A fight that stood little chance of making its way to the ring is no longer available to the highest bidder. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a purse bid hearing previously scheduled for Tuesday was canceled for the ordered Jose Ramirez-Arnold Barb...
A purse bid date has been assigned for a proposed title eliminator that stands less than a great chance to see the light of day. For the second time this summer, a Jose Ramirez-Arnold Barboza fight has been ordered by a sanctioning body to enter talk...
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Teofimo Lopez Jr. is nearing a return to his regularly scheduled programming. The former unified lightweight champion is coming off a banner win over Josh Taylor in June at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City to become the WBO junio...
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A newly crowned, 25-year-old world champion coming off the second-biggest win of his career has decided against retirement in favor of keeping his title. About a month after insisting that he would retire following his upset of previously undefeated...
Devin Haney requested another 24 hours to consider a path to challenge for the WBO junior welterweight title. The sanctioning body is not having it. An immediate ruling was handed down by the WBO, who declared that the undisputed lightweight king rem...
Teofimo Lopez remains serious about his retirement talk. The two-division lineal champion has severed ties with the WBO junior welterweight title just five days after the 25-year-old boxer dethroned Scotland’s Josh Taylor. Lopez insisted after his se...
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Regis Prograis never got the sense that Top Rank could deliver the fights he wanted the most involving fighters under its own banner. The uncertainty surrounding the future of some of the promotional company’s top 140-pound fighters apparently helped...
The winner of the Josh Taylor-Teofimo Lopez title fight has one less option to worry about for the time being. Back-to-back failed efforts by the World Boxing Organization to produce a sanctioned junior welterweight title eliminator has prompted the...
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Liam Paro will have another shot at the same team who previously bailed on an ordered title eliminator. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the WBO has formally ordered a final junior welterweight elimination bout between Australia’s Paro and former u...
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Liam Paro is already in search of a new opponent. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that unbeaten junior welterweight contender Arnold Barboza will no longer move forward with the ordered WBO junior welterweight title eliminator versus Paro. The developm...
Jose Ramirez insists there is nothing else that will hold up his quest to return to the top of the junior welterweight division. The former unified WBC/WBO titlist posted his second straight win with an eleventh-round knockout of Richard Commey, a pa...
Former unified champ Jose Ramirez has earned another shot at the WBC junior welterweight title. Ramirez (28-1, 18 KOs) returned from a one-year layoff to defeat former lightweight world champion Richard Commey (30-5-1, 27 KOs) via 11th-round knockout...
Jose Ramirez delivered the statement he needed to make. There was no place like home for the former WBC and WBO junior welterweight titlist, who scored an eleventh-round knockout of Richard Commey. Ramirez scored two knockdowns in the fateful round,...
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