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1 week ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Rarely do great fighters meet when they are still in the prime of their careers. There were four great fighters meeting in two matches. The only thing was that the two were former champions and not in their prime. Future world heavyweight champion Rocky ‘The Brockton Blockbuster’ Marciano was 37-0 when he met Joe ‘The Brown Bomber’ Louis, 66-2 with 52 stoppages in October of 1951 at Madison Square Garden.
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1 week ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
IBF World Super Lightweight champion Richardson Hitchins (20-0, 8 KOs) stopped former IBF, WBA, WBO Lightweight champion George ‘Ferocious’ Kambosos, Jr. (22-4, 10 KOs) in the final minute of the eighth round on Saturday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. The fight was halted at 2:33 of the eighth round of a scheduled 12 rounds.
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2 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Super flyweight LeAnna ‘2 Much’ Cruz (11-0, 1 KOs) defeated Regina ‘Rony’ Chavez (8-6-3, 1 KOs) by a 10-round unanimous decision to capture the WBA title in the main event on Friday night at the 2300 Arena, in Philadelphia, PACruz was dropped in the first round, possibly suffering a left knee injury, and later suffered a broken nose. In the first round, a right from Chavez on the chin dropped Cruz for an 8-count from Referee Ricky Gonzalez. Cruz may have a left knee injury after this.
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2 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Let’s look at Japan’s four-division world champion Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue, who is the current IBF, WBC, and WBO world Super Bantamweight champion and possibly the pound-for-pound best in the world. Inoue’s amateur record was 75-6 before turning professional in May of 2012, knocking out the Philippines Crison ‘No Surrender’ Omayao, 16-4-1, in four rounds of a scheduled eight rounds. In his fourth fight, he won the Japanese Light Flyweight title defeating Ryoichi Taguchi, 18-1-1.
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2 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Abdullah Mason (19-0, 17 KOs) defeated Jeremiah ‘Low Key’ Nakathila (26-5, 21 KOs) by a fifth-round technical knockout in a lightweight bout on Saturday night at the Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. In the first two rounds, Mason had a slight edge. In the third round, Mason outlanded Nakathila with countering punches. In the fourth round, Mason rocked Nakathila seconds before the end of the round with a left on the chin.
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2 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Fabio Wardley (19-0-1, 18 KOs), behind on points, knocked out his replacement opponent Justis Huni (12-1, 7 KOs) in the tenth round to capture the WBA interim heavyweight title on Saturday night at Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. The camera panned away while the referee was giving a count to Huni, who appeared to make it to his feet in time, but the fight was still stopped for some reason. The stoppage didn’t sit right with fans on social media, who felt that Huni should have been allowed to continue.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
IBF USA Heavyweight champion Brandon ‘OJ Bam’ Moore (18-1, 10 KOs) won a technical decision over the much shorter Stanley ‘The Black Shogun’ Wright (14-1, 11 KOs) after a cut stopped the fight that happened in the third round due to a clash of heads with a minute remaining in the fifth round on Friday night at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New YorkIn the first round, with a 6” height advantage, Moore used his jab to control the round.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Light heavyweight Albert Ramirez (21-0, 15 KOs) stopped Michael Flannery (13-1, 11 KOs) at 1:09 of the second round of a scheduled 10-round fight on Thursday night at the Montreal Casino, Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. In the first round, Ramirez dropped Flannery with a left on the chin for an 8-count from Referee Junior Padulo. In the second round, Ramirez dropped Flannery with a right uppercut to the chin for an 8-count from Referee Padulo. As Flannery got up, the fight was waved off.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
This writer’s opinion of the two greatest heavyweight champions was Joe ’The Brown Bomber’ Louis and Muhammad ‘The Greatest’ Ali. For all they contributed to boxing, each lost years of their boxing activity. Starting with Louis, whose greatest achievement in boxing was a record twenty-five title defenses. His final record was 66-3 with 52 knockouts. Born in LaFayette, Alabama, as Joe Louis Barrow, he would later fight out of Detroit, Michigan.
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3 weeks ago | 
boxingnews24.com | Ken Hissner
Former IBF World Super Middleweight champion and current WBA interim super middleweight champion Caleb ‘Sweethands’ Plant (23-3, 14 KOs) lost by 12-round split decision to Jose Armando ‘Toro’ Resendiz (16-2, 11 KOs) in the main event on Saturday night at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas. In the first two rounds, Plant outworked Resendiz. In the third round, Resendiz came back well, rocking Plant with a right on the chin. In the fourth, it was close with Resendiz taking it.
