Indonesian lightweight boxer Hero “The Lion” Tito (29-16-2, 11 KO’s) fell into a coma from blows received during a tough national title fight Sunday, February 27, at the plush Holywings Night Club Gatot Subroto located in Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta. The 35-year-old Hero Tito (whose birth name is Heru Purwanto) engaged in a hard-fought rumble
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Posted on 02/28/2022 By: Hans Themistode Most of the world has sat back in horror as the war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified. In an effort to bolster their defenses, several Ukrainian boxing stars are lending their homeland a helping hand. Those would include former three-division titlist Vasiliy Lomachenko, current unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr
12:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the nation seeks to defend itself against an invasion from Russia that began Thursday. The Olympic gold medalist is the latest boxer to take up arms in Ukraine. Usyk’s longtime friend, Vasiliy Lomachenko, also joined a territorial
Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights this week: Junior Welterweight: (4) Jose Ramirez vs (6) Jose Pedraza, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (9) Joet Gonzalez vs Jeo Santisima, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (3) Mauricio Lara vs Emilio Sanchez, Mar. 5 Junior Bantamweight: (4) Chocolatito Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez, Mar. 5 Flyweight: (1) Julio Cesar Martinez vs
Vergil Ortiz Jr. has suddenly become a sought-after commodity after spending years on the hunt. The unbeaten contender has seen his name linked to several potential fights in a welterweight division with pound-for-pound level champions and a contender crop ripe with talent. The vision of soon challenging for a major title prompted Ortiz’s handlers to
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose Standing before an unremarkable brick wall, the generally reserved former heavyweight titlist Wladimir Klitschko addressed the world today with uncommon intensity. “I am addressing the entire world to stop this war that Russia has started,” he said, looking the camera dead on. “Just today, civilians were shot by the
8:00 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. The result of Saturday’s undisputed junior welterweight championship fight between champion Josh Taylor and challenger Jack Catterall hasn’t sat well with me. The challenger did everything he was supposed to do to win, but the judges handed Taylor a split-decision victory. I watched the fight a second time on
Earlier this week, we shared the news that former heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko committed to defend their country against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has joined the fight as well. A Facebook post from Lomachenko said: The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed. In the
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A bureaucratic measure or two apparently is all that stands in the way of the rematch between Naoya Inoue and Nonito Donaire, according to promoter Bob Arum. The Top Rank Inc. boss, who co-promotes Japan’s IBF and WBA 118-pound champion Inoue, said he believes a re-run of the pair’s well-received title bout in 2019 in
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Hans Themistode Throughout most of their fight build-up, Jack Catterall locked his eyes on Josh Taylor’s IBF, WBO, WBA, WBC, and Ring Magazine 140 pound titles. The British native craved championship glory and was steadfast in his belief that his moment in the sun had finally arrived. Although Catterall marched through
6:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko, ESPN’s No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the country attempts to fend off an invasion from Russia. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is shown armed in military fatigues in an image posted to his Facebook page on Sunday. The 34-year-old traveled
Former Wilder foe and heavyweight southpaw Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz returned to STAPLES Center for a second consecutive victory with a resounding 10th-round TKO against Travis “My Time” Kauffman. #LuisOrtiz #OrtizKauffman #TravisKauffman Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: http://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
Lawrence Okolie didn’t get the knockout and didn’t have the most exciting fight, to put it mildly, but he retained his WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Michal Cieslak in London. Okolie took the cards on scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 117-110. Bad Left Hook had the fight 117-110 for Okolie. It was
Olympic gold medal-winner Galal Yafai made a pretty impressive professional debut as he stopped the gallant Carlos Vado Bautista in the fifth round of a flyweight ten-rounder made for the WBC international belt. Yafai – who won flyweight gold for Great Britain in Tokyo last summer – was happy to trade and take the occasional
Posted on 02/27/2022 By: Sean Crose Former junior welterweight titlist Viktor Postol, 31-3-0, appeared on Saturday’s Showtime card as he faced the undefeated 14-0 Gary Russell in a scheduled 10 round junior welterweight affair. This fight had a tragic element to it, as Postol’s wife and twin sons are currently stranded in war torn Ukraine.
10:39 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The four governing organizations responsible for overseeing boxing title matchups around the world — the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO — announced in a joint statement that they won’t sanction any such bouts in Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine. Currently, two Russians hold major titles. Dmitry Bivol, ESPN’s
Lawrence Okolie will make the second defense of his WBO cruiserweight title today in London, taking on Poland’s Michal Cieslak in a 12-round main event from O2 Arena. The fights will stream live at Noon ET on DAZN, with prelim action starting at 10 am ET. Along with Okolie vs Cieslak, the show will feature
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