Junior middleweight Xander Zayas has arrived at an interesting but not-uncommon inflection point in his boxing career. With a record of 18-0 (12 KOs) and set to headline his first show in Saturday’s 10-rounder against former titleholder Patrick Teixeira, Puerto Rico’s Zayas can no longer be called a prospect. Yet at age 21, and without
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Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez will not rule out the possibility of a “5 vs 5”-style event featuring boxers from Golden Boy taking on fighters from Top Rank. In fact, he even has a dream fight that he would love to see on such a card. “Obviously Teofimo [Lopez] and Ryan Garcia’s a great
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Add one more dispute to the ongoing saga of the Ryan Garcia-Devin Haney fight. Hours after both Garcia and Haney questioned where their earnings from the bout are, Golden Boy Promotions shot back with a written response accompanied by a backhanded slap at the fighters’ social media work. Garcia
By: Sean Crose Deontay Wilder, the former WBC heavyweight champion of the world, returns to the ring this Saturday when he takes on the popular and powerful Zhilei Zhang in a scheduled 12 rounder in Saudi Arabia. Wilder, who some have believed is the most powerful puncher boxing has ever seen in its long and
By: Sean Crose “The upcoming highly anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson will unfortunately be postponed.” So stated Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions in a Friday press release. The reason? Mike Tyson’s reported ulcer flare up, which occurred while the former heavyweight champion was on a plane in flight to Los Angeles
By: Sean Crose Deontay Wilder was once regarded as being one of the best heavyweights on earth. And indeed the man was. The Alabama native’s power was so potent that it was argued the man was the hardest puncher in the history of the sport of boxing. Three brutal wars with Tyson Fury, however, plus
By: Sean Crose So yes, it looks like the end is nigh for former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Even if the towering Alabaman continues to fight after his crushing stoppage loss to Zhilei Zhang this past Saturday in Saudi Arabia, it’s hard to imagine the 38 year old returning to the thunderous form fans
By: Sean It’s happened many times before: A relatively unknown fighter steps into the boxing ring to take on an big name opponent and subsequently shocks the world. Twenty-nine year old lightweight Frank Martin hopes that his fight against Gervonta Davis on June 15th will end up being one of those instances. Although Martin has
By: Sean Crose He’s widely seen as one of the faces of boxing’s future. At just 26 years of age, Jaron “Boots” Ennis is a powerful, sharp and extremely fluid welterweight waiting for a big fight. Or, in this case, any fight at all. For the 31-0 Ennis was set to fight Cody Crowley for
By: Sean Crose Speaking to Fight Hub former welterweight titlist Errol Spence made it clear that he feels his fighter, Frank Martin, is going to shock the world by besting Gervonta “Tank” Davis on June 15th in Las Vegas. “I see him getting his hand raised,” Spence said of the undefeated Martin. “I feel like
By: Sean Crose It appears the show will still go on. After the July novelty bout between former heavyweight legend Mike Tyson and the brash Jake Paul was postponed due to an in-flight incident involving an inflamed ulcer Tyson was suffering from, a new date has been set. “New date, same place, same fate,” Paul
By: Sean Crose Adrien Broner returned to the ring for the first time in nearly a year on Friday night. His opponent was the widely unknown but determined Blair Cobb. The scheduled ten round affair went down at the Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida and was broadcast live on pay per view. The 35-5-1 Broner
Salvador Rodriguez, confirming an earlier report from Viva Promotions, brings word that former featherweight champion Mark Magsayo will meet Eduardo Ramirez in a “WBC Super Featherweight title eliminator” on PBC’s June 15th Gervonta Davis vs Frank Martin show in Las Vegas. Magsayo (25-2, 17 KO) is best known for freeing the WBC featherweight title from
Well, that didn’t take long. Just three days after Christian Mbilli’s 40-second wipeout of Mark Heffron, Top Rank has officially announced “Solide’s” previously revealed August 17th showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko. ESPN and ESPN+ carry the broadcast in the States, Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland. As I mentioned in the post above, Mbilli (27-0,
Former undisputed welterweight champion Terence Crawford is another belt lighter at 147 with the WBC moving to name Crawford their champion in recess as he gets set to challenge Israil Madrimov for a 154 lb WBA world title on Aug. 3. The move presumably makes space for others to either contend or move into the
Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will meet again, with Turki Alalshikh announcing that the heavyweights will square off in their expected rematch on Saturday, Dec. 21, from Saudi Arabia. Usyk defeated Fury on May 18 in Riyadh, becoming boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight champion in the four-belt era, unifying the WBC, WBA, IBF, and WBO titles.
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Heavyweight Zhilei Zhang will be back in action this weekend when he takes on Deontay Wilder in Saudi Arabia, and says he still looks as Wilder as the dangerous fighter he was known as a few years ago. But despite his expectations to face a fully motivated Wilder, Zhang
As Dmitry Bivol readies himself to take on a replacement opponent this weekend, he talks to reporters about learning the news of Artur Beterbiev’s injury which will pushed back their heavily anticipated meeting. Instead Bivol will take on Malik Zinad this weekend but is still confident that his fight with Beterbiev will take place at
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