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February 2: Montreal (ESPN+)
Erik Bazinyan vs. Alantez Fox, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Yves Ulysse Jr. vs. Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Alexandre Gaumont vs. Carlos Gallego Montijo, 6 rounds, middleweights
Raphael Courchesne vs. Diego Garduno Reyes, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Christopher Guerrero vs. Edwin Villarreal Flores, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Avery Martin-Duval vs. Eduardo Mota Garcia, 6 rounds, lightweights
Wilkens Mathieu vs. Zsolt Birkas, 4 rounds, super middleweights
February 3: Glendale, Ariz. (ESPN, ESPN Deportes, ESPN+)
Emanuel Navarrete vs. Liam Wilson, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO junior lightweight title
Arnold Barboza vs. Jose Pedraza, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Richard Torrez Jr. vs. James Bryant, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Emiliano Vargas vs. Francisco Duque, 4 rounds, lightweights
Andres Cortes vs. Luis Melendez, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Xavier Martinez vs. Yohan Vasquez, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Nico Ali Walsh vs. Eduardo Ayala, 6 rounds, middleweights
Lindolfo Delgado vs. Clarence Booth, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
February 4: New York (DAZN)
Amanda Serrano vs. Erika Cruz, 10 rounds, WBC/WBO/IBF/WBA women’s featherweight unification
Alycia Baumgardner vs. Elhem Mekhaled, 10 rounds, for Baumgardner’s WBC/WBO/IBF and vacant WBA women’s junior lightweight title
Richardson Hitchins vs. John Bauza, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Shadasia Green vs. Elin Cederroos, 10 rounds, WBC women’s super middleweight eliminator
Skye Nicolson vs. Tania Alvarez, 10 rounds, female featherweights
Ramla Ali vs. Avril Mathie, 10 rounds, female junior featherweights
Yankiel Rivera vs. Fernando Diaz, 8 rounds, flyweights
Aaron Aponte vs. Joshua David Rivera, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Harley Mederos vs. Julio Madera, 6 rounds, lightweights
February 4: Ontario, Calif.
Ernesto Mercado vs. Jose Angulo, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Raul Lizarraga vs. Ryan Adams, 8 rounds, middleweights
Isaac Anguiano vs. Jenn Gonzalez, 6 rounds, junior bantamweights
William King vs. Tyjuan Townsend, 4 rounds, lightweights
Alonso Cisneros vs. Felipe Torres, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Anthony Chavez vs. TBA, 4 rounds, lightweights
Jaime Cerna vs. Jamel Reynolds, 4 rounds, light heavyweights
February 4: Ludwigshafen, Germany
Mourad Aliev vs. Ali Kiydin, 10 rounds, heavyweights
February 8: Mexico City (ProBox TV)
Alejandro Gonzalez vs. Bryan Rivera, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Francisco Araujo vs. Ivan Garcia, 8 rounds, flyweights
Alexis De La Cruz Martinez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Jesus Mauricio Estrada vs. Leyver Lopez Razgado, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Emiliano Toscano Diaz vs. Sergio Manzo Rebolledo, 6 rounds, flyweights
Jose Guillermo Keb Canul vs. Roberto Elizalde Galvan, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
Jaime Osuna vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
February 10: Ontario, Calif. (Thompson Boxing Facebook and YouTube)
George Acosta vs. Marlin Sims, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Nelson Oliva vs. Wayne Boudreaux, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Elias Diaz vs. David Thomas, 8 rounds, welterweights
Juan Sanchez vs. Xavier Madrid, 6 rounds, welterweights
Anthony Saldivar vs. Corey Cook, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
Oscar Torrez vs. Jesus Martinez Torres, 6 rounds, heavyweights
February 11: San Antonio (Showtime)
O’Shaquie Foster vs. Rey Vargas, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC junior lightweight title
Mario Barrios vs. Jovanie Santiago, 10 rounds, welterweights
Lenier Pero vs. Viktor Faust, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Eumir Felix Marcial vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights
February 11: London
Adam Azim vs. Santos Reyes, 10 rounds, lightweights
Dan Azeez vs. Thomas Faure, 12 rounds, for vacant European light heavyweight title
Caroline Dubois vs. Yamila Belen Abellaneda, 6 rounds, female lightweights
Tyler Denny vs. Brad Pauls, 10 rounds, middleweights
Viddal Riley vs. Anees Taj, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
Zak Chelli vs. Anthony Sims Jr., 10 rounds, super middleweights
February 11: Hamilton, Ontario (FITE)
Ryan Rozicki vs. Arturs Gorlov, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Pedro Bernal vs. Paul Ispas, 10 rounds, lightweights
John Michael Bianco vs. TBA, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Reda Benbaziz vs. Dylan Rushton, 4 rounds, lightweights
February 16: Costa Mesa, Calif. (FITE)
Juan Avila vs. Andres Gerardo, 6 rounds, lightweights
Darynn Leyva vs. Percy Peterson, 4 rounds, lightweights
Ruben Cazales vs. Franciso Alfaro, 4 rounds, super middleweights
Antonio Garcia vs. Slava Mayzus, 4 rounds, middleweights
February 17: Topeka, Kansas (Showtime)
Ardreal Holmes vs. Ismael Villarreal, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Misael Lopez vs. Edward Vazquez, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Victor Padilla vs. John Mannu, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Timur Kerefov vs. TBA, 8 rounds, middleweights
Trey Lippe Morrison vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights
David Lopez vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
John Cantrell vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights
February 17: London
Mark Chamberlain vs. Vairo Lenti, 10 rounds, lightweights
David Adeleye vs. Dmytro Bezus, 8 rounds, heavyweights
Henry Turner vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Royston Barney-Smith vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
Carl Fail vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
Ezra Taylor vs. TBA, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
Adan Mohamed vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior featherweights
Amaar Akbar vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Aloys Junior vs. TBA, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
February 17: Massa, Italy
Davide Tassi vs. Jose Antonio Romero Sanchez, 10 rounds, featherweights
Claudio Granne vs. Jonathan Sannino, 10 rounds, bantamweights
February 18: Nottingham, England (DAZN)
Leigh Wood vs. Mauricio Lara, 12 rounds, for Wood’s WBA featherweight title
Dalton Smith vs. Billy Allington, 12 rounds, for Smith’s British junior welterweight title
Gary Cully vs. Wilfredo Flores, 10 rounds, lightweights
Cheavon Clarke vs. Dec Spelman 10 rounds, cruiserweights
Gamal Yafai vs. Diego Alberto Ruiz, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Kieron Conway vs. Jorge Silva, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Junaid Bostan vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
Nico Leivars vs. Alberto Motos, 6 rounds, junior featherweights
February 18: Pomona, Calif. (DAZN)
Luis Nery vs. Azat Hovhannisyan, 12 rounds, WBC junior featherweight eliminator
Shane Mosley Jr. vs. Mario Lozano, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Aaron Silva vs. Christian Olivas, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Ricardo Sandoval vs. Jerson Ortiz, 10 rounds, flyweights
Asa Stevens vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
Dalis Kaleiopu vs. TBA, 4 rounds, lightweights
February 18: Stuttgart, Germany
Felix Sturm vs. Sukru Altay, 10 or 12 rounds, super middleweights
February 18: Melrose, Mass. (BXNGTV)
Anthony Andreozzi vs. Jamer Jones, 6 rounds, middleweights
Justin Rolfe vs. Jonathan Gruber, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Mike Ohan Jr. vs. Daniel Sostre, 10 rounds, welterweights
Vaibhav Singh Yadav vs. William Parra Smith, 6 rounds, welterweights
Tyrone Luckey vs. TBA, 4 rounds, welterweights
Kevin Lewis vs. Jeremiah David Austin, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
February 22: Plant City, Fla. (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
February 23: Indio, Calif. (DAZN)
John “Scrappy” Ramirez vs. Luis Padilla, 10 rounds, junior bantamweights
Manuel Flores vs. Marvin Solano, 8 rounds, bantamweights
Lorraine Villalobos vs. Katherine Lindenmuth, 6 rounds, female strawweights
Zachary Spiller vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Stefanie Cohen vs. TBA, 4 rounds, female bantamweights
February 23: New York
Heather Hardy vs. Taynna Cardoso, 8 rounds, female junior lightweights
Frederic Julan vs. Decarlo Perez, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
Elon de Jesus vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior featherweights
February 24: Hialeah, Fla.
Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Jesus Martinez, 10 rounds, bantamweights
Ariel Perez De La Torre vs. Yonfrez Parejo, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Jorge De Jesus Romero vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Frank Diaz vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Damian Lescaille vs. TBA, 6 rounds, welterweights
Gustavo Trujillo vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights
February 24: Rome
Khalil El Harraz vs. Vincenzo Bevilacqua, 10 rounds, middleweights
Anna Lisa Brozzi vs. Sheila Martinez, 10 rounds, female featherweights
February 25: Minneapolis (Showtime)
Subriel Matias vs. Jeremias Ponce, 12 rounds, for vacant IBF junior welterweight title
Jamal James vs. Alberto Palmetta, 10 rounds, welterweights
Elvis Rodriguez vs. Joseph Adorno, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
February 25: Atlanta (BLK Prime/Integrated Sports PPV)
Adrian Broner vs. Michael Williams Jr., 10 rounds, welterweights
Tevin Farmer vs. Mickey Bey, 10 rounds, lightweights
Anthony Peterson vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Lawrence Newton vs. TBA, 8 rounds, bantamweights
Antonio Williams vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
Roddricus Livsey vs. TBA, 6 rounds, welterweights
Joshua Flanagan vs. Naheem Parker, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Dante Williams vs. Raphael Carolina, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Iyana Verduzco vs. Jessica Emerick, 4 rounds, female lightweights
Stacey Selby vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Alan Garcia vs. TBA, 4 rounds, lightweights
February 25: London
Floyd Mayweather vs. Aaron Chalmers, exhibition
February 25: Newcastle, England
Lewis Ritson vs. Ohara Davies, 12 rounds, WBA junior welterweight eliminator
Thomas Patrick Ward vs. Otabek Kholmatov, 12 rounds, WBA featherweight eliminator
Troy Williamson vs. TBA, 10 or 12 rounds, junior middleweights
Lee McGregor vs. TBA, 10 or 12 rounds, junior featherweights
February 25: Johannesburg, South Africa
Luis Castillo vs. Ayanda Ndulani, 12 rounds, WBC strawweight eliminator
February 25: Rzeszow, Poland
Dylan Bregeon vs. Michail Cieslak, 12 rounds, for vacant European cruiserweight title
February 25: Barcelona, Spain
Juan Felix Gomez vs. Catalin Ionescu, 12 rounds, for vacant European junior lightweight title
February 25: Holstebro, Denmark
Dina Thorslund vs. Debora Anahi Lopez, 10 rounds, for Thorslund’s WBO women’s bantamweight
February 25: Malta
Connor Butler vs. Craig Derbyshire, 12 rounds, for vacant Commonwealth flyweight title
February 25: Berlin
Jack Mulowayi vs. Granit Shala, 12 rounds, heavyweights
February 26: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (ESPN PPV)
Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury, 8 rounds, cruiserweights
Ilunga Makabu vs. Badou Jack, 12 rounds, for Makabu’s WBC cruiserweight title
Ashton Sylve vs. Maxwell Awuku, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
March 1: Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
Knockout CP Freshmart vs. Erick Rosa, 12 rounds, for CP Freshmart’s WBA strawweight title
March 4: Ontario, Calif. (Showtime)
Brandon Figueroa vs. Mark Magsayo, 12 rounds, for vacant WBC interim featherweight title
Jarrett Hurd vs. Armando Resendiz, 10 rounds, middleweights
Amilcar Vidal vs. Elijah Garcia, 10 rounds, middleweights
March 4: Culiacan, Mexico (DAZN)
Angel Fierro vs. Eduardo Estela, 10 rounds, lightweights
Eduardo Nunez vs. Rodolfo Bustamante, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Misael Rodriguez vs. Rafael Orti, 8 rounds, middleweights
Criztec Balzaldua vs. Alejandro Castillo, 4 rounds, lightweights
March 4: Bochum, Germany
Agit Kabayel vs. Agron Smakici, 12 rounds, for vacant European heavyweight title
Fedor Michel vs. TBA, 6 rounds, super middleweights
March 4: Telford, England (DAZN)
Misfits Boxing
March 4: Jersey City, N.J.
Rajon Chance vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
Ryan O’Rourke vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Jahyae Brown vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Harley Burke vs. Joseph Aguilar, 6 rounds, super middleweights
March 4: Newtown, Pa.
Brian Howard vs. Junior Wright, 8 roumds, heavyweights
Rashan Adams vs. Oscar Barajas, 6 rounds, lightweights
Daiyaan Butt vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Mark Dawson vs. TBA, 6 rounds, welterweights
Laquan Evans vs. Eliezer Olmeda, 6 rounds, welterweights
Isaiah Johnson vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Nimal Farmer vs. TBA, 4 rounds, welterweights
Nasir Mickens vs. Juan Gutierrez, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
Dominique Mayfield vs. Jerome Aiken, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Ghandi Romain vs. Jeremiah Kendrick, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
Erron Peterson vs. Tariq Green, 4 rounds, middleweights
Najeem Johns vs. Leonidas Fowlkes, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Brendan O’Callaghan vs. Soslan Alborov, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
March 8: Mexico City (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
March 10: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Evelin Bermudez vs. Tania Enriquez, 10 rounds, for vacant IBF/WBO women’s junior flyweight titles
March 11: Liverpool, England (DAZN)
Callum Smith vs. TBA, 12 rounds, light heavyweights
Diego Pacheco vs. Jack Cullen, 10 rounds, super middleweights
March 11: TBA, Australia
Tim Tszyu vs. Tony Harrison, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO interim junior middleweight title
March 11: Paris (ESPN+)
Tony Yoka vs. Carlos Takam, 10 rounds, heavyweights
March 11: London
Lawrence Okolie vs. David Light, 12 rounds, for Okolie’s WBO cruiserweight title
March 11: Orlando, Fla.
Thomas LaManna vs. Alberto Mosquera, 10 rounds, middleweights
March 11: Barcelona, Spain.
Cristobal Lorente vs. Andoni Gago, 12 rounds, featherweights
March 11: Montpelier, France
Mohammed Kani vs. Pietro Rossetti, 12 rounds, welterweights
March 16: Laval, Quebec
Jean Pascal vs. Michael Eifert, 12 rounds, IBF light heavyweight eliminator
March 18: Dubai
Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller vs. Lucas Browne, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Jono Carroll vs. Miguel Marriaga, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
March 22: Plant City, Fla. (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
March 23: Montreal (ESPN+)
Christian Mbilli vs. Carlos Gongora, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Simon Kean vs. Eric Molina, 10 rounds, heavyweights
March 25: Las Vegas (Showtime PPV)
David Benavidez vs. Caleb Plant, 12 rounds, for Benavidez’s WBC interim super middleweight title
March 25: Fresno, Calif. (ESPN/ESPN Deportes/ESPN+)
Jose Ramirez vs. Richard Commey, 12 rounds, junior welterweights
Seniesa Estrada vs. Tina Rupprecht, 10 rounds, WBA/WBC women’s strawweight unification
Raymond Muratalla vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
Karlos Balderas vs. Nahir Albright, 8 rounds, lightweights
Antonio Mireles vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Charlie Sheehy vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
Javier Martinez vs. TBA, 6 rounds, middleweights
Jessie James Guerrero vs. TBA, 4 rounds, flyweights
March 25: Telford, England
Nathan Heaney vs. Jack Flatley, rematch, 10 rounds, middleweights
Andrew Cain vs. Ionut Baluta, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Jason Cunningham vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Raven Chapman vs. Lucie Sedlackova, 10 rounds, female featherweights
Moses Itauma vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Brad Strand vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Owen Cooper vs. TBA, 8 rounds, welterweights
Macaulay Owen vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Natty Ngwenya vs. TBA, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Jimmy Smith vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
April 1: London (DAZN)
Anthony Joshua vs. Jermaine Franklin, 12 rounds, heavyweights
April 1: Tulsa, Okla. (ESPN+)
Robeisy Ramirez vs. Isaac Dogboe, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO interim featherweight title
Xander Zayas vs. Ronald Cruz, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Jahi Tucker vs. Nikoloz Sekhniashvili, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Joet Gonzalez vs. Jose Enrique Vivas, 10 rounds, featherweights
Tiger Johnson vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Jeremiah Milton vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Abdullah Mason vs. TBA, 6 rounds, lightweights
Dante Benjamin Jr. vs. TBA, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
April 1: Paris
Arsen Goulamirian vs. TBA, 12 rounds, for Goulamirian’s WBA cruiserweight title
April 5: Mexico City (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
April 8: San Antonio (DAZN)
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez vs. Cristian Gonzalez, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO flyweight title
Marc Castro vs. TBA, 8 rounds, lightweights
Khalil Coe vs. Aaron Casper, rematch, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
April 8: Newark, N.J. (ESPN/ESPN Deportes/ESPN+)
Shakur Stevenson vs. TBA, 12 rounds, lightweights
Jared Anderson vs. TBA, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Keyshawn Davis vs. TBA, 8 rounds, lightweights
April 19: Plant City, Fla. (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
April 22: TBA (DAZN)
Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov vs. Joe Cordina, 12 rounds, for Rakhimov’s IBF junior lightweight title
April 22: TBA, United States (DAZN)
Misfits Boxing
May 13: TBA, United Kingdom (DAZN)
Misfits Boxing
May 17: Plant City, Fla. (ProBox TV)
ProBox TV
June 11: Canastota, N.Y.
International Boxing Hall of Fame inductions
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Every time I read “Tina Rupprecht” I’m reminded of Steve Martin’s Rupprecht in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and that tickles me.
any special edition issues from the past which are considered rare and hard to find.