Earlier this month at the SSE Arena at Wembley, there was a battle of heavyweight contenders, with Martin Bakole (16-1, 12 KOs) winning a ten round unanimous decision over Sergey Kuzmin (15-1, 11 KOs). The scores were 98-92, 97-93 and 96-94. Kuzmin’s promoter, Andrei Ryabinsky, felt the contest was very close and could have easily gone to his
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Moscow, Russia – Russian super middleweight Pavel Silyagin capped off his debut year in paid ranks with a solid fourth-round stoppage of veteran journeyman Sergey Khomistkiy (32-20-3, 14 KOs). Silyagin, 27, a bigger, taller and much younger of the two, has been easily dispatching his 46-year old opponent for four rounds, rarely taking anything in
Joe Joyce won three regional titles when he knocked out Daniel Dubois last month in London. Joyce’s manager proclaimed that impressive victory evidence that the huge, hard-hitting contender is ready for a world heavyweight title shot. Champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have their sights set on an enormous showdown with each other in 2021, but Sam
David Morell Jr. thought he wasn’t going to fight again until next year. But for several weeks he had been warned to be ready by December 26. Just after Christmas Day, the Cuban will return to the ring in Los Angeles in a Premier Boxing Champions main event on FOX. The interim-WBA super middleweight champion
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has no concerns when it comes to the drug testing past of WBC champion Tyson Fury. Back in 2017, Fury agreed to a back-dated two year ban with drug testing agency UKAD – a punishment pertaining to a positive test for the banned substance nandrolone in early 2015. Fury’s team claimed the positive test