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Japan’s Kenichi Ogawa parlayed three knockdowns to a world championship, as he won the vacant IBF junior lightweight title with a 12-round unanimous decision over South Africa’s Azinga Fuzile.
Hulu Theater, Madison Square Garden, New York City - Unbeaten up and comer Raymond Ford got a fight from Felix Caraballo, but the New Jersey product ultimately broke down and stopped the gutsy Puerto Rican in the eighth round to retain his WBA Continental Americas featherweight title.
In the bantamweight opener at MSG's Hulu Theater, debuting Anthony Herrera scored a second-round TKO over fellow debutant Jonathan Herrera.
By Thomas Gerbasi - No one would blame George Kambosos Jr. if he had a few doubts in his head right about now, days ahead of his challenge for Teofimo Lopez Jr.’s lightweight belts this Saturday at Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater.
On a Zoom call this week, Marco Antonio Barrera did not look like someone about to get into a fistfight on Saturday night. “It's an exhibition, and we're also not dealing with weight, so I'm pretty relaxed,” laughed the Hall of Famer, who will travel to the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort & Casino in Mescalero, New Mexico to face Daniel Ponce de Leon in an exhibition bout that headlines a card presented by Teresa Tapia in the state her late husband Johnny put on the boxing map during his storied career. In fact, it was when Teresa contacted Barrera that he decided to lace the gloves up again at 47.
By Thomas Gerbasi - After her husband Johnny passed away in 2012, Teresa Tapia thought she was out of the boxing business. Until she was back in. And it just didn’t feel right. “It was probably around 2019 and I remember being at a fight - actually it was Austin Trout who I was promoting at the time, and we were doing a reality show on The Impact Network and what nobody knew was that I would go to my room and I would just cry because it just felt so weird without Johnny.”
By Thomas Gerbasi - A year ago, Gabriel Rosado was preparing for the fight that many believed would be his swan song as a professional fighter. He was 34, with a lot of wear on the tires, and with a 2-3-1 record in his previous six fights, few gave him a shot at beating former world champion Daniel Jacobs on November 27, 2020.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Caleb Plant never has to fight again after Saturday night. Win or lose against “Canelo” Alvarez, the Tennessee native can walk out of the MGM Grand Garden Arena with a check in the reported neighborhood of ten million dollars and never throw a punch for pay for the rest of his life. And at 29, there’s a lot of life left for Plant.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Headlining the O2 Arena in London in a junior welterweight title unification bout against Mary McGee this Saturday is a position WBC champion Chantelle Cameron never thought she would be in. What’s going on is that the 30-year-old from Northampton is two wins away from getting all the belts at 140 pounds, with a victory over IBF champion McGee setting herself up to face the...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The apprenticeship is over for Xander Zayas. With a co-main event slot against Dan Karpency on Saturday’s Jamel Herring-Shakur Stevenson card at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, the 19-year-old has reached the point where there’s no going backwards. It’s only onward and upward for the frontrunner for 2021 Prospect of the Year, and he’s not complaining.