Photo Credit: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom. Former Olympic champion Andy Cruz couldn’t get a knockout in his third professional outing, but he left opponent Brayan Zamarripa bloodied, bruised and beaten at the end of 10 lightweight rounds at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida on Saturday night. Cruz, who defeated Keyshawn Davis in the final to take gold at the Tokyo games in ...
Vargas (18-1, 10 KOs) started brightly in round one, looking to land sneaky left hooks behind a swift, snapping jab, but it was Rodriguez (17-2-1, 7 KOs), coming off a first-round destruction of Kal Yafai, who broke through first, dropping Vargas hard with a right hand in the final seconds of the first round. Vargas, however, came out for the ...
WBC and WBO female bantamweight champion Dina Thorslund (21-0) retained her titles with an eighth-round stoppage of a brave but outclassed challenger in Mary Romero (9-5), who had accepted the fight on two days' notice. Romero looked dangerous early on, with big swings from both hands, but Thorslund avoided them and kept coming. Thorslund scored well to the body and Romero ...
Claressa Shields overcame some worrying moments before winning her most-recent PFL MMA fight on points over three rounds. Fighting in the Professional Fighters League in Saudi Arabia this evening (Saturday, February 24), Shields was on top early with some exchanges but started to get involved in close and that suited her opponent, Kelsey DeSantis. In the second round, Shields was ...
Gervonta Davis took to social media platform X to reveal the offer he had received for a potential bout with Conor Benn. Benn was last in action on February 3, against Peter Dobson at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, defeating Dobson over 12 rounds to claim a unanimous points win as the 27-year-old Benn continued to rebuild his career following ...
Manny Robles has high hopes for Cuban prospect Osvel Caballero. Caballero stopped Jason Buenaobra (10-10-3, 4 KOs) in the fourth-round of the TV opener on the 360 Promotions card last night (February 23). The fight marked Caballero’s US debut and he boxed a little bit above the featherweight limit between, 127 and 128lbs, improving to 5-0, with four knockouts with ...
Edgar Berlanga will get another opportunity to prove his promise and potential when he takes on Padraig McCrory on Saturday at the Caribe Royale in Orlando. The fight will headline a Matchroom Boxing card on DAZN. Berlanga (21-0, 16 KOs) has fizzled a bit recently after kicking off his career to a sizzling start with 16 straight first-round knockout wins. ...
Takuma Inoue made the first defense of his WBA bantamweight title by impressively stopping Jerwin Ancajas in nine rounds at Tokyo’s Kokugikan. In what perhaps represented the finest performance of his career – and certainly his finest win – he ended the improving Ancajas’ challenge 44 seconds into the ninth round with a powerful right hand to the body. It ...
Kosei Tanaka added to his impressive collection of belts and is now a champion at 115lbs having won belts at 105, 108 and 112. The new WBO super flyweight champion won the vacant title with a solid victory over Mexican co-challenger Christian Bacasegua, flooring the Mexican in round eight and earning the decision on all three scorecards by margins of ...
Future Hall of Famer Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, a four-division world champion, has a new weight class. His last fight was in 2022, a majority-decision loss to Juan Francisco Estrada. Since then, not much news has surfaced from Gonzalez’s camp Gonzalez, who was in Santa Ynez, California in support of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions exclusively spoke to BoxingScene and confirmed his ...