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  Women’s WBA Jr. Welterweight world champion  Kali Reis successfully defended her world title with a hard fought ten round majority decision over former WBC Jr. Lightweight world champion Diana Prazak on Friday night at the Sycuan Casino in El Cajon, CA. An extremely competitive fight from the outset, the ebb and flow consisted of Prazak pressing the action and forcing the fight on the inside. Despite the challenger’s aggression, it was Reis who seemed to land the cleaner punches of the two fighters in spots. It did not stop Prazak to rally late in landing some hard hooks to the head of the champion mixed with effective body shots in the latter rounds of the grueling battle, but ultimately Reis’ cleaner offense particularly over the first half of the fight that was enough to convince two of three official judges for the champion to not only retain her WBA world championship, but also leave the fight a unified world champion by adding the vacant IBO Jr. Welterweight world cham...

  The official weigh-in for Saturday’s Welterweight showdown for the WBA Welterweight world championship between Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas, who each hold a claim to the championship, took place earlier today in Las Vegas, NV. Weights for the four-bout pay-per-view card that can be seen in the United States on Fox Sports Pay-Per-View are below.     Main Event: WBA Welterweight World Championship – 12Rds.   Manny Pacquiao 146lbs. vs. Yordenis Ugas 147lbs.   Featherweight – 12Rds.   Julio Ceja 125lbs. vs. Mark Magsayo 125 1/2lbs.   Featherweight – 10Rds.   Carlos Castro 125 1/2lbs. vs. Oscar Escandon 125 3/4lbs.   Welterweight – 10Rds.   Victor Ortiz 148lbs. vs. Robert Guerrero 146 3/4lbs.    Pacquiao vs. Ugas takes place on Saturday, August 21 st  at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The fight can be seen on a pay-per-view basis on  Fox Sports Pay-Per-View  beginning at 9PM ET/6PM PT in the United States ...

    Press Release : By DAZN –  August 18, 2021  – DAZN, the leading global sports streaming platform, has secured exclusive rights to the highly-anticipated heavyweight showdown  on Saturday, September 25  between reigning champion  Anthony Joshua  and former cruiserweight world champion  Oleksandr Usyk  in more than 170 countries and territories worldwide – including all of North America, South America, and Oceania as well as much of Europe, Asia, and Africa. A full list of markets where fans can watch the blockbuster event on DAZN can be found  here .    Credit:DAZN    Unified Heavyweight Champion of the World  Anthony Joshua OBE  will put his IBF, WBA, and WBO World Titles on the line against  Oleksandr Usyk  at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.   “We’re thrilled to continue our strong relationship with Matchroom, Anthony Joshua and his team at 258MGT a...

  Press Release: By FITE -  NEW YORK  –  August 12, 2021  – One of the most talked about sporting events of the summer, the boxing pay-per-view card on Sunday, August 29 featuring a battle between  renowned content creator and undefeated professional boxer  Jake “The Problem Child” Paul  and former MMA world champion  Tyron “The Chosen One” Woodley , is now available for pre-order for viewing in the U.S. in the SHOWTIME app and on the web via SHOWTIME.com. The five-fight telecast will also be available in the U.S. and globally on a variety of digital streaming platforms and via major cable, satellite, and telco providers in the U.S. and Canada. Produced and distributed by SHOWTIME PPV ® , the event begins at a special time of 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, live from Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland.   Paul vs. Woodley is available for purchase now for $59.99 in the SHOWTIME app and via web at  SHOWTIME.com/PPV . All U.S. consumers who ...

  One of the biggest fights on the Boxing calendar in the year 2021 was the Welterweight unification bout between Welterweight world champions Errol Spence and future Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao. What was to be a classic scenario of youth versus experience with the forty-two year old Pacquiao returning to the ring after a lengthy absence due largely to the ongoing global COVID-19 epidemic to challenge a man eleven years younger, who is regarded as the top fighter in the talent-deep division in the eyes of some.   Although Boxing history is full of such encounters, what had become one of the most anticipated fights in recent memory even as the world continues to battle the COVID-19 virus was put on the back burner. Unlike many of the postponements/cancellations that have occurred throughout combat sports as a whole for well over a year now, this cancellation had nothing to do with the COVID-19 virus, but did have to do with something that is also very serious. This observer is...

  Undefeated top-ten rated Light-Heavyweight contender Joshua Buatsi scored a hard- fought eleventh round knockout over Ricards Bolotniks on Saturday night at Matchroom Headquarters in Brentwood, England. In what was billed an an elimination bout for the WBA Light-Heavyweight world championship, the two fighters engaged each other in close quarters from the outset. This scenario saw several exchanges between the two fighters with Buatsi generally getting the better of the action due largely to his edge in hand speed. Bolotniks however, was able to provide Buatsi with a level of resistance that he had not experienced before in being able to extend the fight.    Buatsi dropped Bolotniks with a perfectly timed left hook to the jaw in a short exchange of hooks in round six. Despite going down hard and being hurt, Bolotniks was able to get up from the knockdown, survive the round, and continue to put up a fight in the rounds that followed. In round eight, Buatsi was penalized ...

  The official weigh-in for Saturday’s Boxing card that will conclude the 2021 season of Matchroom Boxing’s Fight Camp series took place earlier today in Brentwood, England. The weights for the entire card, which will take place at Matchroom Headquarters and be broadcast globally by digital subscription sports streaming network  DAZN  are as follows.   Main Event: Light-Heavyweight – 12Rds.   Joshua Buatsi 174 3/4lbs. vs. Ricards Boloniks 174 1/2lbs.   Welterweight – 10Rds.    Michael McKinson 146 1/2lbs. vs. Przemyslaw Runowski 146 1/4lbs.   Featherweight – 10Rds.   Raymond Ford 126lbs. vs. Reece Bellotti 125 1/4lbs.   Bantamweight – 10Rds.   Ukashir Farooq 117 1/2lbs. vs. Luis Castillo 116 1/4lbs.   Jr.Lightweight – 10Rds.   Joe Cordina 134lbs. vs. Joshuah Hernandez 132 3/4lbs.   Lightweight – 8Rds.   Zelfa Barrett 136 1/4lbs. vs. Viorel Simion 139 3/4lbs.   Jr. Featherweight – 6Rds.   Hopey Pric...