The undefeated Australian Jai Opetaia retained his International Boxing Federation (IBF) cruiserweight world belt, after winning by technical knockout in the sixth round against the British Jack ...
with 33-year-old Bivol holding the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Organisation belts and Beterbiev, 39, the reigning World Boxing Council (WBC), World Boxing Organisation ...
Inoue, 20-2 (5 KOs), the younger brother of 122-pound champ Naoya “The Monster” Inoue, left the ring immediately after his second defense of the alphabet belt proved unsuccessful. Tsutsumi ...
From the outset, Opetaia took control, dominating the center of the ring and pressuring Massey, who gave up too much ground. Although Massey managed to land a solid right hand to the body, he ...
With 17 weight classes in boxing and four major sanctioning bodies that bestow world titles, keeping track of who holds each of the belts can be difficult -- especially when there are sometimes ...
Asked what he wanted next, he had a clear ambition, to kick on from British and Commonwealth belts to world championships. “I want belts,” he answered. “I want titles, I want [to become ...
“The Amazing Boy” was visibly undersized against veteran Cristofer Rosales in their meeting for the vacant WBC 112-pound belt, but he had every other possible advantage, and used his ...
Boxing is a complicated and convoluted sport with several world champions in each division. Most observers recognise that we are now in a four-belt era, with the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO all given ...
This was her second defense of the WBC belt since she won it back in April. Chapman (9-1, 2 KOs), of Norfolk, England, suffered the first loss of her career. The other champions in the division ...
With the International Boxing Association expelled from the Olympic movement, boxing has been left without a place in future editions of the Games. World Boxing is a new body, founded in April of ...
Ireland's hopes of competing at future Olympic Games has received a major boost after a resolution was passed to remove all references to the International Boxing Association (IBA) from the Irish ...
Beterbiev didn’t deliver the knockout but he did deliver, sweeping the final three rounds on all three judges’ scorecards to pull out a majority decision win. The result was disputed—Eddie Hearn, ...