#NoFilterBoxing takes you behind the scenes with Tyson Fury as he took over Wembley Stadium on the kick-off press conference for his huge heavyweight showdown with Dillian Whyte. #TysonFury #FuryWhyte Watch #FuryWhyte on BT Sport Box Office on Saturday, April 23rd. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on
Month: March 2022
Ryan Garcia’s April 9th return against Emmanuel Tagoe may not tickle many people’s fancies, but there’s at least one interesting fight on the card. Five-division titlist and reigning WBA flyweight champion Naoko Fujioka revealed yesterday that she’ll face WBC titlist Marlen Esparza in a unification match at the Alamodome. The 46-year-old Fujioka (19-2-1, 7 KO),
SAN DIEGO – Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will return to Las Vegas on Cinco de Mayo weekend for the first time in three years. The four-division champion and pound-for-pound king has settled on T-Mobile Arena as the home for his next fight versus WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (19-0, 11KOs). The bout will take place
Posted on 03/02/2022 By: Hans Themistode Errol Spence Jr. knows he won’t be in the ring with a pushover come April 16th. On the night, Spence Jr. will attempt to unify his WBC and IBF welterweight titles when he takes on WBA champion, Yordenis Ugas. The two will officially swap fists in front of Spence
During a video interview with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks a bit about Ryan Garcia’s upcoming fight against Emmanuel Tagoe, Garcia being roundly criticized as a part-time boxer, and if there are any big fights on the horizon for Garcia — including why a fight against
LOS ANGELES – One day after Canelo Alvarez threw yet another jab at Ryan Garcia and questioned his discipline and work ethic – which caused his former stablemate to fire back on Twitter to defend himself – Garcia was front and center in front of reporters at Golden Boy Promotions headquarters to ramp up promotion
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez is exceedingly popular in more ways than one. Not only does the man probably have more fans than any other single fighter in boxing, he essentially has every top operator in his general weight realm looking to engage him in a big money fight. Benevidez. Charlo. Golovkin.
7:52 AM ET Josh Taylor made a big statement in May, when he defeated Jose Ramirez to win all four major junior welterweight belts. Taylor had another opportunity to show the world that his victory wasn’t just a one-off this past weekend, when he faced mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. But while Taylor won a split
The comeback. Boxing’s dirty word. These days, it’s pinned on every fighter who suffers a loss, even if that fighter lost for the first time, and in a title unification bout, no less. So, as Jose Carlos Ramirez prepares to make the walk to the ring for the first time since a May defeat at
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Hans Themistode There was a bitter look of disappointment plastered across the face of Gennadiy Golovkin. The IBF middleweight titlist and future Hall of Famer had long been hoping to share the ring with fellow middleweight belt holder, Ryota Murata. The two were originally scheduled
9:41 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryota Murata is all that stands in the way of a third fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin. And now, there’s finally a date for the middleweight title unification between Golovkin and Murata. They’ll meet April 9 at Saitama Arena in Saitama, Japan, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. GGG-Murata
Three months after COVID restrictions in Japan forced a postponement, we may finally have a new date for the middleweight unification between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports the fight will happen in Saitama, Japan on April 9th. Sources: The Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata middleweight title unification is set for April 9 in
Rising lightweight Jose Valenzuela (11-0, 7 KOs) scored a dominating fourth-round stoppage over Austin Dulay (14-3, 10 KOs). Valenzuela took control of the fight from the outset, scoring his first knockdown of the fight with a big combination punctuated by a left hook that sent Dulay to the canvas in round one. Valenzuela followed up
The best bits as Tyson Fury speaks to the media about Dillian Whyte, the situation in Ukraine with the Klitschkos, Lomachenko and Usyk, and fighting at Wembley. Watch #FuryWhyte on BT Sport Box Office on Saturday, April 23rd. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing
Super lightweight Sandor Martin (39-2) will headline the first Matchroom show of the year in Barcelona, Spain on April 1, reports Espabox. No opponent is named. Also on the bill could be featherweight Samuel Carmona (6-0) and super featherweight Moussa Gholam (19-0). The show is not yet announced by Matchroom. Matchroom are also promoting a
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Sean Crose Give heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte this – he’s determined not to let WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury get inside his head before the two men meet on April 23’d. What other reason, one might wonder, could there have possibly been for Whyte to have avoided Tuesday’s press
3:40 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury found himself in a familiar role on Tuesday in London. The heavyweight champion carried the promotion ahead of his trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder last year, as the challenger refused to answer questions from the media at the kick-off news conference. And now, for the second consecutive bout,
One day after the WBA announced a series of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian fighters, its fellow alphabet organizations released their own restrictions, namely a resolution to “not certify any championship fights involving boxers from Russia and Belarus.” The announcement is desperately short on specifics, such as whether fighters originally from those countries but now