Benito Juárez Sports Center in Cancun, Mexico - In his first defense of the WBC super featherweight title, O’Shaquie Foster (21-2, 12 KOs) rallied in the championship rounds to stop a very durable Eduardo ‘Rocky’ Hernandez (34-2 31 KOs) in the twelfth and final round. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Foster came out jabbing and moving around the ring. Hernandez was ...
Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou defied all expectations on Saturday, with his impressive performance against Tyson Fury. Ngannou gave Fury, the reigning WBC world champion, all he could handle in their non-title crossover fight in Saudi Arabia. Very few expected Ngannou to last the entire ten round distance. The vast majority of observers had tabbed him to get stopped ...
Artur Beterbiev couldn’t help taking a verbal jab at Dmitry Bivol in a recent face-to-face encounter. The Russian light heavyweight champions took part in a jovial, mock face-off during fight week proceedings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ahead of the high profile heavyweight contest on Saturday between WBC titlist Tyson Fury and former UFC champion Francis Ngannou. Boxing fans have long ...
Verona’s Dumitru Girlean bounced back into the win column with an eye-catching submission finish in the main event of Cage Warriors 162 in Rome, Italy. The 13-fight card featured Italian athletes in every fight as the promotion showcased its growing roster of Italian talent, and the main event saw two compatriots go face to face in a rematch as Girlean ...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Super bantamweight contender Azat Hovhannisyan is staying ready and champing at the bit to return to the ring following his fight of the year contending loss to Luis Nery in February. Hovhannisyan (21-4, 17 KOs) had a solid showing in all out slugfest but faded late, suffering a 10th round knockdown and 11th stoppage loss in ...
Former two division world champion Carl Frampton believes MMA veteran Francis Ngannou was the rightful winner of Saturday's crossover clash with Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia. After ten rounds of action, Fury barely edged out a split decision victory. While most expected a one-sided win for Fury, the bout played out in a much different manner. Fury was shockingly dropped ...
Ryomsgard, Denmark - TK Promotions joined forces with the local amateur boxing club and they produced a good show with an almost full house. Unfortunately, the main event, a cruiserweight clash between Jeppe Moller Christensen and Samo Jangirov, fell through when Christensen had to pull out due to injury but the event went ahead anyway. In the main event, super ...
Oleksandr Usyk still wants to fight Tyson Fury on December 23. Fury and his co-promoter, Frank Warren, weren’t so sure Saturday night that will still be the date of their heavyweight title unification fight. Fury suffered a small cut on the lower left side of his forehead and some swelling around his left eye during his tougher-than-anticipated, 10-round, split-decision defeat ...
Francis Ngannou defied the odds, the doubters, and the majority of the sporting world as he produced a remarkable performance against Tyson Fury in their huge boxing bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou sensationally dropped Fury in the third round with a left hook and proved to be Fury’s match through the 10-round duration. But the judges stepped in to ...
Justis Huni produced a similar result in a new setting. The unbeaten Australian heavyweight prospect went the full ten-round distance in a well-earned, unanimous decision win over former cruiserweight title challenger Andrew Tabiti. The judges were wide with their scores (100-90, 98-92, 98-92) in an otherwise competitive DAZN-aired co-feature Saturday evening at Poliforum Benito Juarez in Cancun, Mexico. This same ...