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LIVE STREAM: Frank Warren Announces Big Tripleheader

•Aug 17, 2015

Frank Warren will hold a press conference later today, when he officially announced a three fight championship doubleheader featuring Andy Lee's WBO world middleweight fight against mandatory challenger Billy Joe Saunders. The press conference will start 1PM UK time, 8AM EST and 5AM PST. The bout, due to take place in Lee's hometown of Limerick on September 19, has been postponed until October 10 because the 31-year-old champion is suffering from a virus.

Flanagan-Magdaleno, Smith-Soro in Play for 10/10?

Steve Kim

•Aug 12, 2015

Multiple sources have informed BoxingScene.com that newly crowned WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan could soon be defending his belt against Diego Magdaleno, who is rated number one by that organization. This fight would take place on October 10th in Manchester, England.

Michel Soro Blasts Blandamura To Capture EBU Belt

Alexey Sukachev

•Jun 20, 2015

Italy - Michel Soro (27-1, 17 KOs) followed up his biggest career win (the fourth-round road TKO over American Glen Tapia a month ago) with another demolition and now his biggest title. This time a hard-hitting Frenchman ventured a move up in weight to knock out Italian veteran Emanuele Blandamura (23-2, 5 KOs) and to seize a vacant EBU middleweight title.

Michel Soro Wants To Challenge For The EBU Title Next

Victor Salazar

•May 13, 2015

Michel Soro (26-1-1, 16 KO’s) came into last Friday’s junior middleweight contest an underdog and fighting in his opponent, Glen Tapia’s backyard in Newark, New Jersey. After not throwing much in the 1st round, Soro took over and eventually knocking out his opponent in an upset victory. For Soro the game plan was to see what Tapia had in the 1st round and then to start attacking. “A fight lasts 10 rounds, the 1st round I knew that after it, he would get tired,” Soro told BoxingScene.com. “After the end of the 1st, he was getting into the fight and I was starting to get in the fight and then we hurt and we finished him, my killer instinct kicked in.”

Glen Tapia Reflects On TKO Loss and Weight Issues

Victor Salazar

•May 10, 2015

Glen Tapia (23-2, 15 KOs) suffered the second setback of his career this past Friday when he was stopped by Michel Soro. The day before Tapia had issues making the 154 initially failing to make the weight. He came back hours later to the scale and made the limit. After his performance on Friday, Tapia admits that the weight was a problem and it made him feel sluggish. “I felt slow and sluggish,” Tapia said to BoxingScene.com. “I’m throwing roundhouse punches. Even though I won the 1st round and felt slow. I felt sluggish when I got here. It was in the back of my mind a little bit from the day before.”

Video: Michel Soro Breaks Down His TKO of Glen Tapia

BoxingScene Staff

•May 9, 2015

Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey - Bill "Two Scoops" Emes catches up with Michel Soro (26-1-1, 15 KO’s) of France to discuss his fourth round stoppage victory over Glen Tapia (23-2, 15 KO’s) in their TruTV televised main event. The “Jersey Boy” started strong in the first two rounds, but then Soro started taking over with accurate punches in the third round and then badly hurt by a big right hand in the fourth, which allowed Soro to unload with more shots to get the TKO win. Soro talks about the game plan that he used to get the victory, making Tapia expend his punches in the early rounds to take him out as the fight played out, Tapia struggling to make the division limit, watching Tapia getting tired by the third round, whether or not he felt overlooked as he was coming into the contest, and more.

Video: Glen Tapia Very Emotional After TKO Defeat

BoxingScene Staff

•May 9, 2015

Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey - Bill "Two Scoops" Emes catches up with Glen Tapia (23-2, 15 KO’s) to discuss his fourth round stoppage loss to Michel Soro (26-1-1, 15 KO’s) of France in their TruTV televised main event. The “Jersey Boy” started strong in the first two rounds, but then Soro started taking over with accurate punches in the third round and then badly hurt by a big right hand in the fourth, which allowed Soro to unload with more shots to get the TKO win. Tapia talks about his struggles to make the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds and whether or not he might now move up to the middleweight limit of 160-pounds, what's next for his career, potentially taking some time off from boxing and more.

Michel Soro Drills Glen Tapia With Vicious TKO

Victor Salazar

•May 8, 2015

Prudential Center, Newark, NJ - Maryland’s Mike Reed (14-0, 8 KOs) defeated Puerto Rico’s Osenohad Vazquez (8-4-1, 3 KOs) by a second round TKO in a Jr. Welterweight contest. Stalking with the double jam and straight left to the body. Reed hurt Vazquez with a right hook that had Vazquez on the ropes early. Reed continued the assault throwing combinations throughout the round forcing Harvey Dock to tell the corner if Vazquez didn’t thrown in the second it would be over. Vazquez lasted two minutes in the second round before suffering a barrage of hooks and a straight left that knocked his head back forcing Harvey dock to stop the contest a 2:00 of the second round.

Michel Soro Sure Fight Against Glen Tapia Ends In KO

Keith Idec

•May 8, 2015

NEWARK, N.J. – The last time Michel Soro traveled from France to the United States for a fight, he had to settle for a majority draw with undefeated middleweight prospect Antoine Douglas. Soro is sure he defeated Douglas (17-0-1, 11 KOs) in that 10-round middleweight match July 25 in Verona, N.Y. He doesn’t expect his return to America to end similarly when he faces Glen Tapia on Friday night in a 10-round junior middleweight fight at Newark’s Prudential Center (TruTV, 10 p.m. ET), about 15 minutes from Tapia’s hometown of Passaic, N.J.

Photos/Weights: Tapia-Soro, Monaghan-Conceicao

Boxing Photos

•May 7, 2015

NEWARK -- It is Fight Week for local favorites and Top-10 contenders GLEN "Jersey Boy" TAPIA and "Irish" SEANIE MONAGHAN. Both fighters will headline an action-packed boxing card on Friday, May 8, televised live from Prudential Center in Newark, NJ on MetroPCS Friday Night Knockout on truTV, beginning at 10 p.m. ET. The live boxing series is presented by truTV and Top Rank®, and produced in association with HBO Sports®. Photos by Mikey Williams/Top Rank.