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New York - A title fight was officially announced earlier today between WBO Jr. Lightweight champion Roman ‘Rocky’ Martinez (29-2-3, 17 KO’s) and Vasyl Lomachenko (5-1, 3 KO’s).
New York - Former IBF welterweight world champion Shawn Porter is getting the big fight he's longed for since defeating Adrien Broner in June of last year. Even after a postponement due to an injury to his opponent, WBA welterweight world champion Keith Thurman, the two will battle it out on June 25th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Showtime will televise.
New York - Keith Thurman (26-0, 22 KO’s) made a statement to the media on hand - and to his opponent Shawn Porter (26-1-, 16 KO’s) - about their fight on June 25th on Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Thurman told Porter, “I love you bro, but on June 25th I have to do my best to put you to sleep.”
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya says his intentions are to bring the best and biggest fights to boxing aficionados everywhere. Since taking full control of his company over the past year and a half, De La Hoya
Although Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KO’s) has a fight coming up on May 7th in Las Vegas, where he defends the Lineal and WBC Middleweight title against Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KO’s) at a catch-weight of 155 pounds, much of the talk has been about a mega showdown with Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin (34-0, 31 KO’s).
Brooklyn, New York- The opening bout of the Spence-Algieri off television undercard saw Poland’s Lukazs Maciec (23-3-1, 5 KO’s) decision Jeremy Ramos (9-3, 4 KO’s) over eight rounds in the junior middleweight division. The action began slowly but Maciec started to control the pace of the fight in the fifth round. Maciec’s experience took over as he won a majority decision over the Texan Ramos.
New York, NY- Former junior welterweight world champion Chris Algieri (21-2, 8KOs) has been on the big stage multiple times with some of the biggest names in the sport.
New York, NY - Steve Cunningham tasted the heavyweight waters on multiple occasions after spending the majority of his career at cruiserweight. On April 16th he makes his return to the cruiserweight division when he challenges Krzysztof Glowacki of Poland for the WBO championship, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
With his recent knockout win over unbeaten Sadam Ali, tough welterweight contender Jessie Vargas became a two-division world champion by picking up the vacant WBO welterweight crown.
Dangerous Cuban heavyweight contender Luis Ortiz (25-0-1, 22KOs) is one of three WBA champions is his weight division. Earlier this year, the sanctioning body put together a mandatory tournament to establish a sole heavyweight champion under the World Boxing Association.