Two former world champions, a heavyweight knockout artist, and a US. Olympic silver medalist take the spotlight Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round main event, Puerto Rico’s former two-weight world champion Jose “Sniper” Pedraza (29-4, 14 KOs) will battle former lightweight champion Richard “RC”
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Posted on 08/25/2022 By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez. Jermell Charlo. Devin Haney. What do these three men have in common? They’re all undisputed champions in their respective divisions. Canelo owns the super middleweight realm, Charlo the junior middleweight and Haney the lightweight. Undisputed champions are highly regarded not just for their accomplishments, but for the
Sebastian Fundora will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 8, facing Carlos Ocampo in a Showtime main event, defending his interim WBC 154 lb title. The card, which was announced on last Saturday’s Showtime event but may have been missed by a few of you, so we’re telling you about it officially! here anyway, will
Jose Pedraza didn’t hesitate to take another difficult fight after his points loss to Jose Ramirez five months ago. From Pedraza’s perspective, beating Richard Commey on Saturday night will move him into position to secure a 140-pound title shot, something that has eluded the two-division champion since he moved up from the lightweight division. Like
Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler have agreed to terms for an undisputed bantamweight championship fight on Dec. 13 in Japan, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger. It’s the fight that was expected for both, as Butler (34-2, 15 KO) made very clear his immediate interest in facing Inoue (23-0, 20 KO) following the latter’s destructive second
Naoya Inoue will delay his pursuit of a fourth divisional crown long enough to chase history. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a deal has been in place for an undisputed bantamweight championship clash between Japan’s Inoue and England’s Paul Butler. The lineal/WBA/WBC/IBF/WBO title fight will take place December 13 at a location to be determined in
Posted on 08/24/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury certainly knows how to stir the pot. Whether he’s showing up dressed as Batman for a news conference, jumping in and out of retirement, or making outrageous statements online, the undefeated WBC and lineal heavyweight champion always finds a way to shake things up. Wednesday was no
8:25 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler have agreed to terms on an undisputed bantamweight championship fight Dec. 13 in Japan, sources told ESPN. Inoue, a star boxer in Japan who is ESPN’s No. 2 pound-for-pound boxer, will attempt to unify all four belts for the first time in his career (he
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Top Rank’s Bob Arum has plans for Vasiliy Lomachenko, who will soon be making his return to the ring to face Jamaine Ortiz in New York according to the longtime promoter. First, Arum will have Lomachenko come back against Ortiz in order for him to get back in the groove of things after taking some
Alberto “La Avispa” Puello (21-0) made history Saturday night in Hollywood, Florida. Puello captured the WBA super lightweight title with a split decision victory over Botirzhon Akhmedov (9-2). The final scores were 117-111 in favor of Puello on two scorecards which overruled the 115-113 score in favor of Akhmedov. With the victory, Puello became the
Posted on 08/24/2022 By: Sean Crose He may not have an extensive, or even very impressive, resume but there’s no denying Jake Paul is one of the most well known figures in all of professional boxing. When Jake talks, people listen. Lately, however, things haven’t been going the social media influencer turned pro fighter’s way.
Jake Paul recently stated he’d be back in October, and now says he has an opponent signed for the fight. He’d previously guaranteed it would be a professional boxer with a winning record, which could mean a million people you’ve never heard of before in your life. Paul was meant to fight on Aug. 6,
Not even Barry Hearn believes his star charge Anthony Joshua did quite enough to beat Oleksandr Uysk. The founder and president of Matchroom Sport, Hearn offered an honest assessment of Joshua’s performance against Ukraine’s Usyk in their heavyweight title unification rematch last Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The fight went the distance, with Usyk winning
10:46 AM ET Oleksandr Usyk delivered another impressive performance in a split decision victory over Anthony Joshua on Saturday to retain the WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight world titles. He also added the vacant Ring belt, making him the lineal champion in the division. This was a rematch of Usyk’s unanimous decision win over Joshua
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Promoters Bob Arum and Frank Warren are both confident that an undisputed heavyweight championship fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will happen, following Usyk’s rematch win over Anthony Joshua this past Saturday. Fury (32-0-1, 23 KO) still holds the WBC title despite being officially retired, a position he’s
Gennadiy Golovkin is less than a month away from his grudge match with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. On September 17th, Golovkin will face Canelo for a third time at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. They initially fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in 2017. A year later, Canelo won a very close twelve