There is a featherweight title fight you better not sleep on this Saturday night. Camden’s Raymond Ford has his first shot at a world title against Ukrainian Otabek Kholmatov at the Turning Stone in Oneida in upstate New York. Ford is a gifted southpaw – poised and cultured, slick, quick, and gifted. He’s also only 24 and a former Golden ...
Kalle Sauerland’s Wasserman Boxing heads to the little-known West Midlands town of Telford this Friday to host the vacant EBU super welterweight title fight between Germany’s Abass Baraou and England’s Sam Eggington. Baraou (14-1, 9 KOs) has been the long-standing mandatory for the belt, but has struggled to secure vacant title bouts with France’s Milan Prat and and Liverpool’s James ...
Junto Nakatani is one of my favourite active fighters. On Saturday he produced a wildly impressive performance against a very-tough champion in Alexandro Santiago, who previously impressed when he won his title from Nonito Donaire. He was brilliant. Regardless of Donaire’s age, Donaire can seriously punch, so for Nakatani to completely control Santiago – disarm him; keep him where he ...
Lightweight Miguel Madueno got the biggest win of his career Wednesday, taking a split-decision victory over Justin Pauldo at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida. The judges saw the bout 95-94, 94-95 and 97-92 for Madueno. In the 10-round "Wednesday Night Fights" main event broadcast on ProBox TV, Madueno (31-2, 28 KOs) came out like a bull. He ...
Lightweight Tsendbaatar Erdenebat is a lightweight to watch. Erdenebat (9-0, 4 KOs), a 2016 Mongolian Olympian, won an eight-round unanimous decision over Mohamed Soumaoro (14-3, 6 KOs) in an eight-round bout Wednesday at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida. The judges saw the bout 79-73, 80-72, and 80-72 for Erdenebat. The first round was slow. Erdenebat was able ...
Gilberto Ramirez has the chance to become Mexico’s first cruiserweight world champion when he fights Arsen Goulamirian in Inglewood, California, on March 30. The Armenia-born Goulamirian (27-0, 19 KOs) defends his WBA belt at the YouTube Theater, just outside Los Angeles, in his American debut. Ramirez, 32, will be making his first official appearance in his new weight class. “It ...
Edgar Berlanga’s trainer doesn’t believe that his fighter is ready to challenge Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – and nor does he think anyone else is. That Berlanga stopped Padraig McCrory in six rounds in his past fight has, in the context of reports of Alvarez preparing to split from Premier Boxing Champions and return to Matchroom and DAZN – who also ...
Chantelle Cameron has spoken for the first time since her split from her trainer Jamie Moore. The 32-year-old Cameron lost her rematch with Katie Taylor last November, which had followed Taylor losing via majority decision to Cameron in May. But Cameron revealed that she had spoken about splitting from Moore even before the rematch with Taylor. “It was not after ...
Undefeated heavyweight phenom Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson is angling for another big knockout. The fighting pride of Toledo, Ohio, steps up in class to face Belgian contender Ryad Merhy on Saturday, April 13, in the 10-round main event at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. In the 10-round heavyweight co-feature, Nigerian puncher Efe Ajagba and Italian standout ...
The origin story isn’t anything spectacular. In fact, it’s the stereotypical one that has been attached to prizefighters around the globe for decades. A kid does well on the amateur scene – well enough that someone approaches them with an offer to make some money in a fight, and the kid takes it. Twenty-year-old Amanda Serrano – the kid, in ...