
Jack Massey Defends IBO Strap on April 30 at University of Bolton Stadium
Jack Massey will make the first defense of his IBO World Cruiserweight Title on April 30th at the University of Bolton Stadium, LIVE on Fightzone.

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Jack Massey will make the first defense of his IBO World Cruiserweight Title on April 30th at the University of Bolton Stadium, LIVE on Fightzone.

Josh Kelly (10-1-1, 6 KOs), Harlem Eubank (13-0, 5 KOs) and the British middleweight title clash between Linus Udofia (17-0, 9 KOs) and Denzel Bentley (15-1-1, 13 KOs) will top a card in the capital as Wasserman Boxing launch their first free-to-air event live on Channel 5 on Friday May 13 at the Indigo at the O2, in association with William Hill, Numan and Infinitum Entertainment.

Richard Schaefer has made the same prediction about the future of Pat McCormack as he did for a young Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez – that the Olympian will become a pound-for-pound great.

The brackets are set, and Team USA now knows their potential path to stand atop the medal podium in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the 2022 AMBC Elite Championships, as competition begins tomorrow.

Former WBC flyweight world champion Charlie Edwards wants to make British boxing history by joining his brother Sunny as a reigning world champion.

Houston’s Marlen Esparza (11-1, 1 KOs) will take on Tokyo’s Naoko Fujioka (19-2-1, 17 KOs) in a 10-round fight in a showdown for the WBC and WBA flyweight world championships. The historic two-title showdown will be featured as part of the undercard for Ryan Garcia vs. Emmanuel Tagoe in San Antonio, Texas, live, worldwide on DAZN. Also, part of the DAZN live stream, “King” Gabriel Rosado (26-14-1, 15 KOs) of Philadelphia, PA, will face-off against Shane Mosley Jr. (17-4, 10 KOs) of Pomona, CA in a 10-round fight for the WBA Continental Americas Super Middleweight title.

Undefeated prospect, Ernesto "Tito" Mercado (4-0, 4 KOs), who has started his career with four straight knockouts, looks to make it five in a row as he fights at The Hangar, in Costa Mesa, California, on April 14th against an opponent yet to be named. The scheduled 6-round bout is being promoted by Englebrecht Promotions & Events on the popular Fight Club OC series.

Premier Sports announced that their platform will have coverage of Welshmen Lee Selby’s (28-3, 9 knockouts) fight versus the undefeated Gustavo Lemos (27-0, 17 knockouts), which takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina this Saturday night – on Premier Sports 1.

Hannah Rankin’s first defence of her WBA and IBO world titles will now take place at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro Arena after demand for tickets meant a bigger venue needed to be found.

This is a time of firsts for Mexican star Miguel "El Alacran" Berchelt. The former WBC super featherweight world champion is now campaigning as a lightweight and will begin his quest to become a two-weight world champion Saturday against Jeremiah Nakathila in the 10-round main event at Resorts World Las Vegas.