5, 22 KOs) on Saturday night at the North Shore Events Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. Both fighters had their moments with the 44-year-old Meehan generally getting the better of it. As the fight progressed, the super rugged Cameron got more and more busted up but continued fighting hard to the end read more ...

Wladimir Klitschko destroyed yet another heavyweight on Saturday at the O2 World Arena in Hamburg, Germany. The unified heavyweight champion did what he always does: clutched, grabbed and jabbed his way to a stoppage victory before thousands of adoring fans in Hamburg, Germany read more ...

Former two-division world champion Anthony «The Man» Mundine (47-6, 27 KOs) won a twelve round split decision over previously unbeaten WBC #2, IBF #3, WBA #5 Sergey Rabchenko (25-0, 18 KOs) on Wednesday night at the Hisense Arena in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The 39-year-old Mundine, who was defeated by Emanuel Clottey in April, got off to a good start. WBC open scoring revealed that «The Man» was up 40-36, 39-37 on two cards read more ...

The last U.S. heavyweight champion of the world Shannon Briggs (57-6-1, 50 KOs) fresh off of his 50th career KO this past Saturday is now headed to Germany. No doubt Briggs is planning to be at ringside for the November 15th clash between unified heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and his mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev. Now world ranked, Briggs’ current comeback has garnered plenty of media attention and fan support read more ...