With Caleb Plant’s win last night over Caleb Truax to retain the IBF super middleweight title, the 28-year-old Tennessee native kept his place in line for the real prize at 168 pounds, and in boxing overall: a fight with Canelo Alvarez later this year. Canelo officially moved to 168 to stay in December, beating Callum
Month: January 2021
Marie-Eve Dicaire’s patience will be rewarded when she returns to the ring on March 5 in Flint, Michigan, for her unification fight against Claressa Shields. Dicaire is overjoyed at the contest finally taking place, after it was postponed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic and other issues outside of her control. The contest, which
Posted on 01/30/2021 By: Sean Crose Heavyweight Michael Coffie appeared on Saturday’s Fox card, as he took on Darmani Rock in a scheduled 10 rounder. The 11-0 Coffie was previously seen stopping Joey Abell in the second round back in November. The 17-0 Rock had last been spotted retiring Lorenzo Smith way back in 2019.
2:39 PM ET Future Hall of Famer Manny Pacquiao is still a world champion. Well, kind of. Pacquiao was designated by the WBA as a “champion in recess,” the sanctioning body said in a statement on Friday night. With the vacancy, Yordenis Ugas has been promoted to become the WBA’s top titleholder in the welterweight
More than any other time in modern history, any schedule right now still needs to come with a solid knock on wood, but after a very slow run where we got almost nothing of real note in January, the boxing schedule is set to heat up and get really busy in February. It’s honestly against
Mixed martial arts veteran Ben Askren, a former Bellator and ONE champion, admits he was surprised when Youtube star Jake Paul approached him for a pay-per-view boxing match. In fact, Askren barely knew who Paul even was. “Honestly, when he first called me out, I had heard the name but I didn’t know anything about
Posted on 01/30/2021 By: Sean Crose IBF super middleweight titlist Caleb Plant took on the popular veteran Caleb Truax in defense of his championship belt in the main event of Saturday’s PBC card, which was broadcast live by Fox from LA’s Shrine Exhibition Center. The PBC made a big deal out of the 20–0 Plant
10:48 PM ET Caleb Plant retained his IBF super middleweight title with a unanimous decision win over challenger Caleb Truax on Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles. All three judges gave every round to Plant, who won 120-108 on all three scorecards in a dominant performance in which he
Unbeaten super welterweight prospect Joey Spencer continued his fast rise up the ranks with an impressive first-round KO victory over Isiah Seldon (14-4-1, 5 KOs). In a bizarre sequence of events, the 20-year-old Spencer (12-0, 9 KOs) dropped Seldon with a hard right hand. Seldon rose at the count of eight. When action resumed, Seldon
Frank Warren hinted at a breakthrough in the Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua talks and said there is a strong possibility Oleksandr Usyk will end up facing Joe Joyce. Warren also spoke about Liam Williams ahead of a potential Andrade bout, Carl Frampton as he bids to become a three-weight world champion, Daniel Dubois as
Former two-time super middleweight titleholder Anthony Dirrell will return to the ring on Saturday, Feb. 27, headlining a PBC on FOX show that almost nobody will be paying attention to, as it is set to go head-to-head with Canelo Alvarez’s return on DAZN. There was some talk of the 36-year-old Dirrell (33-2-1, 24 KO) possibly
Joey Spencer knocked out Isiah Seldon almost as fast Saturday night as Mike Tyson knocked out Seldon’s father, Bruce, in their heavyweight title fight 24 years ago. Spencer dropped Seldon twice in the opening round before referee Jerry Cantu stopped their scheduled eight-round middleweight match just two minutes and 15 seconds into it. An emotional
Posted on 01/30/2021 By: Sean Crose Boxing returned to Fox on Saturday night as the main portion of a PBC card was broadcast live from LA’s Shrine Exhibition Center. First up, 11-0 junior middleweight Joey Spencer faced the 14-3-1 Isiah Seldon – son of former heavyweight Bruce Seldon – in a scheduled 8 rounder. The
4:11 PM ET Ryan Garcia’s dream of stepping into the ring to take on Manny Pacquiao will have to remain just that for now, according to his promoter. Golden Boy Promotions, which promotes the 22-year-old Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs), told ESPN Knockout that a fight between the two isn’t in the cards. “There’s nothing to
Tonight at 8 pm ET on FOX, Caleb Plant returns to action to defend the IBF super middleweight title against former titleholder Caleb Truax, as we finally find out which man is boxing’s top Caleb. Prelims will begin at 6 pm ET on FS1, and Wil Esco will be on round-by-round coverage for the main
The last time Caleb Truax sensed that a heavily favored IBF super middleweight champion underestimated him, he pulled off perhaps boxing’s biggest upset of 2017. Three years after defeating James DeGale in London, Truax, now 37, hopes to rejuvenate his career by knocking Caleb Plant out of position to land lucrative fights later this year.
Posted on 01/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Floyd Mayweather’s venture into the YouTube boxing business has come to an abrupt end. At least, for now. Over the course of several months, social media star Logan Paul attempted to lure Mayweather back into the ring one last time after officially hanging up his gloves in 2017. By
Errol Spence Jr and Yordenis Ugas may be heading for a three-belt unification fight at 147 pounds, following Ugas being promoted to WBA “super world champion” with Manny Pacquiao moved to “champion in recess.” The WBA’s move had a pretty clear destination, and this is it. Spence (27-0, 21 KO) has the WBC and IBF
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