11:35 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Adrien Broner withdrew from his junior welterweight fight Saturday vs. Omar Figueroa because of the need to address his mental health, he announced on Instagram. Sergey Lipinets will replace Broner in the PBC on Showtime main event in Hollywood, Florida, sources told ESPN. This is the second time a fight
Month: August 2022
#FigueroaLipinets Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-082022 Watch LIVE as fighters on the fight card headlined by a WBC super lightweight title eliminator between Omar Figueroa Jr. and Sergey Lipinets weigh-in ahead of their respective bouts on August 20, 2022, live on SHOWTIME from Hard Rock Seminole in Hollywood, FL! #Weigh-in #LiveStream Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info.
It’s official. After news broke this morning that Adrien Broner was withdrawing from this weekend’s Showtime main event against Omar Figueroa, Showtime has just announced that they’ve slotted Sergey Lipinets to take Broner’s place in the featured fight. Lipinets had already been lined up to appear on the undercard of this fight, and will now
Omar Figueroa Jr. quickly secured a new opponent Monday morning in the aftermath of Adrien Broner’s abrupt withdrawal from their fight scheduled for Saturday night. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Figueroa will square off against Sergey Lipinets in a “Showtime Championship Boxing” main event in Hollywood, Florida. Lipinets (16-2-1, 12 KOs) was readily available to step
Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose “Sorry to all my fans,” Adrien Broner posted on Instagram Monday morning, “but #MentalHealth is real and I’m not about to play inside the ring I’ve watched a lot of people die playing with they boxing career and that is something I won’t do (sic).” With those words, Broner made it
9:56 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show If you want some insight into how Saturday’s world heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua will go, Joe Joyce is a
ProBox TV, 9:00 pm ET, Juan Carlos Camacho Jr vs Fernando Diaz. This is a Miguel Cotto-promoted show and ProBox’s first from Puerto Rico. Glad to see them with another card so quickly, and looking to expand around for different deals and ideas. Bad Left Hook might have live coverage (at the very least we’ll
The animosity between Gennadiy Golovkin and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez was significantly elevated in 2018 – after Canelo tested positive for banned substance Clenbuterol, which postponed their rematch. Golovkin would call Canelo a cheater and questioned his past performances – including his ability to take big shots in their 2017 encounter which ended in a controversial
Posted on 08/14/2022 By: Sean Crose A dedicated North American boxing fan no doubt has known for a while that Anthony Joshua will try to win back the heavyweight belts he lost last fall to Oleksandr Usyk when he rematches the masterful Ukrainian this coming weekend in Saudi Arabia. What that dedicated North American boxing
Eddie Hearn, promoter of Anthony Joshua, believes Tyson Fury’s most recent retirement is nothing more than a publicity stunt to take away from of the shine from Joshua’s upcoming rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Joshua will attempt to reclaim the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight belts when he faces Usyk on August 20th in Saudi Arabia.
12:14 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former champion Teofimo Lopez rebounded from his first pro defeat with a seventh-round TKO of Mexican journeyman Pedro Campa on Saturday in Las Vegas. Lopez, 25, floored Campa with an up jab in Round 7 before he pinned his foe on the ropes and unloaded with a flurry of overhand
The rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua has finally been officially announced for DAZN in the United States and other markets, something that has been anticipated, reported independently, but still sat without an official announcement until today, six days before the bout on Aug. 20. Usyk (19-0, 13 KO) will be defending his WBA,
An Olympian with the Turkish National Team, Batyr Akhmedov carries himself like a silent assassin. He’s quiet, but is fundamentally sound and extremely dangerous. When he fought Manny Perez in September 2020, his body focused attack was more than enough to get him a victory inside of one round. Akhmedov returns to the ring on
Chris Eubank Jr. says he will have to call it a day if he can’t get his hands raised over Conor Benn. The longtime middleweight and super middleweight contender will face rising welterweight Benn in an intriguing all-British catchweight bout on Oct. 8 at The O2 Arena in London. Both fighters originate from distinguished British
Posted on 08/13/2022 By Sean Crose Xander Zayas, the rising 13-0 junior middleweight, took on the 22-4-0 Elias Espadas in a scheduled 8 rounder Saturday night at Resorts World Las Vegas. The match was the co-main event of Top Rank’s Teofimo Lopez-Pedro Campas card and was broadcast live by ESPN. The 19-0 Zayas got to work
9:07 AM ET Tyson Fury has vacated his Ring heavyweight title after he announced his retirement from boxing on Friday, Fury told The Ring Magazine. Fury, 34, tempted a comeback on Tuesday, saying he’d return from retirement to fight Derek Chisora. However, three days later, Fury announced in a social media post that he had
You may not be buying Tyson Fury’s handful of retirement announcements this year, the most recent of which came late last week after reports of a potential fight with Derek Chisora in December, and you wouldn’t be alone. I don’t buy it. Bob Arum doesn’t buy it. Most people probably don’t. The Ring have accepted
Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico – Former 105-pound world champion of the World Boxing Organization (WBO), Wilfredo ‘Bimbito’ Méndez from Trujillo Alto, suffered a knee injury so his main fight next Saturday, August 20th in Trujillo Alto against Israel Vázquez, from Bayamón, has been postponed until further notice. However, the event called ‘Sixt Boxing Nights’ will
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