Tahoe Blue Event Center in Lake Tahoe, Nevada - Raymond "Danger" Muratalla (19-0, 16 KOs) put the lightweight division on notice on Saturday night. The 26-year-old contender defended his regional lightweight titles with an eighth round knockout over the previously unbeaten Mexican puncher Diego Torres (18-1, 17 KOs), who had no answers from the start. Muratalla took the center of the ...
Plans remain on course to deliver the first undisputed heavyweight championship of the 21st century, just with a slight delay. The team surrounding two-division and reigning WBA, IBF, IBO and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk remains committed to fully unifying the heavyweight division. It will require a wait of at least two more months from their originally planned December 23 ...
It took him nearly 10 years, but “The Silent Roller” finally exacted revenge tonight. Nigerian contender Efe Ajagba (19-1, 14 KOs) defended his WBC Silver heavyweight title with a fourth-round stoppage over Australia’s Joe Goodall (10-2-1, 9 KOs) Saturday evening at Tahoe Blue Event Center in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Ajagba and Goodall fought as amateurs in 2014, with Goodall earning ...
Joe Cordina admits Edward Vazquez was better than he expected. The IBF junior lightweight titlist from Wales had a much tougher-than-expected inaugural title defense against Fort Worth, Texas’ Vasquez last Saturday night at Casino de Monte Carlo Monte Carlo. After 12 rounds of back-and-forth action, Cordina won a narrow majority decision, with scorecards that read 116-112, 116-112, and 114-114. ...
Promoter Eddie Hearn felt his charge, Joe Cordina, deserved to hang onto his 130-pound title by the slimmest of margins. In what was the Welshman’s first defense of his IBF junior lightweight belt, Cordina outlasted a game Edward Vazquez in a back-and-forth tussle via majority decision Saturday night at Casino de Monte Carlo in Monte Carlo. An irate Vazquez, ...
Jack Catterall is finally feeling good about himself. In 2022, Catterall believed his shining moment had finally arrived. Yet, he was forced to tuck away the balloons and place the champagne back on the shelf as two of the three judges sitting ringside gave Josh Taylor the nod. Catterall took over a year to get his head on straight, but ...
The winner of a recently ordered title fight will have an immediate challenger waiting in the wings. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the teams for Victor Morales and Luis Nunez have been contacted by the sanctioning body to immediately begin negotiations for an ordered title eliminator. The pair of unbeaten featherweights will have until December 3 to work out terms for ...
OUR SPECTACULAR SOJOURN in Saudi Arabia has now drawn to a conclusion and I cannot truly overstate how much of a breathtaking experience it was and my gratitude goes out to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh and everyone involved in putting together the event to mark the opening of Riyadh Season 2023. Unless you were out there in person, you cannot ...
There were two sticking points whenever David Adeleye opened his mouth recently. One was that he was ready to go to the next level. The other? Well, that Fabio Wardley was all talk. This past Saturday night, the bombastic heavyweight prospect was wrong all around. Adeleye pranced to the ring as confident as ever. Even as blood dripped from his ...
There was no doubt about the outcome of Efe Ajagba’s rematch with Joe Goodall. The hard-hitting Nigerian heavyweight contender stopped Australia’s Goodall in the fourth round of their 10-round main event Saturday night at Tahoe Blue Event Center in Stateline, Nevada. Referee Tony Weeks stopped their fight 50 seconds into the fourth round because Goodall had taken too many unanswered ...