
Luis Collazo Returns on April 19 in Plant City, Florida
On April 19 in Plant City, Florida, the main event will see former WBA world welterweight champion Luis Collazo lock horns with Angel Ruiz Astorga over ten rounds.

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On April 19 in Plant City, Florida, the main event will see former WBA world welterweight champion Luis Collazo lock horns with Angel Ruiz Astorga over ten rounds.

Organizers of Beltway Battles: Round Four, the Washington, DC-based pro boxing series produced by Rising Star Promotions, DHH Promotions, and Blue Cork Strategies in association with Events DC and DiBella Entertainment, announced its updated card set for Saturday, May 6 (doors at 5pm; first fight at 6pm) at DC’s Entertainment & Sports Arena.

A new queen will be crowned as a 114-year wait finally comes to an end on Saturday, May 6th when Lauren Price MBE and Kirstie Bavington become the first female professional boxers in history to compete for the inaugural British women’s championship and a coveted Lonsdale belt.

Panama City, Panama; The full undercard is set for this Friday April 14th from Centro de Combates, Pandeportes. In the evening's new main event, WBO #11 junior flyweight Latino champion Rene “El Chulo” Santiago (10-3 5 KO’s) of Humacao, Puerto Rico, steps in to defend his belt against local world ranked contender WBA #12 WBO #15 Carlos “Arañita” Ortega (15-6-3 6 KO’s) of La Chorrera, Panama.

He was just 10 years old when he first entered a boxing gym in his hometown of Stebnyk, Ukraine. By the time that he was a teenager and young adult, Oleh Dovhun had gained a reputation as a top-flight amateur fighter. With over 300 amateur fights, and several national titles, Dovhun travelled the world fighting with the Ukraine National Team as well as with the elite Ukraine Ottoman team of the World Series of Boxing.

Former Unified Super Bantamweight World Champion Murodjon ‘MJ’ Akhmadaliev has re-watched his fight against mandatory challenger Marlon Tapales from this past Saturday night and is incredulous at the scoring which resulted in him losing his world titles (WBA, IBF).

Undefeated WBA super lightweight world champion Alberto “La Avispa” Puello will make the first defense of his world title when he takes on hard-hitting contender Rolando “Rolly” Romero on Saturday, May 13 live on Showtime from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event.

Today, Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) and Real Fight Inc. (Real Fight), announced that they are partnering on August 5th, when Jake “The Problem Child” Paul and combat sports icon Nate Diaz will finally settle their growing feud over eight rounds at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX.

Junior middleweight phenom Xander Zayas is set to shine on the eve of Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City. Zayas will return in a 10-round re-scheduled battle against Ronald “Diablo” Cruz Saturday, June 10 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Zayas-Cruz will serve as the co-feature to the junior welterweight showdown between WBO champion Josh Taylor and former unified and lineal lightweight king Teofimo Lopez.

On April 22 at Mohegan Sun Arena, super bantamweight Tramaine Williams of New Haven, CT, faces Oklahoma City’s Elijah Pierce in the 10-round main event for while Stamford, CT, super welterweight Chordale Booker battles Daniel Aduku of Accra, Ghana, in the eight-round co-main event.