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In a low-key stay busy fight, former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs scored his 50th career knockout, taking down 300-pounder Richard Carmack in the first round on Saturday night at the Isle of Capri Casino, Lula, Mississippi. Briggs (57-6-1, 50 KOs) dropped Carmack (12-6, 10 KOs) three times, the third time for the count. Time was 2:59. It was Briggs’ sixth straight win since launching his comeback in April read more ...

Former super bantamweight world champion Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. (24-4-1, 19 KOs) returned to action with an eight round majority decision over Jonathan Arellano (15-5-2, 3 KOs) in a featherweight clash on Saturday night at the Hector Sola Bezares Coliseum in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Vazquez got past a rough round two to pull away to a 76-76, 78-74, 77-75 win read more ...

2012 US Olympian welterweight Jose Ramirez (12-0, 9 KOs) impressed again, destroying David Rodela (17-10-4, 7 KOs) in the first round on Saturday before a sellout crowd at the Selland Arena in Fresno, California. A right hook put Rodela down for the count after just 50 seconds. With the win, Ramirez claimed the vacant «junior» NABF welterweight title read more ...

Former IBF bantamweight champion Paul Butler (17-0, 8 KOs), now campaigning as a super flyweight, was unable to stop rugged late sub Ismael Garnica (13-5-1, 5 KOs) on Saturday night at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, England. Butler had to go the full ten in a stay busy fight as he waits for original opponent and IBF 115lb world champion Zolani Tete to recover from injury. The referee’s score were 100-91 read more ...

Middleweight Martin Murray (29-1-1, 12 KOs) set up an expected February showdown with WBA champion Gennedy Golovkin with a seventh round technical decision over Domenico Spada (39-6, 19 KOs) on Saturday night at the Salle des etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The bout was stopped abruptly at 1:19 of round seven due to a minor cut suffered earlier by Spada read more ...

Lightweight Tommy Coyle (20-2, 9 KOs) stopped former two-time interim beltholder Michael Katsidis (30-7, 24 KOs) with a single left hook in round two at the Hull Arena in Hull, England. Katsidis went down in a heap and was very unsteady when he regained his feet prompting a referee’s stoppage. It’s been a bad year for Australians fighting abroad read more ...

Oscar De La Hoya will host a press conference next week to announce the fight card headlined by NABF Middleweight Champion David Lemieux taking on middleweight contender «King» Gabriel Rosado on Saturday, December 6 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY, live on HBO Boxing After Dark. Also in attendance at the press conference and fighting on Dec. 6 read more ...

Former WBA heavyweight champion and WBC #3 rated Alexander Povetkin (28-1, 20 KOs) scored a sensational tenth round KO over #5 rated Carlos Takam (30-2-1, 23 KOs) in an important heavyweight clash on Friday night at the Luzhniki Concert Hall in Moscow, Russia. In was a very close and grueling fight, Takam got off to an early lead, but Povetkin upped his pressure and wore down Takam read more ...

WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (25-0-1, 23KOs) is not focused on a single strategy for the upcoming unification with WBA/IBF champion Bernard Hopkins (55-6-2, 32KOs). The fight is set for November 8th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City read more ...

Unbeaten heavyweight contender Joseph Parker (11-0, 9 KOs) scored a one-sided ten round unanimous decision over Sherman «Tank» Williams (36-14-2, 19 KOs) on Thursday night at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand. The 22-year-old Parker outboxed and outpunched the 42-year-old Williams, but was unable to get an early stoppage. The «Tank» has still never been stopped in his 52 fight career read more ...