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When Jamaine Ortiz heard ring announcer Mark Shunock read the first score, 117-111, he thought there was no way he could’ve been declared the loser of his 12-round title fight with Teofimo Lopez. When Shunock announced the other two scores, 115-113 apiece, Ortiz still believed that he had done enough to win the WBO junior welterweight championship from Lopez on ...

Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia have transformed years of talk into a budding superfight. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a deal was reached for the pair of young stars to meet atop an April 20 DAZN pay-per-view event. Both sides acknowledged to Boxing Scene that advanced talks rapidly progressed to agreed terms, in line with breaking news reports from Daily Star’s ...

Oscar Collazo sees enough room in his year to fight the entire Shigeoka family. The trio of unbeaten titlists are part of a new wave of strawweights talented and entertaining enough to entice an audience beyond the sport’s most fervent fanbase. Puerto Rico’s Collazo holds the WBO belt, while the WBC and IBF titles belong to Yudai and Ginjiro Shigeoka, ...

Promoter Eddie Hearn is apparently doing all that he can to get his client-pal Devin Haney a significant fight, despite whatever Oscar De La Hoya may think. It was reported recently that there are serious talks between Haney, the WBC 140-pound titlist, and Ryan Garcia, for a showdown later this spring. Garcia, of Victorville, Calif., is backed by promoter Oscar ...

British super featherweight champion Liam Dillon has a chance to add the Commonwealth title to his growing collection of belts when he faces a resurgent Reece Bellotti at the top of a Matchroom NXTGEN card at Indigo at The O2 this Saturday February 10, live worldwide on DAZN.  Chingford’s Dillon (13-0-1, 3 KOs), a former Southern Area and English Champion ...

Teofimo Lopez averaged 12 power punches thrown over the first five rounds while Jamaine Ortiz averaged 19. Over the next six rounds Lopez came on, averaging 18 power punches thrown per round while Ortiz averaged 15. In the final round, Lopez threw a fight high 36 power punches. The combatants landed the exact same amount of punches in four of ...

This Saturday, Feb. 10, unbeaten standout Hamzah Sheeraz defends his Commonwealth title in the 12-round main event against former British champion Liam Williams at London’s Copper Box Arena. In the 12-round co-feature, lightweight knockout artist Sam Noakes and fellow unbeaten Lewis Sylvester will battle for the Commonwealth, British, and WBC International Silver titles. Sheeraz-Williams, Noakes-Sylvester, and additional undercard bouts will ...

Keyshawn Davis delivered just the type of impressive performance Thursday night that he needed. The talented lightweight was especially sharp while he picked apart Jose Pedraza and stopped the former two-division champion in the sixth round of ESPN’s co-feature before Teofimo Lopez met Jamaine Ortiz in the main event at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las ...

A significant first step was taken in the quest to crown an undisputed 122-pound champion. BoxingScene.com has learned that Ellie Scotney and Segolene Lefebvre have agreed to terms for a bout to unify the IBF and WBO junior featherweight belts. The battle of unbeaten titlists is eyed for the already announced April 13 DAZN show from AO Arena in Manchester. ...

Simply winning won’t suffice for Keyshawn Davis on Thursday night in Las Vegas. The unbeaten lightweight feels he needs to deliver a dominant performance in a televised fight against the most accomplished opponent of his three-year professional career. Davis has attached that type of pressure to his 10-round bout against Jose Pedraza because he narrowly won his last bout by ...