Cristofer Rosales: record, next fight and profile →
UMAR SADIQ wants to face English super-middleweight champion Darryll Williams in his fourth professional ?ght. Both men are in action on Saturday’s big bill at London’s o2 Arena, but will only be sharing the dressing room corridor on this occasion. Sadiq, 30, who gave up a lucrative accountancy career to box professionally will be having his third professional ?ght, but is in a rush to face his fellow Londoner.
Carl Frampton will realise a career-long dream when he defends his WBO Interim World Featherweight Title against Luke Jackson on the pitch at Windsor Park, Belfast, on August 18, on a card that also features Paddy Barnes challenging for the WBC World Flyweight title and the second fight of Tyson Fury on the comeback trail.
Paddy Barnes will get a world title crack when he returns. The former WBO European flyweight champion has been out of action since last November. Barnes will be back between the ropes on August 18, however, and will feature alongside long-time friend Carl Frampton. Frampton, the WBO interim featherweight champion, will headline at Belfast’s Windsor Park, exclusively live on BT Sport, when he defends his title against Australia’s number five-rated WBO Oriental champion Luke Jackson.
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO- Three-time former world champion Roman "Rocky" Martinez (29-3-3, 17 KOs) will return to the ring on Friday, June 1 in Barranquilla Colombia, in a 10 round bout in what will be his first professional fight at 135 pounds.
Rosales, Higa Fight Photos Gallery - Cristofer Rosales of Nicaragua on Sunday secured the WBC flyweight belt by beating Japan's Daigo Higa, who the previous day had given up his title for failing to make the weight.
Ryota Murata’s pressure was too much for Emanuele Blandamura. Japan’s Murata stalked Italy’s Blandamura throughout their bout until stopping him in the eighth round of their WBA middleweight title fight Sunday in Yokohama, Japan.