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So far, Saudi Arabia’s foray into boxing has resulted in fantastic cards, imaginative matchmaking and promotional matrimony.

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So far, Saudi Arabia’s foray into boxing has resulted in fantastic cards, imaginative matchmaking and promotional matrimony.

It has been confirmed that former undisputed super lightweight champion, Chantelle Cameron, and Matchroom Boxing have parted ways.

We are just a month away from the eagerly awaited 5 vs. 5 competition between Frank Warren’s Queensberry stable and fighters who campaign under Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom banner. The one-night contest takes place in Riyadh on June 1st and serves as the undercard for the outstanding undisputed light heavyweight title fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitrii Bivol.

Filip Hrgovic is far too professional to overlook the threat posed by Daniel Dubois, but it would be fair to say that the unbeaten Croatian is supremely confident of beating the Londoner when they meet on June 1. It has emerged that Hrgovic, 17-0 (14 KOs), got the better of a young Dubois during a couple of sparring sessions. Despite a promise from the 26-year-old Dubois to put his opponent to sleep in Saudi Arabia, Hrgovic – who has taken to calling his rival “Big Duck” after a clumsy cartoon character he used to watch as a child – hasn’t seen anything to suggest things will be different when the pair swap punches for real. “He's just a little baby for me,” Hrgovic told Queensberry. “He’s not going to put me to sleep. I’ve fought much bigger punchers and they haven’t put me to sleep. He’s not going to put me to sleep; I’m going to destroy him. He’s not mature enough for me.

Tom Rafferty headlined Saturday night’s Black Flash Promotions show in Manchester, England, and the middleweight sent his large contingent of fans home happy, stopping Vaidas Balciauskas in four rounds. Rafferty is always in the gym, but having fought for the fifth time in 11 months, he has also obviously benefitted from the momentum of quickly moving from fight to fight.

Beatriz Ferreira is used to winning. Ferreira spent years traveling the world and fighting the very best during a long, hard and ultimately outstanding amateur career. But the 31-year-old Brazilian’s victory over Argentina’s Yanina Lescano on Saturday didn’t only secure her the vacant IBF lightweight title but also completed the first part of what Ferreira hopes will be a truly historic double.

Danny Dignum insists that a victory over Denzel Bentley will revitalise his career. The middleweights meet in a genuine crossroads fight on May 11 and the Londoner knows that it is a fight he must win. Both men came up short in their fights with now unified WBO and IBF middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly, but they each left Las Vegas with wildly different tales to tell. Whereas Bentley, 18-3-1 (15 KOs), recovered from a slow start to push Alimkhanuly hard over the second half of their fight and emerge with his reputation enhanced, things didn’t go as well for Dignum, 16-1-1 (9 KOs). The Londoner was never allowed to find his feet and was taken out in the second round by the quality Kazakh in May 2022.



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