7:46 AM ET There’s a new face atop the junior lightweight division. Alycia Baumgardner continued her massive rise by beating Mikaela Mayer by split decision to become the unified champion at 130 pounds, now holding the IBF, WBC and WBO belts. Baumgardner (13-1, 7 KO) jumped out early in the fight to take a lead
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LONDON — I’d love to tell you that there was a different feeling inside London’s O2 Arena on Saturday night, but in truth, there wasn’t. The same characters swayed along the gangways, balancing six beers across two trembling hands. The same queues snaked around corners for overpriced pizza and chips. And the same rendition of
The one-sided nature of their first fight and direct competition from a boxing pay-per-view show apparently impacted viewership of the Devin Haney-George Kambosos Jr. rematch Saturday night on ESPN. Nielsen Media Research revealed that their second 135-pound championship match drew an average audience of 935,000. Viewership peaked at 970,000 for a main event that ended
7:45 AM ET Claressa Shields is back on top in the ESPN women’s pound-for-pound rankings after a dominant victory over Savannah Marshall. With the victory, Shields (13-0, 2 KOs), became the undisputed middleweight champion for the second time. She is the first fighter, male or female, to be undisputed in the same division twice. She’s
As reports suggest that we’re nearing a junior welterweight rematch between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall, who officially lost a much disputed split decision to Taylor the first time around, Catterall says he’s even more confident in his ability to compete at the highest level and looks to turn things up a notch. There’s no
Adrien Broner wasn’t too pleased when he heard that Conor Benn tested for a banned substance. The brash multi-weight champion from Cincinnati was often invoked as a possible option for Benn, the rising welterweight whose fight with Chris Eubank Jr., at a 157-pound catchweight, was axed earlier this month after it was revealed that Benn,
Joe Calzaghe joins David Haye, Josh Denzel and Carl Frampton on Chatterbox – BT Sport’s new monthly programme which will review everything boxing. The crew looks back at Joe Calzaghe’s INCREDIBLE undefeated career. #Chatterbox #JoeCalzaghe #DavidHaye Go to btsport.com or the App for the full show ➡️ http://www.bt.com/sport/watch/video/clips/2022/september/chatterbox-joyce-calzaghe-haye-and-frampton?s_cid=con_social_bt-sport_youtube__ Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube
Bear with me here. The agreement that made Canelo-GGG 3 possible stipulated that Gennadiy Golovkin, who holds both the IBF and WBA “super” middleweight titles, immediately face WBA “world” champion Erislandy Lara afterwards. By all accounts, there were no other options; Golovkin’s choices were to make a deal by October 23rd, roll the dice on
An all-Filipino clash is in store to determine the next mandatory challenger to the IBF junior flyweight title. Unbeaten contenders Mark Vicelles and Regie Suganob have both accepted an invitation to enter negotiations for a final IBF title eliminator, an IBF spokesperson confirmed to BoxingScene.com on Tuesday. A negotiation period has been ordered, with the
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 10/18/2022 By: Sean Crose “It was a good fight,” super middleweight David Benavidez says in an interview with FightHype. “I give it to both the guys. I feel this fight builds it up more to make mine and Caleb’s fight that much more exciting.” The hard hitting
Oct 15, 2022 Claressa Shields stood inside the ring in the middle of the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night, her eyes looking around at the British crowd that had just watched her assert why she is the greatest women’s fighter of all time. She got emotional. All that had happened, both in the
Devin Haney interviewed by Radio Rahim at The Top Rank Boxing Gym in Las Vegas ahead of the rematch fight with George Kambosos in Melbourne, Australia. He also talks about Tank Davis, Ryan Garcia and more. Subscribe for updates – http://goo.gl/meA2GB Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/VDYVMP Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondsoutlive SecondsOut is a world leader in
Hey! It’s Tuesday, so that means it’s podcast day with myself and John Hansen here at Bad Left Hook. We’re up later than usual this week, as we had to delay our normal recording schedule by a full day, but we’re here! We’ve got ALL that good boxing talk. Furthermore, the delay means I am
Peter McGrail will have “unfinished business” on his mind when he fights on the undercard of a monster show in Japan this December. The gifted super bantamweight has secured a place on the undercard of the undisputed world bantamweight title showdown between Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler in Tokyo. McGrail returns to Japan on December
Posted on 10/18/2022 By: Sean Crose “I think for me it was the perfect time,” Michael B Jordan said at a Monday press conference to promote his new film, Creed 3. “I finally got to the place in my career where I wanted to tell a story.” Although this is the third time Jordan is
Oct 17, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui are finalizing a deal for a super middleweight bout slated for January, sources told ESPN. The pair were set to square off in November 2021 before Uzcategui tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug rEPO (recombinant erythropoietin), a synthetic version of EPO. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs)
As recent news broke that Josh Taylor is headed towards a rematch with Jack Catterall, Taylor has revealed that he’s make a change in his camp as he’s now given the reigns over to Joe McNally to act as his lead trainer. Taylor has previously been working with Ben Davison as lead trainer, but as