By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

LAST WEEK Filipino boxing icon superstar Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao announced that his next possible fight is in January next year against former world champion Adrien “The Problem” Broner of the United States.

LAS VEGAS (Oct. 20, 2018) — Rob Brant came into the ring a heavy underdog. He left it a champion. Brant, from St. Paul, Minn., toppled Ryota Murata by unanimous decision to win the WBA middleweight title in front of 2,782 fans at the MGM’s Park Theater in Las Vegas.

Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller (22-0-1, 19 KOs) and Fres Oquendo (37-8, 24 KOs) will be battling it out for the vacant WBA ‘regular’ heavyweight title on November 17 at Atlantic City, New Jersey. It’s not much of a fight unfortunately, but there’s not many fighters in the WBA’s top 15 that could stand up to the power and size of Miller right now.

Hughie Fury (21-1, 11 KOs) needs a win over former world heavyweight title challenger Kubrat Pulev (25-1, 13 KOs) next week on October 27 in their IBF title eliminator to earn a title shot against International Boxing Federation champion Anthony Joshua. At this point,

Fury, 24, is just hoping the 37-year-old Pulev doesn’t pull out of the fight with an injury at the last second like he did last year when he was the mandatory challenger to Joshua.

22 OCTOBER 2018 - SINGAPORE: Fresh from his impressive showing, and IBO World Super Bantamweight win last September, at Marina Bay Sands, Namibian boxer Paulus “The Rock” Ambunda, (27-2-0), joins Ringstar Boxing’s impressive roster of boxers, under its management & promotion.

Pacquiao said he would be fighting Broner next, either on Jan. 12 or Jan. 19. The fight, which Pacquiao termed "90 percent" done, would likely take place in Las Vegas. However, a source with knowledge of the deal told ESPN the fight would be Jan. 19, not Jan. 12, though a fight likely wouldn't be formalized until he settled his tax issues with the U.S. government.

Top Rank CEO Bob Arum says the plan for Rob Brant (24-1, 16 KOs) is to possibly face either a rematch against former WBA World middleweight champion Ryota Murata (14-2, 11 KOs) or Gennady Golovkin.

LAS VEGAS (Oct. 18, 2018) – There has been a lot of talk about future big-name opponents for WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata. For now, he's focused on the task at hand, Saturday's title defense against Rob "Bravo" Brant at MGM's Park Theater in Las Vegas.

In the co-feature, Maxim "Mad Max" Dadashev will defend the NABF super lightweight belt against former world champion Antonio DeMarco.