By: Sean Crose “Earlier this week, I finalized a deal to acquire 100% of The Ring Magazine, and I want to make a few things clear.” So said Saudi Arabia’s sports honcho, Turki Alalshikh on social media Monday. “The print version of the magazine will return immediately after a two year hiatus,” he continued, “and
Month: November 2024
By: Sean Crose Writing for Boxing Insider, I named it 2022’s fight of the year. For Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano had put on a show for the ages. “Talyor-Serrano wasn’t just a back and forth affair,” I wrote at the time, “it was a seesaw battle where the combatants were among the best in
Tropicana Atlantic City is where it was happening – every week – in the 1980s By Boxing Insider staff Atlantic City was home to one of the more unusual boxing series the sport has seen over the past 40+ years; unusual in the respect that it was conducted on a weekly basis. This was something
By: Sean Crose In just under a month, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will battle for heavyweight supremacy for the second time. Their first fight ended with Usyk being crowned undisputed king of the division by a razor sharp decision. No one knows how the second fight will play out, only that it’s good for
By: Sean Crose WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios made the first defense of his title Friday night against Abel Ramos on the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul undercard. The fight, which was scheduled for twelve, went down at AT&T stadium outside Dallas and was broadcast live on Netflix. The 29-2 Barrios rattled the 28-6-2 Ramos early on
By: Sean Crose Their first fight was a war. Katie Taylor ended up winning a squeaker over Amanda Serrano, but the bout truly could have gone either way. That was back in 2022. Friday night at AT&T Stadium, Taylor and Serrano got it on for the second time as the co-main event of the Mike
By: Sean Crose After almost 20 years removed from the ring, the one and only Mike Tyson slipped between the ropes at AT&T Stadium Friday night to fight social media star turned hard hitting combatant Jake Paul. At 58 years of age, Tyson was the underdog. The 27 year old Paul, however, had never faced
By: Sean Crose The Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City hosted a Boxing Insider Promotions card Saturday featuring undefeated junior middleweight Justin Figueroa. First, however, the 3-0 Bruce Seldon Jr took on the 3-4 Julio Mendoza in a heavyweight affair scheduled for 4. Suffice to say, Seldon completely dominated, though, to his credit, Mendoza proved
By: Sean Crose The 15-0 Avious Griffin took on the 12-2-1 Adrian Gutierrez in a scheduled welterweight 8 rounder Saturday night in Atlantic City. The first two rounds were exciting as both men had their moments. A single, powerful straight right ended up putting Gutierrez down and out in the third. “I give me like
what’s it all mean? By: Sean Crose Sixty million. Households. Not individuals. Households. Sixty million. That’s the number of homes that tuned in for last Friday’s Mike Tyson-Jake Paul novelty bout. At it’s highest point, the fight had sixty-five million homes tuning in. That’s more than two times as much as your weekly NFL game.
It’s that time of the week again and Oscar De La Hoya takes to social media to give his take on topics in boxing including an idea that’s been floated regarding Golden Boy going against Matchroom in a five-fight card. “There have been rumors that my company may do a five on five against Matchroom
Osleys Iglesias risks his undefeated record (and the IBO super middleweight title!) against Petro Ivanov tonight in the main event of an ESPN+ showcase from Montreal. Broadcast coverage of the undercard will start at 7 pm ET on ESPN+, and Bad Left Hook will have live updates starting a little later in the evening. Iglesias
Osleys Iglesias didn’t stumble at all under the main event spotlight, staying undefeated with a fifth round stoppage of Petro Ivanov in Montreal. It was a relatively long night of work for Iglesias, who took longer to close the show against the relatively unknown Ivanov than he did earlier this year against Sena Agbeko, Evgeny
Keyshawn Davis returns to action tonight to face Gustavo Lemos in a 10-round main event, headlining a Top Rank card on ESPN+. The live stream starts at 10 pm ET. There is a bit of a taint on tonight’s matchup, as Lemos blew weight terribly, coming in 6.4 lbs heavy on the scales on Thursday.
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks to Fight Hype about a number of topics in the boxing world including this weekend’s card featuring Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez, potential fights for Ryan Garcia, Gervonta Davis vs Lamont Roach and more. Check out some of what he had to say below. Hearn on Henry Garcia
Keyshawn Davis made an extraordinary case for a title shot in Norfolk tonight, torching an overweight Gustavo Lemos in under two rounds. Argentina’s Lemos (29-1, 19 KO) got robbed of a win over Richardson Hitchins earlier this year and entered the ring at a staggering 155 pounds after missing the lightweight limit by 6.4 pounds
Two of boxing’s brightest rising stars return tonight, as Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez make world title defenses in Philadelphia. The show will stream live starting at 7 pm ET on DAZN. Wil Esco has your live updates and coverage tonight. Ennis, 27, defends his IBF welterweight title in a not-so-hotly anticipated rematch
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (33-0, 29 KOs) promised to put on a definitive performance that included a knockout of Karen Chukhadzhian (24-3, 13 KOs) in tonight’s rematch, but that’s not at all the way things played out. Unlike the first meeting between the two, where Chukhadzhian fought a negative, keep-away style, Chukhadzhian came to fight and