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Joseph Fernandez demonstrated remarkable resilience and recorded a career-changing win Friday night. Three months after suffering a first-round, technical-knockout defeat, Fernandez withstood a slow start against Zhiming Wang and won an eight-round unanimous decision in ProBox TV’s “Last Chance Tournament” in the 140-pound division. Fernandez took a lot of power punches in the first two

Former (?) WBA secondary heavyweight champion of the world, Mahmood “Manuel” Charr (32-4) continues his comeback with a showdown against Michael Wallisch (22-5) on May 28 at “Die Bucht” in Hamburg, Germany.  Charr fought a little over a year against puncher Christopher Lovejoy and easily stopped him in the second. That was his first fight

Eddie Hearn is clearly no fan of his former, disgraced heavyweight client Jarrell Miller. The Matchroom head used to promote Jarrell Miller, the brash heavyweight contender from Brooklyn whose career was derailed by a flurry of failed drug tests. But Hearn cut ties with him after Miller tested positive in three separate drug samples ahead

Junior welterweight Michael Dutchover (15-2, 10 KOs) will take part in The Last Chance Tournament when he battles veteran Clarence Booth (21-4, 13 KOs) in a scheduled 8-round bout on Friday night in Plant City, Florida. Dutchover of Midland, Texas is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing. The fight will be streamed on the

Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom has revealed that he’s been in discussions with the management of former two division world champion Billy Joe Saunders with respect to a comeback. Saunders was last seen in action back in May of 2021, when he suffered the first loss of his career – a stoppage at the hands

Boxing can take a combatant to the highest of peaks and then almost simultaneously dump them to the lowest of lows. The sport is littered with many such casualties and cautionary stories of stars that rose too fast only to crash and burn. It’s almost a cliché in the sport, the promising career of the

Unbeaten two-time world champion David “El Bandera Roja” Benavídez and former world champion David Lemieux officially kicked off fight week events with a media workout on Wednesday ahead of their 12-round showdown for the vacant Interim WBC Super Middleweight Title which headlines live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, May 21 from Gila River Arena in Glendale,

Joshua Buatsi will face former World Title challenger Craig Richards in a huge all London Light-Heavyweight clash on Saturday May 21, live worldwide on DAZN (excluding New Zealand and Australia). (photos by Mark Robinson) Croydon’s Buatsi (15-0, 13 KOs) scored his tenth knockout in a row when he stopped Latvia’s Ricards Bolotniks in the eleventh

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz In the end, Oleksandr Uysk decided he could do more for his country in the ring than hunkered down in a basement. The WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight champion made headlines last month when he announced he would temporarily forgo his rematch with Anthony Joshua in order to assist

Unbeaten No.1 ranked contender Rolando Romero headlined a media workout in Las Vegas Tuesday and promised a first-round knockout victory in his showdown against WBA Lightweight Champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis, boxing’s hottest young attraction, taking place Saturday, May 28 live on SHOWTIME PPV from Barclays Center in Brooklyn in an event presented by Premier Boxing

One of the best fights on the immediate boxing schedule finally has a U.S. platform on which it will air.  The highly anticipated rematch between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire will stream live on ESPN+, ending weeks of speculation for their previously announced June 7 WBC/WBA/IBF bantamweight unification bout from Saitama Arena in Saitama, Japan.

USA Boxing Foundation Board of Directors member Elise Seignolle was recently voted as one of the 10 new Independent Directors of the International Boxing Association (IBA) Board of Directors after earning the most votes of all candidates during the final day of the IBA Extraordinary Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.  “I am grateful for all the

Deontay Wilder will become a permanent fixture in his hometown. (photo by Ryan Hafey) A life-size statue created in honor of the 2008 Olympic Bronze medalist and former longtime WBC heavyweight titlist will be unveiled May 25 on the grounds of Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports in Wilder’s hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A public ceremony will

The outcome on BoxRec reads, as of tonight (Monday, May 16, 8.40 local time, central Europe), that Ugandan veteran Hamza Wandera (20-19-3) won over local man Musa Yamak (8-1), in what is listed as a RTD 2, meaning Yamak retired at the end of the second in what was the headliner of small show in

Amateur national champion Jamar Pemberton is scheduled to make professional debut on May 21st on EntroBox Bally Sports card at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida.  After a decorated amateur career that spanned nearly 200 fights, the St. Louis born southpaw signed a managerial pact with Victory Sports earlier this year and set his sights on

CARSON, California – Sebastian Contursi couldn’t believe what he had heard. Brian Castano’s manager had to ask again during their post-fight press conference if one of the judges, Glenn Feldman, actually scored eight of nine completed rounds for Jermell Charlo on Saturday night. Connecticut’s Feldman indeed had Charlo ahead, 89-82, entering the fateful 10th round

Undefeated junior middleweight contender Tim Tszyu was ringside on Saturday night at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California – and watched Jermell Charlo set the record straight by knocking out Brian Castano in the tenth round of their rematch to become the undisputed champion at 154-pounds. In a very competitive fight, Charlo scored two

Manchester, England – The Mexican folklore hero Zorro was a master swordsman but also famous for his cunning (zorro is the Spanish word for fox), which he used to confound his adversaries before taking their wealth and distributing it to those in need.  His British namesake Ellis Zorro (14-0, 6 KO’s) brought the myth to