Celebrating his 30th birthday as well as Mexican Independence Day, WBC featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez (50-7, 44 KOs) scored an impressive second round TKO over Rogers Mtagwa (27-15-2, 19 KOs) on Thursday night at the County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas. After an even round one, Gonzalez opened up in round two and rocked Mtagwa with a series of big shots. The iron-jawed Tanzanian was definitely hurt read more ...

World Boxing Council featherweight champion Jhonny Gonzalez of Mexico has been confirmed to face Tomas Villa of Texas on July 9 at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, in what will be a co-promotion by read more ...

If Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa established themselves as the top two featherweights in the world with impressive wins Saturday night, there seems to be no rush to definitively answer who is number one. It was the second time in four months that Lopez and Gamboa co-headlined a show from the theatre read more ...

WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa,, (17-0, 15 KOs) destroyed IBF #7/WBO #10 Rogers Mtagwa (26-14-2, 18 KOs) in two rounds. Gamboa simply outclassed Mtagwa, florring him once in the first read more ...

Superstar Felix Trinidad poses with WBO World Featherweight Champion Steven Luevano and WBO Jr. World Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Lopez after both fighters weighed in, Luevano at 126 lbs, Lopez at 125.5 lbs). They meet on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Also WBA Featherweight Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa weighed in at 126 lbs, while chellenger Rogers Mtagwa scaled read more ...

WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez arrived back in Puerto Rico; returning from the toughest win of his career. Lopez won a much tougher than expected decision over veteran Rogers Mtagwa on Saturday night at the WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden. For the last year, there has been a slow build-up for a unification bout with WBA/IBF champion Celestino Caballero. Every indication had the fight taking place read more ...

Unbeaten WBO jr featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (27-0, 24 KOs) overcame the toughest challenge of his career, winning a narrow twelve round unanimous decision over Rogers Mtagwa (26-13-2, 18 KOs) on Saturday night inside the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden, New York City. “Juanma” had all he could handle with the rugged brawler Mtagwa as the bout contained many spectacular exchanges. Lopez was credited with a knockdown in round five but every round was a war read more ...

BoxingScene.com has just been advised that heavyweight veteran Monte Barrett will replace Fres Oquendo as the opponent for Odlanier Solis on the Juan Manuel Lopez-Rogers Mtagwa undercard on Saturday night at the Latin Fury card at Madison Square Garden in New York read more ...