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Alejandro Meneses claimed the vacant IBO super-lightweight title as he battered Sam Maxwell to defeat in the ninth round of a thriller on Probellum’s show in Liverpool.
Rocky Fielding, the former WBA super middleweight champion, showed he still has ambition in the sport as he stopped Timo Laine, of Finland, in the third round of Probellum’s show in Liverpool.
Tyson Fury says he believes that Dillian Whyte is “fearless” and says there is no point trying to get under his skin. Fury and Whyte were cordial when they met at the final press conference for this Saturday’s WBC heavyweight title fight at Wembley Stadium.
Tyson Fury has denied that he ever paid any money to Daniel Kinahan and says the decision by the US Treasury to put $5 million bounty on the Irishman’s head has not proved a distraction ahead of Fury’s WBC heavyweight title defense against Dillian Whyte.
Eddie Hearn admitted he has little interest in putting Conor Benn in with either European welterweight champion David Avanesyan or WBA “regular” champion Eimantas Stanionis, as the pair are just not well known enough.
Jason Cunningham made a successful second defence of his European super-bantamweight title as he knocked down Terry Le Couviour three times with body punches before stopping him in the sixth round in Telford.
If Chris Van Heerden was a step up for Conor Benn, he was dealt with in the same way as Benn has treated tests put in front of him before as he was crushed in just two rounds in Manchester.
Chris Billam-Smith settled any arguments from his first meeting with Tommy McCarthy last year as he knocked out the Irishman in the eighth round of their Commonwealth and European cruiserweight title fight in Manchester.
Alycia Baumgardner came through a routine first defense of her WBC super-featherweight title with a shutout win over Edith Soledad Matthysse, of Argentina, on the Benn-Van Heerden bill in Manchester.
Jordan Thompson blasted out Mariano Angel Gudino, of Argentina, with a peach of a right uppercut in the second round of their cruiserweight eight-rounder on the Benn-Van Heerden bill in Manchester.