Three high-stakes matchups featuring former world champions, top contenders and rising future champions have been added to the highly anticipated SHOWTIME PPV event headlined by Canelo Álvarez and Caleb “Sweethands” Plant battling for the undisputed...
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Devin Haney remains on the hunt for his next title defense while the last two opponents he has expected to fight are instead ordered to face each other. Four mandatory title fights and eliminators were revealed by the World Boxing Council (WBC) as ei...
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Gary Russell Jr. is set for his annual title defense. The longest active-reigning male titlist in the sport today is set to next face Rey Vargas (34-0, 22KOs), with the two sides avoiding a purse bid hearing for their ordered WBC featherweight title...
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Mexico's Rey Vargas explained that it wasn't easy to leave in the hands of someone else the super bantamweight title of the World Boxing Council that he defended five times. However, the injury he suffered to his foot helped Vargas detach himself a l...
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The next fight in the career of long-reigning featherweight titlist Gary Russell Jr. could come against the division’s latest entrant. Rey Vargas has been named as the mandatory challenger to the World Boxing Council (WBC) featherweight title, offici...
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Luis Nery gets his long-craved shot at a second major title, although it comes with a pre-filled calendar. The World Boxing Council (WBC) approved Tijuana’s Nery—its current mandatory contender at junior featherweight—to challenge for the now-vacant...
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Focused on new projects and without neglecting the necessary training in the gym, undefeated WBC world super bantamweight champion Rey Vargas says he is ready to return to the ring whenever Premier Boxing Champions [PBC] tells him to.
WBO super bantamweight champion Emanuel Navarrete wants to take on the world's best fighters at any weight, and is willing to hold on at 122 pounds, although he agrees that he has a hard time securing the right opportunities to make a unifying fight...
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The blessing that came with Daniel Roman’s untimely injury was two-fold. Ideally, the streaking junior featherweight would have preferred to proceed with his mandatory title defense versus Murodjon Akhamdaliev as originally planned only to suffer ten...
Rey Vargas is ready to resume his career—just under new management. The long-reigning undefeated junior featherweight titlist is in advanced talks to sign a multi-fight agreement with Premier Boxing Champions (PBC), two sources with intimate knowledg...
Rey Vargas and Julio Cesar Martinez are free to continue with their respective boxing careers. The pair of Mexico-based boxers tested positive for Clenbuterol, through testing recently conducted by the World Boxing Council Clean Boxing Program (WBC C...
The super bantamweight champion of the World Boxing Organization, Emanuel 'Vaquero' Navarrete, did not rule out a fourth defense of his belt in December, and he said he was hopeful that it will be a unification against WBC champion Rey Vargas, who wa...
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