
Swan sung: Pioneer Cecilia Braekhus wins unified titles in final fight
Cecilia Braekhus put a bow on her Hall of Fame career Saturday in outpointing Ema Kozin in Lillestrom, Norway, to win unified junior middleweight titles.
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Cecilia Braekhus put a bow on her Hall of Fame career Saturday in outpointing Ema Kozin in Lillestrom, Norway, to win unified junior middleweight titles.

Compubox box stats from Bruce Carrington's win in four rounds against Bernard Torres

Fighters are normally confident. That isn’t surprising. They work essentially their entire lives to reach the top of the mountain. The ultimate goal, of course, is to win a world title, rake in loads of money, and for those who are a bit more ambitious, become a pound-for-pound star and a Hall of Famer.

O’Shaquie Foster needed to strip naked to make weight on his second attempt Thursday afternoon at Madison Square Garden. The WBC super featherweight champion is confident, though, that Abraham Nova will be the fighter pushed to his limit in their 12-round, 126-pound title fight Friday night. Foster (21-2, 12 KOs), of Orange, Texas, officially weighed in at 130 pounds for their 12-round, 130-pound championship clash in The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Nova (23-1, 16 KOs), of Albany, New York, stepped on the New York State Athletic Commission’s scale at 129 pounds on his first attempt.

Bruce Carrington’s confidence encouraged the promising prospect to believe that he is ready for any of boxing’s featherweight champions merely 10 fights into his professional career.

Belgian fighter Bilal Laggoune (26-5-2) had signed a contract to fight Danish star Kem Ljungquist (16-0) on March 9 in Copenhagen, with the vacant WBA Intercontinental super cruiserweight at stake.

Two rising talents are set to put their perfect records on the line as part of the ESPN-televised tripleheader headlined by the WBC junior lightweight showdown between reigning champ O’Shaquie “Ice Water” Foster and Abraham “El Super” Nova on Friday, Feb. 16 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

Norwegian featherweight Bernard Torres (18-1) headlined Norway Box Promotion's show at the Chateau Neuf on June 9 and scored an important win as he outscored Tanzanian veteran Nasibu Ramadhani (33-18-2) over ten.

23-year old French heavyweight prospect Wilfried Florentin (3-0) was shot to death in Paris on Sunday morning, reports Le Parisien. The exact circumstances around his death are still being investigated but it appears that there was a brawl and Florentin was shot twice and died in the hospital.

Norwegian cruiserweight "King '' Kai Robin Havnaa (18-0) knocked out Egyptian Hany Atiyo (an inflated 18-8) 1.12 into the third round of scheduled eight-rounder that headlined Norway Box Promotion's show at a sold out Chateu Neuf in Oslo.