Posted on 05/03/2024 By: Sean Crose “July 13th its gonna get nasty,” IBF welterweight titlist Jaron “Boots” Ennis posted on social media Friday. Indeed, on that day the uber talented Ennis will be entering the ring for the first time in close to a year. The fact Ennis will be facing challenger Cody Crowley in
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Posted on 05/04/2024 By: Sean Crose The highly anticipated June 1st fight between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol has been postponed due to an ruptured meniscus suffered by Beterbiev. This is bad news for fight fans, of course, as injuries have plagued the 20-0 Beterbiev’s career. What’s more, the world has been waiting a long
Posted on 05/04/2024 By: Sean Crose Let’s start with the fact that people believe Canelo Alvarez is slipping. He may only be 33 years of age, but the red haired star has faced a whose who of opponents, from Floyd Mayweather all the way down to Dmitry Bivol. These things take their toll. Throw in
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 05/05/2024 By: Sean Crose “He’s just not good enough for Canelo,” broadcaster Ariel Helwani said during Saturday night’s undisputed super middleweight title fight between Jaime Munguia and the legendary defending champion, Canelo Alvarez. Helwani was right. Munguia simply wasn’t good enough for Canelo. Why? Because Canelo had
Posted on 05/06/2024 By: Sean Crose He ended up victorious, but Naoya Inoue found himself in a place few expected him to be Monday in Tokyo, Japan – on the mat. A picture perfect left hook by challenger Luis Nery put undisputed super bantamweight champion Inoue down in the first round. Suffice to say, it
May 2024 The voters: Scott Christ, Wil Esco, John Hansen, Patrick Stumberg, and Lewis Watson Others Receiving Votes: Jaron “Boots” Ennis 5, Gervonta “Tank” Davis 2, Subriel Matias 1 (Editor’s Note: We’re leaving the comments as originally submitted, though there may be some different attitude toward the Haney vs Garcia result after Garcia’s failed drug
Canelo Alvarez takes on Jaime Munguia this Saturday in a pay-per-view main event from Las Vegas, defending the undisputed super middleweight championship of the world. Canelo (60-2-2, 39 KO) fully unified the 168 lb division with his win over Caleb Plant in late 2021, and has made three successful undisputed defenses since then, along with
Canelo Alvarez and Oscar De La Hoya had an altercation at yesterday’s final Canelo vs Munguia press conference which has picked up a lot of attention. Canelo and his former promoter De La Hoya are not friendly — to say the least — and haven’t been in years, and the beef between the two went
Canelo Alvarez’s fight on Saturday with Jaime Munguia will be the actual main event of this week in boxing, but Canelo’s feud with former promoter — and Munguia’s current promoter — Oscar De La Hoya has stolen the headlines during fight week. Canelo and De La Hoya had a verbal altercation on Wednesday at the
A week before cousin Tyson battles Oleksandr Usyk for undisputed heavyweight glory, Hughie Fury will have his second bout in under a month on Boxxer’s May 11th McCaskill vs Price show. Fury (27-3, 15 KO), who’s still just 29, just beat 10-15-1 Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko in his first bout since 2021. He faces a similarly nonexistent
Jaron Ennis’ homecoming is officially on the schedule, as Matchroom confirmed today that “Boots” will defend his IBF welterweight title against mandatory challenger Cody Crowley on July 13th at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out, this marks the first boxing match at Wells Fargo Center since it opened in 1996. Ennis
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn weighs in on the news about Ryan Garcia testing positive for banned substances for his fight with Devin Haney and the reaction he has along with his fighter Haney. Here are some excerpts of what Hearn had to say below. “I woke up to missed calls from Devin and a text
Christian Mbilli appears ready to make the leap onto the big stage of the super middleweight division. The Canada-based, Cameroonian-French contender is next set to fight Mark Heffron on May 25 and he’s already promising a spectacular performance. And if the 29-year-old Mbilli (26-0, 22 KOs) stays undefeated, co-promoter Bob Arum is ready to pit
LAS VEGAS – Something became very apparent Wednesday afternoon as the flow of people increased through the hotel walkways, as reporters searched in vain for an empty seat at the news conference and as the sport’s A-list celebrities created news in a blink. It’s a Canelo fight week, a spectacle that routinely takes on a
Jaron “Boots” Ennis will defend his welterweight title against Cody Crowley at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 13, Matchroom Boxing announced Thursday. In his first bout as a full titleholder, Ennis (31-0, 28 KOs) will return to his hometown to fight for the first time since November 2018. Ennis, 26, of Germantown, Pennsylvania,
In the days after Tim Tszyu surrendered his junior middleweight belt to Sebastian Fundora, the question was frequently asked: Should Tszyu’s corner have stopped the fight shortly after a stray Fundora elbow opened a bloody gash on Tszyu’s head at the end of Round 3? The never-ending crimson gusher certainly appeared to impede the Australian
LAS VEGAS – The beauty of being Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is that, as the most popular fighter in the world and an athlete who has already charted a decorated career course, he has the ability to move among promotions and streaming networks to make the best fights. As Alvarez, the undisputed super middleweight champion, now
LAS VEGAS – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s news-conference claims that his former promoter Oscar De La Hoya “tried to steal” from the fighter have been met by a legal letter asking that he retract the words while warning him to avoid repeat comments. “He said this outrageous lie not once, but several times – both in