Former WBC strawweight champion Tina Rupprecht, below, will move down in weight to challenge Fabiana Bytyqi for her WBC atomweight world title on Saturday, Jan. 13 at Verti Music Hall in Berlin, Germany. Rupprecht (12-1-1, 3 KOs) is coming off a decision loss to Seniesa Estrada in March. Bytyqi (20-0-2, 5 KOs) is making the first defense of the belt she won against Elizabeth Lopez Corzo back in April.
Jordan Gill, below right, defeated Michael Conlan by seventh-round TKO in a junior lightweight bout Saturday night at SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Gill (28-2-1, 9 KOs), who hadn't fought since a fourth-round TKO loss to Kiko Martinez in October 2022, dropped Conlan in Round 2 and hurt him many times throughout the fight. Conlan (18-3, 9 KOs) has now lost two consecutive fights by stoppage, following a fifth-round TKO loss against Luis Alberto Lopez in May.