Tag: WBF

Mwakinyo, Kayembe Collide For WBF Title August 14

Tanzanian star Hassan Mwakinyo is set to return on Friday August 14, when he takes on undefeated Congolese Tshibangu Kayembe for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Super Welterweight title in Dar Es Salaam. Riding a six-fight winning-streak, Mwakinyo, 16-2 (11), is best known for a 2018 upset victory over former European Champion Sam Eggington in England, but the twenty-five year-old has accomplished much more than that since turning pro in 2015. Less than a year into his paid career he Tanzanian national Champion, and in February of 2017 he captured the East & Central Africa title. Six months after that, he beat 14-1 Namibian Anthony Jarmann to lift the WBA Pan African belt. He build on the Eggington-triumph by winning the UBO International title in October of Read more [...]

Manyushi, Nkosi WBF World Champions, Denes, Cafu & Pinto Wins

Saturday September 28 was a big night of action for the World Boxing Federation (WBF), as championship double-headers took place in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and a defending International Champion put his title on the line in Mexico. At the International Convention Center in Harare, Zimbabwe, national hero Charles Manyushi captured the vacant WBF World Middleweight title when he beat former title-holder Diego Diaz Gallardo from Argentina in three one-sided rounds. Manyushi (30) was unmerciful, and showed that he is at the peak of his powers, while Diaz Gallardo may be at the end of the road at 39. The new World Champion improved his professional record to 24-4-1 (15), while Diaz Gallardo drops to 22-7-1 (13). In main undercard attraction of the show promoted by Exodus Boxing Academy, Read more [...]

Dilan Loza & Gabriel Garcia Wins WBF Titles In Mexicali

On Friday night, June 14, in Mexicali, Mexico, two new World Boxing Federation (WBF) Champions were crowned in co-featured bouts on a big show promoted by Juan Carlos Hurtado and his Strikking Boxing Promotions.  At the Auditorio Del Estardo, the same venue where the last world championship fight scheduled for fifteen rounds took place in 1988 (Jorge Paez vs. Calvin Grove), local boxing fans witnessed an excellent night of action. Mexicali native Dilan Loza took the WBF Mexico Welterweight title from reigning champion Ramon Barajas, with an impressive performance over ten rounds to win by wide unanimous decision. Barajas survived a first-round knock-down and fought back valiantly, but Loza controlled most of the fight with disciplined boxing. Judge Roman Cruz had it a shut-out 100-90, while Read more [...]

Seventeen Year Old Japanese Wonderboy WBF Champion!

Japanese teenage sensation Ayumu “Flaco” Hanada, still only seventeen, took home the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Asia Pacific Flyweight title on Sunday, June 9, with a unanimous decision over fellow countryman Ryo Hashiya (20) in Osaka. Described by WBF President Howard Goldberg, who was at ringside for the fight, as an unbelievable talent with power and fast hands, combined with good technique and movement, Hanada won by scores of 98-93, 99-93 and 97-94. But, fighting for the first time in his native country as a professional after four bouts in Mexico, it was not exactly an easy nights work for Hanada, as Hashiya never gave up. Every time Hanada looked on the brink of scoring a stoppage, Hashiya, came back strong. In rounds nine and ten Hashiya even had Hanada in some trouble, Read more [...]

Tingen WBF Intercontinental Champ, Brown Wins International

Undefeated Dutch Champion Ben Tingen added the World Boxing Federation (WBF) Intercontinental Cruiserweight title to his resume on Saturday night, May 25, at De Bonte Wever in Assen, Netherlands, beating Bosnian Ervin Dzinic. The fight was evenly contested and action-packed as long as it lasted, with both men landing hurtful punches, but when Tingen connected with a body-shot followed up by a right hand to the head and a left hook to the shoulder, Dzinic went down in agony. Claiming injury to the shoulder, Dzinic was unable to continue, forcing referee Mafudel Elghazaoui to count him out and wave the fight off at 0:58 of the fourth round to declare Tingen the new champion with a record of 10-0-1 (8). Dzinic falls to 7-3 (2). At the Big Punch Arena in Tijuana, Mexico, also on Saturday Read more [...]

Patel vs. Ramos For WBF World Bantamweight Title

In a clash of southpaws, United Kingdom´s Prince Patel will square off with Ronald Ramos from Colombia for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Bantamweight title on January 13 in one of the featured bouts of a show in Budapest, Hungary. 26-year-old Patel, 17-0-1 (12), who currently holds the WBO European title, has fought in Hungary nine times previously, so he will be returning to old stomping grounds for what will be the biggest fight of his career to date. Coming off Budapest-victories over Julias Kisarawe (29-5-1) and John Chuwa (16-1), the brash and colourful Patel will face his most experienced and accomplished foe to date in Ramos, a former WBO world title-challenger who brings a 41-17-4 (20) record. Patel has by far been the more active of the two in recent years, Read more [...]

Kinigamazi Overcomes McCorry To Retain WBF World Title

Christmas indeed came early for Swiss boxing fans on Thursday, December 13, at the sold-out Cirque de Noel in Geneva, when World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Super Featherweight Champion Patrick Kinigamazi took on Scottish challenger Jordan McCorry.  Making his third defense of the WBF World title, Rwanda-born Kinigamazi was faced with a very determined and gritty opponent in the man from Cambuslang on the outskirts of Glasgow, and while the champion eventually took control when he found his distance, McCorry battled hard all the way to stay in the fight. In a great atmosphere, created by local as well as quite a few Scottish fans who had taken the trip to Switzerland, it was a very intense and heated contest, with both men suffering cuts and bruises from accidental head-clashes. None Read more [...]

Kinigamazi Set For Third WBF World Title-Defense Against McCorry

World Boxing Federation (WBF) World Super Featherweight king Patrick Kinigamazi, 29-2 (4), is set to make the third defense of his title on Thursday December 13 against Scottish Champion Jordan “Jordy” McCorry, 17-3-1 (4). Appropriately, considering the time of the year, the fight will headline a show staged at the Cirque de Noel (Christmas Circus) in Geneva, Switzerland, only a few kilometres from the Rwanda-born World Champions adopted home-town Thonex. Undefeated since 2012, Kinigamazi (35) won the WBF World title in June of 2017, beating Argentinian Juan Jose Farias (18-9-1), and has since successfully defended against Hungary´s Robert Laki (14-1-1) and Ramiro Blanco (17-2-3) from Nicaragua. In McCorry (27), managed and promoted by respected Scottish boxing-man Sam Kynoch, Read more [...]

“Chaos In Lagos” – Salam Vows To Punish Gonorenda In Rematch

Gonorenda, 12-12 (7), won their first fight, on August 31 in Zimbabwe, by hotly disputed split decision, and this time Salam, 11-2 (6), will have the home-court advantage when he gets a second chance to show he is the better man and deserves to be the WBF All Africa title-holder. “I clearly won the first fight”, Salam recently told Kwesé ESPN. “Gonorenda knows it, the Zimbabwean crowd knows it, and the millions who watched on TV across Africa knows it.” “It is now personal. Gonorenda is going to pay, and this injustice will finally be resolved. I am not risking letting the judges decide my faith again, Gonorenda is being put to sleep.” “Chaos in Lagos” will be promoted by Kalakoda Promotions, and broadcast to more than fifty million potential viewers by Kwesé Sports Read more [...]

Segu Evens The Score With Rajuili, Takes WBF Title

When they fought last March the fight was thrilling and many felt Tanzanian Jonas “Black Mamba” Segu was unlucky to lose a majority decision to South Africa´s David Rajuili for the World Boxing Federation (WBF) All Africa Lightweight title. The rematch, on Friday September 28 at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa, was equally exciting but this time the work-rate and accuracy of Segu made it a relatively easy fight to score, and he emerged a clear winner by unanimous decision. After ten highly entertaining rounds, judges Fred Van der Ross, Eddie Marshall and Clifford Mbelo were in complete agreement, all scoring the fight 98-92 for the new champion. Referee in charge of the action was Elroy Marchall. Jonas Segu (27) improved his professional record to 19-8-2 (6), Read more [...]

Gonorenda And Ndafoluma Set For WBF Title Defenses

Two World Boxing Federation (WBF) Champions are set to defend their titles when Kalakoda Promotions presents “A Fistful of Dollars” on Friday August 31 at the International Conference Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe.  WBF All Africa Cruiserweight Champion Chamunorwa “Sting” Gonorenda, 11-12 (7), will be looking to continue the resurrection of his career when he takes on London-based Nigerian Southpaw Tony Salem, 11-1 (6), in his first defense. Gonorenda was 7-12 after losing to former WBF World Cruiserweight Champion Ilunga Makabu in April of 2017, but since then he has won four straight, including three stoppages, and picked up the WBF title last August by defeating Kaminja Ramadhan. In the co-featured bout, Lukas Ndafoluma, 12-1 (4), will be making a very quick turn-around as he Read more [...]

Sirenko Destroys Didier, Mayala Barely Retains WBF All Africa Crown

The Mistico Equestrian Center in Paarl, South Africa, about sixty kilometres from Cape Town, set the scene for two World Boxing Federation (WBF) championship fights on Friday night, June 28, promoted by Kalakoda Promotions and televised live by Kwesé Sports.  Billed as “Seek & Destroy”, the evenings main event had heavyweight-punchers Knife Didier and Vladyslav Sirenko, from D.R. Congo and Ukraine respectively but both fighting out of South Africa, square off for the vacant WBF International Heavyweight title. Seek and destroy is exactly what 23-year-old former amateur-standout Sirenko did, taking his record to 8-0 (7) in devastating fashion by completely obliterating the normally teak-tough Didier only 57 seconds into the first round. Having gone ten tough rounds with WBF Read more [...]

William Zepeda Set For First WBF Title-Defense On April 27

Big-punching Southpaw prospect William “Camaron” Zepeda is set to make the first defense of his World Boxing Federation (WBF) Mexican Lightweight title against Pedro Solis Rodriguez on Friday April 27 at the Polidiportivo Juan S. Millan in Culiacan. Only twenty-one years old, Zepeda has put together an impressive 13-0 record since turning professional in November of 2015. Eleven of his victories has come inside the distance, and ten of those within the first four rounds. Zepeda already holds wins over tough opponents such as Manuel Castro (17-5), Juan Pablo Borbon (7-1-2), against whom he won the WBF title last October, and former Mexican titlist and WBC regional belt-holder Jesus Acosta (21-8-2). While a healthy favourite, he will face another stern challenge in Pedro Solis Rodriguez Read more [...]

Miguel Vazquez Tops Cosme Rivera In WBF Title Fight

In a fast-paced and gritty fight, former IBF World Lightweight ruler Miguel “Titere” Vazquez captured the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Mexican Welterweight crown on Friday night, April 13, at Parque Revulucion in Culiacan. Vazquez (31), from Guadalajara, defeated veteran home-town favourite, and former WBF World Welterweight Champion, Cosme “Chino” Rivera by unanimous decision on a show promoted by Promociones Boxisticas Culiacan. Both men had come to put on a show for the fans, and, while at times a little messy, the fight was entertaining with two warriors coming forward and trying to gain momentum. Vazquez was the quicker man with both hands and feet, but Rivera never stopped trying despite failing to land anything clean. Vazquez had plenty of success with the right Read more [...]

WBF Latest News: Former World Champions Collide For WBF Title Cosme Rivera and Miguel Vazquez to Fight for vacant WBF Title

Former World Champions Cosme “Chino” Rivera and Miguel “Titere” Vazquez will clash for the vacant World Boxing Federation (WBF) Mexican Welterweight title on Friday April 13 at the Parque Revolucion in Rivera´s home-town of Culiacan, Mexico.  Promoted by Promociones Boxisticas Culiacan, the fight headlines a show labelled “Honor & Glory”, and will put the winner in a position to challenge for the WBF World Welterweight title, currently held by Bethuel Ushona from Namibia, in the foreseeable future. Rivera, 43-24-3 (29), won the WBF World Welterweight title in 2003 by defeating James Hare (28-0-1) in England, and has fought a regular who's-who of the best Light Welterweights and Welterweights of his generation. Now 41 years old, and with a long list of other titles on Read more [...]