Carlos Toro
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Wrestling
Hekkie Budler Wins Unified WBA/IBF Light Flyweight Titles
After Hekkie Budler narrowly lost a "Fight of the Year" contender in 2017 to Milan Melindo, he would have to wait almost nine months in order to get another shot at the IBF light flyweight title, but the wait was…
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Wrestling
Exclusive: Michael Buffer Calls Matchroom Boxing Announcement “Massive” For The Sport
Legendary boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer is a big fan of Matchroom Boxing's recent announcement of its plans to further expand into the United States. In the historic announcement made by Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Boxing will have 16 boxing shows in…
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Wrestling
Luck Of The Draw: Badou Jack Fights Adonis Stevenson To A Majority Draw
Badou Jack moved up in weight in 2017 in hopes of capturing another world title and hopefully avoid another controversial draw. Unfortunately, the luck of the draw found Jack in yet another quest to win a world title. Jack fought…
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Wrestling
Tyson Fury’s Opponent Announced For June 9 Return Fight
With only three weeks remaining before his scheduled return to the ring, Tyson Fury finally has an opponent. Fury will fight 39-year-old cruiserweight journeyman Sefer Seferi on the June 9 boxing card at the Manchester Arena in Fury’s highly-anticipated return…
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Wrestling
Josh Warrington Wins IBF Featherweight Title With Split Decision Win Over Lee Selby
In front of a raucous crowd at Elland Road in Leeds, England, Josh Warrington won his first world title in front of his hometown fans. Competing in his first world title fight, Warrington defeated Selby by split decision (115-113 Selby, 116-112 Warrington, 115-113 Warrington)…
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Wrestling
Exclusive: John Skipper Talks How Matchroom Boxing Deal Changes Boxing
Former ESPN President John Skipper recently joined Perform Group and now will be smack dab in the middle of a major expansion project in the United States that will see the company’s DAZN streaming service be the U.S. home of…
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Wrestling
Exclusive: Simon Denyer Talks How Matchroom-Perform Deal Came About
Perform Group CEO Simon Denyer gives more details on the humongous deal between Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing and Perform Group. The deal involves Perform Group's DAZN streaming service to give boxing fans in the United States exclusive access to 16 yearly boxing shows…
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Wrestling
Fightful Boxing Rankings (5/15): New Pound-For-Pound King
The Fightful Boxing Rankings are compiled by lead boxing writer Carlos Toro. *** Fightful Boxing Rankings: Pound-for-pound Vasyl Lomachenko Terence Crawford Gennady Golovkin Canelo Alvarez Mikey Garcia Naoya Inoue Srisaket Sor Rungvisai Errol Spence Jr. Ryoichi Taguchi Sergey Kovalev Heavyweight…
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Wrestling
Sadam Ali vs. Jaime Munguia Averages More Than 700,000 Viewers On HBO
The viewership numbers for the May 12 HBO boxing card are in. According to Showbuzz Daily, the HBO card headlined by the WBO junior middleweight title fight between Sadam Ali and Jaime Munguia, averaged 711,000 viewers in the main event,…
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Wrestling
Naoya Inoue Agrees To Join WBSS If He Defeats Jamie McDonnell
Although the World Boxing Super Series announced three world champions will take part in an eight-man bantamweight tournament later this year, Kalle Sauerland said another world champion could join the tournament as well. Sauerland talked with Sky Sports and said if…
