
Cherneka Johnson stops Shurretta Metcalf to earn undisputed at 118
Six weeks ago, Cherneka Johnson could only dream of challenging another titleholder for the undisputed bantamweight championship. On Friday, she held all four belts.
Ramla Ali: record, next fight and profile →

Six weeks ago, Cherneka Johnson could only dream of challenging another titleholder for the undisputed bantamweight championship. On Friday, she held all four belts.

The IBF super-middleweight champion Savannah Marshall is to fight Shadasia Green, the WBO titlist, on the undercard of Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano III on July 11

Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) today announced they had bolstered their stable by signing Denmark’s reigning unified bantamweight champion Dina Thorslund, the Somali-British boxer Ramla Ali, Costa Rica’s 20-year-old undefeated flyweight world champion Naomy Valle and former amateur starlet Nat “No Love”' Dove.

Women's boxing historian Malissa Smith offered her perspective on Saudi Arabia’s growing influence in the sport and its implications for female fighters as the country prepares to host another bout featuring women on October 12.

Skye Nicolson and Raven Chapman aren’t the first pro women boxers to compete in Saudi Arabia — that was Ramla Ali’s knockout of Crystal Garcia Nova in 2022 — but Nicolson’s upcoming bout with Chapman will be the first-ever women’s title fight in the kingdom.


Ramla Ali, the 2020 Somalian Olympian, will vie for her inaugural world title this Saturday at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, where she faces WBC junior featherweight champion Yamileth Mercado.

Yamileth Mercado will defend her WBC junior featherweight title against Ramla Ali at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 29.

Ramla Ali (9-1, 2 KO’s) got tonight’s action underway in Monaco by producing a career best performance to outpoint Julissa Alejandra Guzman (13-3-2, 7 KO’s) in their super bantamweight rematch.

Joe Cordina was not only noticeably taller, but a pound heavier than Edward Vazquez when they stepped on the scale Friday afternoon in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Cordina came in a 129.9 pounds for his first defense of the IBF junior lightweight title he won for the second time in his last fight.