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A crossroads fight at the light heavyweight limit is in play for January 14th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight would match Andrzej Fonfara (28-4, 16 KOs) against former WBC world champion Chad Dawson (34-4, 19 KOs).
MGM Grand, Las Vegas - This Saturday night, No. 2 Pound-for-Pound and WBO, WBA and IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev (30-0-1, 26 KOs) and No. 4 Pound-for-Pound and Two-Time World Champion Andre "S.O.G." Ward (30-0, 15 KOs) will collide in their "Pound for Pound" showdown at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
After years of working with Sam Colonna was time for a change. Light heavyweight contender Andrzej Fonfara (28-4, 16 KOs) parted ways with the coach and hired a new, much more familiar trainer.
IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is not paying attention to the challenges that are coming from Deontay Wilder, who holds the WBC heavyweight crown. This past Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, Joshua (17-0, 17KOs) pounded out a seventh round knockout of previously undefeated Dominic Breazeale (17-1, 15KOs).
This past Saturday night in Chicago, every saw what should be the current leading candidate for Upset of The Year, as unknown light heavyweight contender Joe Smith Jr. (22-1, 18 KOs) pulled off a shocking upset with a first round knockout of highly ranked and heavily favored Andrzej Fonfara (28-4, 16 KOs) at the UIC Pavilion.
According to Television By Numbers, Saturday's Premier Boxing Champions televised card on NBC drew an overnight rating of 1.32 million viewers. This edition of PBC on NBC, which began at 8:30PM EST and ran until 11:00PM, saw heavy underdog Joe Smith Jr. make a big statement in the light heavyweight division with a shocking first round knockout of highly ranked Andrzej Fonfara.
Very few in the boxing industry even gave Joe Smith Jr. a chance of being competitive versus perennial Top 5 light heavyweight contender Andrzej Fonfara, largely due his relative anonymity in the sport. Even fewer believed he would win and it’s doubtful that anyone among the crowd he brought from Long Island to the UIC Pavilion in Chicago could have predicted the night would have ended the way it did.
Fonfara - Smith Photos - CHICAGO - Hard-hitting light heavyweight contender Joe Smith Jr. (22-1, 18 KOs) delivered a shocking upset with a first round stoppage of crowd favorite Andrzej Fonfara (28-4, 16 KOs) Saturday night in the main event of Premier Boxing Champions on NBC from UIC Pavilion in Chicago.
Light heavyweight contender Joe Smith defeated favorite Andrzej Fonfara by first-round TKO in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions tripleheader Saturday night at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago.
In one of the year's shockers, Star Boxing??’s Long Island knockout artist Joe "The Irish Bomber" Smith Jr. (22-1, 18 KOs) stunned heavily-favored power-puncher Andrzej Fonfara (28-4, 16 KOs) with a first round TKO in the scheduled 10-round light heavyweight main event on Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC tonight at UIC Pavilion in Chicago.