Cruiserweight titlist Guillermo Jones suffered a back injury when he tripped getting out of the ring after a training session, forcing him to withdraw from Saturday’s title defense against Ryan Coyne. «I’m absolutely dejected, I am still,» Coyne told ESPN.com from his training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Saturday night. "I was in shock when I heard. I couldn’t believe it read more ...

The championship committee of the WBA has called for a purse bid to stage a mandatory fight between cruiserweight champion, Guillermo Jones, and interim-champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez. The purse bid takes place at read more ...

Irish Outlaw Boxing has announced unbeaten WBA #8 rated Ryan ‘The Irish Outlaw’ Coyne (16-0, 6 KOs) has signed a contract to challenge WBA cruiserweight world champion Guillermo Jones (37-3-2, 29 KOs) for the WBA title. In order to properly train for this world title bout read more ...

According to reports in Panama, Guillermo "El Felino" Jones will travel to the United States on January 15 to start training in Cleveland for his next defense of the WBA cruiserweight title. The fighter said that his promoter Don King informed him of a possible opportunity being lined up to defend his crown in March or April of next year read more ...

WBA cruiserweight champion Guillermo Jones (37-3, 29KOs) returned last weekend in Panama for his first fight in two years. He stunned the odds by stopping a very durable Valery Brudov in eleven rounds at the Arena Robert Duran. Jones wants the next move of his career to come against WBA heavyweight champion David Haye (24-1, 22KOs) of England read more ...

WBA interim flyweight champion Luis “El Nica” Concepcion (22-1, 17 KOs) impressively destroyed former champion Denkaosan Kaovichit (50-3-1, 20 KOs) in the first round on Saturday night at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City, Panama. Concepcion spectacularly dropped Kaovichit three times in the first round prompting referee Rafael Ramos to wave it off after just 90 seconds of brutality. Concepcion celebrated by doing a backflip off the top rope read more ...

Today WBA executive Vice President Gilberto Jesus Mendonza announced that WBA cruiserweight world champion Guillermo Jones will be defending his crown against Valery Brudov from Russia, with the fight landing at the Roberto Duran Arena in Panama City on October 2. The fight will be a part of the WBA’s KO Drugs fight night. After two years and one month since winning the belt, Jones would be making his first defense read more ...

Looks like WBA cruiserweight world champion Guillermo Jones has an opponent, date and location for the first defense of his title. Sources say Jones may be returning on February 27 in France against Valerie Brudov, the mandatory challenger. Apparently an agreement has been worked out between the parties involved and the WBA has called off a scheduled purse bid. It will be Jones first fight since winning the title in September 2008 by defeating Firat Arslan in Germany. Brudov has previously held the WBA interim cruiserweight belt read more ...

In a WBA cruiserweight title eliminator Jones scored a controversial fourth round stoppage win against former WBC cruiserweight king Wayne Braithwaite. Jones controlled the opening round by out-punching the naturally bigger Braithwaite with solid right hands. Jones was not as effective in the second round as Braithwaite increased the pace to finish strongly and also adopted the same tactics to win the third session. read more ...