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The WBO’s latest ratings update includes four new fighters who have been named the number-one contenders in their respective divisions.
Hamzah Sheeraz: record, next fight and profile →

The WBO’s latest ratings update includes four new fighters who have been named the number-one contenders in their respective divisions.

Official negotiations between unified middleweight titleholder Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz have been extended by the World Boxing Organization, the WBO announced Thursday.

Liam Williams, a former two-weight world title challenger, is retiring from boxing at the age of 32, having grown increasingly concerned about concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain condition linked to repeated blows to the head.

We tackle your thoughts on a fight that has just been announced (David Benavidez-David Morrell), one that’s being imagined (Nick Ball-Naoya Inoue), one that has been ordered (Janibek Alimkhanuly-Hamzah Sheeraz) and one that should have happened (Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua).

The WBO has called for negotiations between unified middleweight titleholder Janibek Alimkhanuly and Hamzah Sheeraz to begin

Hamzah Sheeraz’s second-round TKO of Tyler Denny Saturday clinches his position as the “nightmare” and “big giant” of the middleweight division, a gathering of fighters that has lacked star power since Gennadiy Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez moved on.

Hamzah Sheeraz dropped Tyler Denny twice and stopped him in the second round, swiping his EBU European middleweight title Saturday on the Daniel Dubois-Anthony Joshua undercard Saturday at London's Wembley Stadium.

Fresh off a second-round knockout of Tyler Denny on Saturday at London's Wembley Stadium, middleweight Hamzah Sheeraz claims he's ready to get rid of anyone put before him.

CompuBox punch stats: Hamzah Sheeraz-Tyler Denny

Hamzah Sheeraz captured the European middleweight title with a two-round blowout of Tyler Denny.