Chris Billam-Smith defeated Lawrence Okolie by majority decision (112-112, 116-107, 115-108) earning the title of WBO Cruiserweight World Champion. The match took place at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth in front of 15,000 local fans and was broadcasted live on Sky Sports.
Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez (28-2, 16 KOs) successfully upheld his IBF featherweight global title with a fifth-round TKO triumph over Michael “Mick” Conlan (18-2, 9 KOs) on a Saturday night at The SSE Arena, situated in Conlan’s home city of Belfast.
Alexis “Lex” Rocha (23-1,15 KOs) of Santa Ana defended his NABO Welterweight title with an impressive fifth-round knockout against Anthony “Juice” Young (24-3, 8 KOs), thereby cementing his top spot on the WBO rankings.
With the words “ice water” and “shock the world” etched on his trunks, O’Shaquie Foster produced the fight of his life, coolly and methodically out-boxing two-division world champion Rey Vargas to capture the vacant WBC Super Featherweight World Championship in his first title shot live on SHOWTIME Saturday, February 11 from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas in a Premier Boxing Champions event.
Adam Azim, the most exciting young prospect in world boxing today, dominated an experienced undefeated opponent in Santos Reyes to take a unanimous decision victory over 10 rounds.
Emanuel “El Vaquero” Navarrete visited the canvas tonight, but he got back up to become a three-division world champion.
Navarrete (37-1, 31 KOs) captured the vacant WBO junior lightweight world title with a hard-earned ninth-round technical knockout victory against Liam Wilson (11-2, 7 KOs) Friday night at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
WBC/WBO/IBF unified light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev (19-0, 19 KOs) retained his 100% knockout ratio on Saturday night by scoring an eighth-round technical knockout victory against British puncher Anthony Yarde (23-3, 22 KOs) at OVO Arena Wembley in London.
The energy was eclectic at the inaugural boxing event at YouTube Theater, with fans being dazzled by the main event action featuring Santa Ana’s Alexis “Lex” Rocha (22-1, 14 KOs) and his seventh-round stoppage of Accra, Ghana’s George “Red Tiger”Ashie (33-5-2, 25 KOs).
Liverpool’s Liam Smith shocked the world taking a TKO victory one minute and nine seconds into the 4th round of a career-defining fight against Chris Eubank Jr in front of a sold-out Manchester Arena.
David Stevens, a power-punching boxer from nearby Reading, Pa., produced one of the more dramatic endings in recent SHOBOX: The New Generation history, theatrically dropping and stopping Sean Hemphill with just two seconds left in their hotly contested eight-round super middleweight showdown to capture the biggest win of his young career in the main event of SHOBOX on Friday, January 20 live on SHOWTIME from Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem, Pa.