Ricky Burns: record, next fight and profile →
GLASGOW, Scotland - Namibia's Julius Indongo captured the WBA super-lightweight title by beating Scottish fighter Ricky Burns on points Saturday in just his second professional bout outside his home country. Burns, a three-weight world champion, was on the defensive for much of the night against Indongo, who improved his record to 22-0.
Glasgow, Scotland - In a battle for the WBA, IBF, IBO junior welterweight titles, Julius Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs) put on a boxing clinic in dominating three division world champion Ricky Burns (41-6-1, 14 KOs) to easily secure a twelve round unanimous decision. The scores were 120-108, 118-110, 116-112. Burns I...
Burns vs. Indongo Live Scorecard BoxingScene - The weights are in and the fighters are ready, as Ricky Burns will face unbeaten Namibian Julius Indongo in a WBA, IBO and IBF light-welterweight unification clash at Glasgow's SSE Hydro on April 15. Burns came in at 139.2-pounds, while Indongo was 139.3-pounds.
by Cliff Rold - While Terence Crawford may be rightly recognized as the best fighter in the Jr. welterweight division, and its current legitimate champion, he’s only got two of the four most recognized alphabet titles floating around. The other two will be contested this Saturday in Scotland (AWE, 2:30 PM EST/11:30 AM PST).
NEW YORK – There wasn’t much demand for a rematch once Terence Crawford defeated Ricky Burns three years ago. Crawford won the WBO world lightweight title in convincing fashion from Burns in Glasgow, Scotland, and the scorecards reflected the thorough nature of Crawford’s victory (117-111, 116-112, 116-112). If Burns beats Julius Indongo on Saturday, however, a Crawford-Burns rematch would become an important option for Crawford because it would represent an opportunity to become boxing’s undisputed 140-pound champion.
The weights are in and the fighters are ready, as Ricky Burns will face unbeaten Namibian Julius Indongo in a WBA, IBO and IBF light-welterweight unification clash at Glasgow's SSE Hydro on April 15. Burns came in at 139.2-pounds, while Indongo was 139.3-pounds.
Eddie Hearn thought he had seen the last of Ricky Burns when he surrendered his lightweight world title. But after watching the Coatbridge fighter drag himself back to the summit of world boxing the promoter is refusing to put a limit on Burns' possibilities. The 'Rickster' faces Namibian Julius Indongo in Glasgow on Saturday night in what he describes as the biggest fight of his career, with the unified Super Lightweight world championship on the line.
Ricky Burns is gunning for the ultimate birthday present this weekend as he aims to add Julius Indongo’s IBF and IBO World titles to his own WBA Super-Lightweight title in their unification clash at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday night (April 15) live on Sky Sports.
The WBA champion, Ricky Burns faces up to the IBF world champion Julius Indongo at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on the 15th April 2017. The winner of the match will unify the titles and then should be looking forward to heading off to the United States; to further cement their position with a final unification fight, most likely to be in Las Vegas.
Julius Indongo has told Ricky Burns that the hometown fans won’t help him when they clash in a World Super-Lightweight unification showdown at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on Saturday night (April 15) live on Sky Sports. Indongo is looking to add Burns’ WBA strap to the IBF and IBO belts he won in spectacular fashion in December when he travelled to Russia in his first fight outside of his homeland of Namibia and delivered a devastating one-punch KO win over champion Eduard Troyanovsky.