News - Joseph Agbeko

JOSEPH KING KONG AGBEKO: “He [Darchinyan] pushed me in the seventh round and throughout the fight. He is very dirty and rough in the ring. I was fighting two people in the ring: Darchinyan and the referee. But I didn’t care if there were five people in the ring tonight, I was going in to win and come back out with my championship belt. Darchinyan talked a lot before the fight and I turned him into ‘the raging bullsh!tter’ like I said read more ...

IBF bantamweight champion Joseph Agbeko (27-1, 22 KOs) took a hard fought unanimous decision over unified super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-2-1, 26 KOs) on Saturday night at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. A close fight turned when Darchinyan scored a flash knockdown in round seven read more ...

Any chance of the emotion from Thursday’s spirited final pre-fight press conference spilling over into Friday’s weigh-in was dashed by the event threatening to never begin. Things ran more than an hour late, but everyone eventually made their way to the scale, with all fighters but one making weight for their respective appearances on Saturday night’s “SHOWTIME Summer Sizzler” card at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida read more ...

Two of the pound-for-pound hardest hitting boxers in the world could barely contain themselves and had to be separated during Thursday’s press conference at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. IBF bantamweight champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko will defend against four-time world champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan, but the two fighters seemed more interested in settling matters on Thursday rather than waiting read more ...

Due to travel complications, two division world champion Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan was unable to participate in Tuesday’s media workout in South Florida with his opponent, IBF bantamweight champion Joseph King Kong Agbeko. SHOWTIME caught up with the four-time world champ at the hotel pool on Wednesday, just three days before he faces Agbeko in his quest to become a three division world champion on Saturday, July 11 at the BankAtlantic Center LIVE on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT) read more ...

IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) is looking forward to winning the IBF bantamweight title from Joseph Agbeko (26-1, 22 KOs) when they clash on July 11 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida. Darchinyan said. ” Maybe I stay for a year at bantamweight read more ...

According to the Times Online, the junior welterweight bout between Junior Witter and undefeated Devon Alexander will land in the co-feature position of the July 11 Showtime televised card at the BankAtlantic Centre, in Sunrise, Florida read more ...

WBC/IBF/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) is once again on the move. A deal has been reached between Gary Shaw and Don King for the summer collision between Darchinyan and IBF bantamweight champion Joseph "King Kong" Agbeko (26-1, 22 KOs). Since the knockout of Jorge Arce in February, Darchinyan expressed his desire to jump up to bantamweight to look for bigger fights read more ...