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The official weigh-in for Saturday’s WBO World Jr. Lightweight championship fight between champion Vasyl Lomachenko and former WBA World Featherweight champion Nicholas Walters took place on Friday in Las Vegas, NV. The official weights for the entire card are as follows.                                   Main Event: WBO Jr. Lightweight world championship – 12Rds.                             Vasyl Lomachenko (Champion) 130lbs.  vs. Nicholas Walters 129 1/2lbs. Light-Heavyweight – 8Rds. Donovan George 175lbs.   vs.  Trevor McCumby 172 1/4lbs. Jr. Welterweight – 6Rds. Maxim Dadashev 140 1/4lbs. vs. Efrain Cruz 140 1/4lbs. Jr. Middleweight – 8Rds. ...

The world Light-Heavyweight championship fight between undefeated unified WBO/WBA/IBF world champion Sergey Kovalev and undefeated former Super-Middleweight world champion Andre Ward had all the makings of a great fight. An encounter between a champion in Kovalev who had established himself as one of the sport’s feared knockout artists having scored knockouts in twenty-six of thirty-one previous professional fights registering a career knockout percentage of over 80%, and a former world champion in Ward who was seeking his second world championship in as many weight classes and one might argue vindication as one of the best fighters pound for pound in the world following a lengthy period of inactivity due to a well-publicized promotional dispute with his former promoter the late Dan Goossen, which caused Ward to be inactive as a fighter for nearly two years between 2013 and 2015. Although Ward had remained unbeaten in three bouts since his return to the ring in June 2015, he had...

We would like to let our readers know that a feature examining the recent unified Light-Heavyweight championship fight between champion Sergey Kovalev and former Super-Middleweight champion Andre Ward is in the works and will be released on Wednesday, November 23rd.  Stay Tuned. “And That’s The Boxing Truth.” The Boxing Truth® is a registered trademark of Beau Denison All Rights Reserved. Follow Beau Denison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Beau_Denison

The official weigh-in for Saturday’s Light-Heavyweight clash between undefeated unified WBO/IBF/WBA Light-Heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev and undefeated former Super-Middleweight world champion Andre Ward took place on Friday in Las Vegas, NV. The official weights for the entire card are as follows. Pay-Per View Card: Main Event: WBO/IBF/WBA Light-Heavyweight world championship – 12Rds. Sergey Kovalev (Champion) 175lbs.  vs.        Andre Ward 175lbs. North-American Boxing Federation (NABF) Light-Heavyweight championship – 10Rds. Oleksandr Gvozdyk (Champion) 174 3/4lbs. vs.        Isaac Chilemba 174 3/4lbs. WBC Continental-Americas Middleweight championship – 10Rds. Curtis Stevens (Champion) 157 1/2lbs.        vs.        James De La Rosa 159 3/4lbs. North-American Boxing Organization (NABO) Jr. Welterwe...

Photo Credit: JAB Latino Promotions/Majestic Raven Entertainment Press Release: November 14, 2016 Houston, Texas-  JAB Latino Promotions will be putting on their first boxing card November 19 th  at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds in Rosenberg, Texas. The main event will feature Houstonian Josue Morales as he is set to face Mexico’s Fernando Saavedra for the American Boxing Organization’s Bantamweight title. In the co-main event features Jose “Canelito” Garcia as he takes on Chris Faz in lightweight action.                                                                              ...

The recent battle between WBO Welterweight world champion Jessie Vargas and future Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao was in some ways treated as an afterthought by some Boxing fans. This was partly due to some feeling that the champion Vargas was a significant underdog, despite winning his world championship in his last fight prior to the encounter with Pacquiao in scoring a ninth round stoppage over previously undefeated contender Sadam Ali in March of this year. Pacquiao meanwhile came into the fight off of a recent retirement following his second victory in his trilogy with two-division world champion Timothy Bradley this past April. Following that fight, Pacquiao was elected as a senator in his native Philippines. Although Pacquiao, a former eight- division world champion has more than secured his place in any Hall of Fame associated with the sport of Boxing, his decision to return to the ring following his retirement was not surprising. After all, when the name Manny Pacqu...

We would like to let our readers know that material discussing the recent WBO World Welterweight championship fight between Jessie Vargas and future Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao is in the works and will be released on Friday, November 11th. Stay tuned. “And That’s The Boxing Truth.” The Boxing Truth® is a registered trademark of Beau Denison All Rights Reserved. Follow Beau Denison on Twitter: www.twitter.com/Beau_Denison