Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez is now a two-division world champion as he claimed the vacant WBO flyweight crown with a twelve-round unanimous decision over Cristian Gonzalez. The bout was competitive and Bam took a bit more damage than expected but came away with the end goal of being a world champion.

The night’s main event saw Mohamed Soumaoro (13-1) put in a dominating performance over Angel Vazquez (12-1). Soumaoro started the stronger, having Vazquez in serious trouble in the opening moments.  Vazquez did well to put some sort of combinations together to keep Soumaoro at bay, however the Guinean continued to land uppercuts and tucking

Joe Smith Jr. – World Champion Sometimes it is easier being doubted, than it is to be the favorite. Joe Smith Jr. is now a world-champion, but winning his first world title, the WBO light heavyweight title to be exact, was about as easy as it was for him to

Badou deserves praise, Stevenson at the end In probably the most interesting bout of the weekend, Badou Jack fought to a twelve round draw with Adonis Stevenson in which Stevenson retained his WBC light heavyweight title despite essentially losing six straight rounds after a solid start. Jack, who lost essentially

Former two-division world champion Danny “Swift” Garcia shook his lone career defeat by knocking out Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios in the main event of a Showtime telecast promoted by Mayweather Promotions taking place from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.   In a fairly competitive fight that saw

WBC and IBF female super middleweight champion Claressa Shields retained her world titles with a one-sided, lackluster ten round unanimous decision over Tori Nelson on Friday night at the Turning Stone Resort in Verona, NY.   Shields dominated every minute of every round, but left a strangely unsatisfying feeling when

WBA super world super welterweight champion Erislandy Lara (25-2-2 14KOs) outpointed former 2012 U.S. Olympian Terrell Gausha (20-1 9KOs) in the main event of a card in front of roughly 8,000 people at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, broadcast worldwide by Showtime. Lara was too skilled for Gausha

Mexican southpaw bantamweight Luis Nery (24-0, 18 KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career by capturing the WBC bantamweight belt when he battered and bruised Shinsuke Yamanaka (27-1-2, 19 KOs) forcing Yamanaka’s corner to stop the fight on Tuesday in Kyoto, Japan. Nery put pressure on Yamanaka and by

Making the first defense of his WBC Super Featherweight Championship, Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) knocked down Takashi Miura (31-4-2, 24 KOs) in the first round before rolling to a clear-cut unanimous decision victory in the 12-round main event of HBO Boxing After Dark live from Los Angeles’ “Fabulous” Forum. VIPs for the

The Fight It was just like all the other fights Andre Ward has had prior as somehow critics, writers and fans all seemingly intertwined into two opinions of group think via the power of social media. Some took aim at discrediting Andre Ward’s eighth round TKO victory over Sergey Kovalev