Kell Brook to defend IBF strap against Spence Jr on May 20

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Britain’s Kell Brook will defend his IBF world welterweight title against American Errol Spence Jr in Brook’s home city Sheffield England on May 20.

27 year-old Spence Jr was a former 2012 Olympian and now the mandatory challenger for Brook’s IBF strap. He is unbeaten with the record of  21 wins with 18 knockouts. Spence Jr’s most significant career victories were his 5th round knock out of Chris Algieri and his 6th round TKO win over Leonard Bundu.

Brook (36-1, 25 KO) will be defending his belt for the first time since a March 2016 win over Kevin Bizier, his last mandatory challenger, Brook will defend his IBF strap for the fourth time though he move up in weight to fight Gennady Golovkin in September, a fight that ended with Brook stopped due to an injury to his orbital bone.

Busy weekend for Boxing Fans!

Weekend will deliver multiple exciting match ups for boxing fans!

January 28 (29 Manila Time)

at Fantasy Springs Casino Resort in Indio California

Two Mexican warriors will battle for WBC Super featherweight crown in a highly anticipated bout. The defending champion Francisco “El Bandido” Vargas (23-0-2,17) will try his best to defend his title against WBO interim Super featherweight champion Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt (30-1,27).

Both Mexican warrior are well known for their all out performance so the fans are expecting fire works for this fight.

In the undercard hard hitter Japanese Takashi Miura (30-3-2,23) and tough Mexican Miguel Roman (56-11,43) will fight in a 12 rounds WBC Superfeatherweight title eliminator. The winner of this fight will have a chance to get a title shot and will face the winner of Vargas-Berchelt showdown.

January 28 (29 Manila Time)

at MGM Grand in Las Vegas Nevada

Showtime will air world title triple header this weekend. Unbeaten WBA “Super” World featherweight champion Carl “The Jackal” Frampton (23-0, 14 KOs) and former three-division world champion Leo “El Terremoto” Santa Cruz (32-1-1, 18 KOs) will meet again in a world title rematch.

In undercard WBC World lightweight champion Monte Negro’s Dejan “Dynamite” Zlaticanin (22-0,15) will make his first world title defense against  Mickey Garcia (35-0,29) who will attempt to become a 3 divisional world champion.

Fight card will also feature UK’s IBF Featherweight world champ Lee Selby (23-1,8) vs Argentinean Jonathan Victor Barros (41-4-1,22) with Selby’s title at stake. 

DeGale vs Jack Unification and Pedraza vs Davis set for January 14

WBC and IBF Super middleweight World unification title match between WBC champ Badou Jack (20-1-2,12) and IBF champion and James Degale (23-1-1,14) is set on January 14 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

In the co-main event Jose Pedraza (20-0,12) of Puerto Rico will be making third title defense of his IBF Superfeatherweight World title against fellow unbeaten Gervonta Davis (16-0,15). These Double header world championship fight will be televised by Showtime.

                     

London’s DeGale won the IBF world title by beating beating Andre Dirrell in May. 30 year-old DeGale represented Great Britain at the 2008 Olympics, winning a gold medal in the middleweight division. He became the first ever British boxer to have won both an Olympic gold medal and a professional world title.

Jack promoted by Floyd Mayweather Jr last fight was a controversial split draw against Lucian Bute in April. Badou Jack was knockout in the first round by Derek Edwards in February 14th but bounce back strong to score four fight winning strict including his Majority decision win over Anthony Dirrell to capture the WBC Super middleweight world title.

Canelo Alvarez vs Liam Smith- Tale of the Tape

On September 17 former WBC Middleweight world champion Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (47-1,33) will challenge the reigning and defending WBO Superwelterweight world champion Liam “Beefy” Smith (23-0-1,13) unbeaten champion from United Kingdom. The fight will be held in AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas. 

Take a look at two fighters tale of the tape. Photo courtesy of Boxingscene.com

Weights from Brooklyn NY

WBA Featherweight World Championship between Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton haedlines Showtime Boxing Chamionship tripleheader Tomorrow Live On SHOWTIME® From Barclays Center In Brooklyn.

WBA Featherweight Championship -12 Rounds

                                                    Leo Santa Cruz – 125 ½ lbs.
                                                    Carl Frampton – 125 ¼ lbs.
                        
                                        Superlightweight non-title bout – 10 Rounds
                                                   Mikey Garcia – 138 lbs.
                                                   Elio Rojas – 139 lbs.

                           

                                     IBF Jr Middleweight title eliminator- 12 Rounds 

                                                Tony Harrison – 153 ½ lbs.

                                             Sergey Rabchenko – 153 ½ lbs.

                         

                          

                                       Welterweight non-title bout- 10 rounds

                                              Paulie Malignaggi – 146 ½ lbs.

                                              Gabriel Bracero – 148 lbs.

                      

                       

                                           Lightweight non-title bout- 10 rounds

                                                  Ivan Redkach– 135 ¼ lbs.

                                                  Tevin Farmer – 134 ½ lbs.

photo courtesy of Showtime Boxing/Amanda Westcott

Sor Singyu vs Tapales, Santa Cruz vs Frampton, more: Boxing Schedule for July 27-30

Leo Santa Cruz vs Carl Frampton

Wednesday, July 27
Puangluang Sor Singyu vs Marlon Tapales

Filipino Marlon “Nightmare” Tapales (28-2,11) will try to stop the Filipino executioner  Puangluang Sor Singyu (52-3,35) 20 fights winning streak and will also try his best to bring  the WBO Bantamweight world title to the Philippines. The fight will be held in Ayutthaya in Thailand. ALA Promotions will bring Tapales in whatever will be outcome of the fight and will add Tapales to Pagara brothers, Magsayo and Nietes under their promotion.

Friday July 29
Jack Asis vs Malcolm Klassen

Australia based-Filipino Jack “Assassin” Asis (35-18-5,18) will defend his IBO Superfeatherweight world title against Malcolm”Stone” Klassen (32-6-2,17) at Johannesburg, Gauteng in S.Africa. This is Asis’ first title defense since he won the title last April 2015 in a hard fight of the year candidate against Kye McKenzie. Klassen is a two time IBF world champion after losing it to Robert Guerrero on 2009.

Friday July 29

Adonis Stevenson vs Thomas Willims Jr.

Hatian born-Canadian Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (27-1,22) will defend his title for the seventh time against Thomas “Top Dog” Williams (20-1,14) of Mary land USA as the main event of PBC on Spike at Centre Videotron Quebec City in Quebec, Canada. Stevenson’s mega fight with Kovalev is still didn’t come to agreement according to him he is waiting for Kovalev-Ward winner that might happen in 2017.

                    

Saturday July 30

Leo Santa Cruz vs Carl Frampton

SHO / BoxNation (UK), 9 p.m. ET, Leo Santa Cruz vs Carl Frampton, Mikey Garcia vs Elio Rojas, Tony Harrison vs Sergey Rabchenko. Santa Cruz-Frampton is, like last weekend’s Crawford-Postol fight, a matchup that people actually want to see, or at least should want to see. Santa Cruz is established at featherweight, where he’s won a world title in a third weight class, while Frampton is coming up from 122, where he held two belts. This one is happening at a great time, each man is still unbeaten, both have been on good runs. Nothing to dislike here. Garcia will be fighting for the first time since January 2014, while Rojas, a former WBC featherweight titleholder, hasn’t fought since August 2014, so nobody should have any advantage there. Harrison-Rabchenko is a really interesting matchup at 154, and could go either way (by Scott Christ of Badlefthook)

Other fights on July 30

First Direct Arena Leeds, Yorkshire in United Kingdom

Television: Argentina TyC Sports, France Canal+ Sport

Josh Warrington vs Patrick Hyland -WBC International featherweight title

Luke Campbell vs Argenis Mendez-vacant WBC Silver lightweight title

Dillian Whyte vs David Allen-vacant WBC International heavyweight title

Tyrone Nurse vs Tommy Coyle-BBBofC British super lightweight title

Gamal Yafai vs Josh Wale-Commonwealth (British Empire) super bantamweight title

Fantasy Springs Casino Indio, California, USA
television USA HBO Latino
Antonio Orozco vs Abner Lopez
Joseph Diaz Jr vs Victor Proa

Carl Frampton-Scott Quigg make Weight for Unification Showdown

The British rivals the IBF World Super bantamweight champ Carl Frampton and the WBA “Super” Super bantamweight World champion Scott Quigg made weight at Manchester Arena for their long-awaited super bantamweight unification this Feb. 27, live on SHO EXTREME at 5:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Carl Frampton weighed-in at 121.7 lbs. and WBA champ Scott Quigg weighed in at  121.6 lbs.

“I made the weight easy,The check-weight was on point. I did it easier than I’ve ever done it. said Frampton(21-0, 14 KOs)

“I respect him as a fighter, but the best Carl Frampton can’t touch the best Scott Quigg,” said Quigg (32-0-2, 23 KOs)

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PACMAN FAN! Flanagan stopped Magdaleno! ROUND 2 TKO! Retains his WBO Lightweight Title!

Terry “TURBO” Flanagan

Flanagan made quick work on this one and Magdaleno looked awkward. Flanagan delivered 3 knockdowns before the referee stepped in to stop the fight. The first knock down was a counter right hook to the face and looked like it was just a stinger. Magdaleno stood up but the beautiful left upper cut and a right hook with a flurry of punches sent the challenger Magdaleno to the canvas again. The Third knockdown looked like Magdaleno is just fighting out of instinct but Flanagan didn’t gave him any room as the referee stopped the bout at the 2:38 mins of round 2.

With the win Flanagan improved to 29 wins 12 KO no defeats. Magdaleno suffered his first stoppage, its quite weird because the stance of Magdaleno is too wide he actually slipped twice before the combination

Here is a replay of the full fight:

Hopefully it wont be removed:

Written by:

Aldrin C.

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