Month: April 2022

Posted on 04/07/2022 By: Sean Crose Give longtime heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte this – he’s not going to let WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury get inside his head. As the clock winds down to the Fury-Whyte heavyweight title bout, which will go down in front of 94,000 people at Wembley Stadium on April
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7:48 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Gennadiy Golovkin stormed through the red, white and blue ropes encompassing the ring in disgust and made a beeline for his dressing room. He wasn’t interested in sticking around at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for the customary postfight interview. What was left to be said? Golovkin firmly believed he
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As expected, the WBA has officially ordered “super” featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz to face “world” champion Leigh Wood as part of their surprisingly consistent title reduction effort. The pair have 30 days as of today (meaning until May 6th) to come to terms and avoid a purse bid. Santa Cruz (38-2-1, 19 KO) has
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Mikaela Mayer is not giving up on her quest to become undisputed champion.  The cooperation from her counterparts—or lack thereof—could ultimately determine at which weight division she can transform her vision into a reality.  The reigning IBF/WBO junior lightweight queen—who is also the recognized Ring Magazine champion—has called for showdowns with the remaining champions, WBC
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Sebastian Fundora towered over Jorge Cota in their May 1, 2021 WBA Super Middleweight title eliminator bout. Over 6″ taller then Cota and a 7″ reach advantage, Fundora could easily fight at a distance to control the pace of the fight by outboxing his opponents. Instead, he chose violence, fighting toe-to-toe with Cota in close
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Las Vegas native Nico Ali Walsh, grandson of “The Greatest,” hopes to make a statement for the hometown fans. Ali Walsh will fight Denver’s Alejandro Ibarra in a four-round middleweight attraction Saturday, April 30, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Ali Walsh-Ibarra will open the televised broadcast featuring the world junior lightweight title unification showdown
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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 04/06/2022 By: Hans Themistode Normally stoic and stone-faced, Errol Spence Jr. couldn’t stop himself from smiling when Manny Pacquiao inked his name on the dotted line. Having watched Pacquiao fight as a youngster, Spence Jr. believed that a matchup against the surefire future first ballot Hall of
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Groupe Yvon Michel recently announced that after nearly two years on the sidelines, former light heavyweight champion Eleider Alvarez will return to action on May 5th in a cruiserweight bout against TBA. Alvarez (25-2, 13 KO), who famously flattened Sergey Kovalev for the WBO title in 2018 before losing it in their rematch, hasn’t fought
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Claressa Shields is not too enamored with the idea of unifying her middleweight titles in her opponent’s backyard. Shields, the WBC, WBA, and IBF women’s middleweight champion, is on a collision course to face WBO middleweight titlist Savannah Marshall in a full unification bout this summer on Sky Sports, which has both fighters under exclusive
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