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The World Boxing Council (WBC) announced a nine-month suspension for Alejandra "Tigre" Jiménez after failing an anti-doping test done in January. With the sanction, the WBC reinstated Franchon Crews-Dezurn as world champion of the super middleweight division. Jiménez had beaten Crews-Dezurn by split decision on Jan. 11 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, but on January 24, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency announced that ...

Focused on new projects and without neglecting the necessary training in the gym, undefeated WBC world super bantamweight champion Rey Vargas says he is ready to return to the ring whenever Premier Boxing Champions [PBC] tells him to. Vargas hopes to get a big fight this year - and among the names he would like to face is his Mexican compatriot Luis 'Pantera' Nery ...

Dillian Whyte’s interim WBC heavyweight title clash with Alexander Povetkin looks likely to go ahead on August 15 in the grounds of Matchroom’s headquarters in Essex after the Manchester show that was to have included it was formally cancelled. The show had originally been scheduled for May but was pushed back to July 4 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now ...

It’s fight week and UFC 250 is right round the corner. On Saturday, two-division champion Amanda Nunes will make the first defence of her UFC women’s featherweight championship against Canada’s Felicia Spencer. But that’s not the only fight to have a major implication on its weight class. The UFC 250 main card boasts three big-time bantamweight bouts which is sure ...

WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury fully expects Deontay Wilder to move forward with their trilogy fight. They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December of 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Their rematch took place in February, at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, with Fury capturing the WBC title with a seven round stoppage of Wilder. ...

George Kambosos Jr. and Lee Selby both entered 2020 with the hope of facing each other for the right to land a title shot presumably by year’s end. At best, their head-on collision will serve as their lone piece of ring action this year. The aforementioned International Boxing Federation (IBF) lightweight title eliminator has been rescheduled for the second time ...

Claressa Shields was originally supposed to fight Marie-Eve Dicaire on May 9, but the showdown in Shields’ hometown of Flint, Michigan was scrapped due to the coronavirus global pandemic. Shields (10-0, 2 KOs), a three-division champion and two-time US gold medalist, is declaring that she will be delivering Dicaire (17 -0, 0 KOs) a rain check, and eventual beating, once the ...

Before his most recent fight last November, Adam Lopez said 2020 was going to be the year when all eyes would be on him. He was right, but what he couldn’t have predicted is that the reason everyone is looking at the featherweight up and comer now is that he is going to be one of the first boxers back ...

Ben Davison, the former trainer of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is still shocked with his former fighter's ability to rise up in the twelfth round of his first contest with Deontay Wilder. The contest, which ended in a controversial twelve round split draw, took place in December 2018. Fury's boxing style gave Wilder fits throughout the fight. But, Fury ...

Bob Arum advised anyone dissatisfied with the June fights ESPN and Top Rank have announced thus far to remain patient. The 88-year-old promoter’s company encountered unprecedented problems while putting together cards that ESPN will air throughout June, mostly on Tuesday nights and Thursday nights. Extensive COVID-19 testing for everyone involved in those shows is an enormous expense promoters and networks ...