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By Danni Rocket: This last chapter in my recent trilogy of articles is all about dreams and speculation. Part 1 was about the Bantamweights and their confirmed WBSS tournament. Several fighters had already been announced and the tourney has been officially given the go ahead, with the top four seeded fighters looking to take their […]

By Jim Dower: WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo (30-0, 15 KOs) was at ringside last Saturday night to watch the unification fight between IBF World 154 lb. champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) and WBA Super World champion Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Read

By Scott Gilfoid: Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) after beating Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) last night by a 12 round unanimous decision to become the IBF/WBA unified 154 lb. champion, he called out Saul Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook as three guys that he would like to very much fight. … Read

By Tim Royner: Jarett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) sent long-time WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) down to a 12 round unanimous decision defeat in a fight of the year candidate on Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. … Read

Jarrett Hurd unified the 154-pound division with a 12-round split-decision victory over Erislandy Lara in an all-action fight Saturday on SHOWTIME before a sold-out crowd of 2,579 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.… Read

By Jeff Aranow: IBF junior middleweight champion Jarrett ‘Swift’ Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) won an exciting 12 round split decision win over WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Erislandy ‘The American Dream’ Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) on Saturday night in their unification fight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Las Vegas, Nevada. … Read

By Allan Fox: Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd will meet up tonight in the main event in their unification fight at 154 on ShowTime Championship Boxing at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) will have his WBA Super World junior middleweight title up for grabs against the younger, taller, bigger, […]

By Jim Dower: Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) will be getting a large purse of $1 million in his unification fight this Saturday night on April 7 against IBF World junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs) in their fight on Showtime Boxing at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.… Read

WBA and IBF 154-Pound World Championship Unification Erislandy Lara – 153 ½ Jarrett Hurd – 153 Referee: Kenny Bayless; Judges: Burt Clements (Nev.), Glenn Feldman (Conn.), Dave Moretti (Nev.)… Read

By Donavan Leonard: Often great moments can be overshadowed by happenings out of their control. The Houston Rockets were on their way to an NBA championship when O.J. Simpson hit the streets in a white Bronco. Harriet Quimby was the first female to fly across the English Channel as news of the Titanic sinking was […]