Serhiy «Professor» Fedchenko (30-1, 13 KO), WBO Europe belt-holder and the best current light welterweight of Ukraine celebrates his 31th birthday today in Mexico finishing his preparation for the biggest fight of his boxing career. Fast-handed Ukrainian technician will fight for interim WBO World light welterweight title against all-Mexican boxing legend, former three weight-class World Champion Juan Manuel Marquez on April 14th at the New Arena México in Mexico City. «I have a great chance to give myself the best birthday gift by beating JMM this Saturday» read more ...

The WBO has warned former WBO jr middleweight champion Serhiy Dzinziruk that he needs to fight if he wants to retain his lofty #2 WBO rating. Dzinziruk was stripped of his WBO title last October for failure to defend his belt, and interim titlist Zaurbek Baysangurov was elevated to full champion’s status read more ...

An agreement has been reached between K2 Promotions and SES Boxing to arrange a fight between newly crowned WBO light middleweight champion Zaurbek Baysangurov (26-1, 20 KOs) and dangerous WBO #1 Czech opponent Lukas Konecny (47-3, 22 KOs) read more ...

According to the World Boxing Organization (WBO) President, Francisco «Paco» Valcarcel, the organization’s longtime titlist Serhiy Dzinziruk (37-1, 23 KOs), the Ukranian Junior Middleweight Champion, has a set date for his next defense. An interim-fight has also been scheduled and the two winners have to face each other in 90 days read more ...

According to various sources in Ukrainian media, highly regarded Kiev-based Russian junior middleweight Zaurbek Baysangurov (25-1, 19 KOs) will soon go for the biggest prize of his career to date. WBO #4 Baysangurov, 26, who is also ranked #2 by the WBA, #8 by the WBC and #13 by the IBF, faces 38-year old WBO #5 Brazilian Mike Miranda for a vacant WBO interim light middleweight title read more ...

Former welterweight and junior middleweight champion Daniel Santos (32-4-1, 23 KOs) will return to action on June 10 in New York City on a card coinciding with the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. Santos has not fought since losing his title against Yuri Foreman in November 2009 read more ...

The super welterweight elimination bout between contenders Vanes Martirosyan and Saul Roman will now take place on June 4th at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told Fightnews.com on Tuesday afternoon. “We had to push the fight back from April 23rd to June 4th because Vanes had a case of the flu recently,” said Arum read more ...

BoxingScene.com has been advised that WBO junior middleweight champion Sergiy Dzinziruk (37-1, 23KOs) is interested in defending his title against top contender Pawel Wolak (29-1, 19KOs). Dzinziruk is possibly going to return in an HBO televised fight in the summer. A meeting will be held in the near future to finalize his next appearance on the network read more ...

This past Saturday at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in Mashantucket, middleweight champion Sergio Martinez knocked out Sergiy Dzinziruk in eight rounds to retain his crown. He secured the impressive win without his trainer, Gabriel Sarmiento. Martinez was instead handled by Sarmiento’s brother, Pablo read more ...

Based on his activity level and competition, the 36-year-old Martinez (47-2-2, 27 knockouts) told BoxingScene.com that he also believes that he has surpassed Floyd Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs) as the second-best boxer in the sport read more ...