Rafael Espinoza will make the first defense of his WBO featherweight title on Friday, June 21, headlining a Top Rank on ESPN+ card from Las Vegas. The 30-year-old Espinoza (24-0, 20 KO) pulled a major upset to take the title from Robeisy Ramirez last December, a huge breakthrough victory for the Mexican. He now takes
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It would be rude not to start in Perth as Vasiliy Lomachenko looks to get back on the winning horse against the game home-favourite George Kambosos Jr. Both guys are licking their Devin Haney inflicted wounds having gone a combined 0-3 against the “Dream” between 2022-23, but despite being six years his senior, Lomachenko comes
Jaron “Boots” Ennis and Cody Crowley went head-to-head in Philadelphia on Friday, formally announcing their fight. IBF welterweight champion Ennis and mandatory challenger Crowley will reconvene at the Wells Fargo Center – where they met today – on July 13. It marks a homecoming for the 32-year-old Ennis, and his first fight on DAZN under
Cody Crowley struggled to make himself heard inside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center today, but he passionately stated that he had identified Jaron “Boots” Ennis as the fighter he wanted to meet for a world title. Crowley will challenge Philadelphia’s Ennis in the latter’s home city on July 13, at the Wells Fargo Center, and Crowley
In Thursday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Shawn Porter compares the profiles of 36-year-old former three-division titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko to that of 33-year-old Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Porter says, despite recent talk of Lomachenko’s decline, that the Ukrainian lightweight “still has what it takes to become a champion.” He also has a favorite
Lennox Lewis was not only the last man to really beat the man in the heavyweight division, he was also the last boxer to preside over the division without argument. For Tyson Fury to do the same, Lewis believes it will take more than just victory over Oleksandr Usyk on May 18. A contracted rematch
Lauren Price hopes a victory over Jessica McCaskill on Saturday can trigger a new golden era for Welsh boxing. In her seventh professional fight, she challenges the WBA welterweight champion at Wales’ Cardiff International Arena, aware that she can join her compatriot Joe Cordina in reigning among the elite. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2020,
Three-division world champion Shakur Stevenson has reached a career crossroads. The Newark, New Jersey native Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) will look to defend his WBC lightweight title in a homecoming fight against Artem Harutyunyan (12-1, 7 KOs) on July 6 at the Prudential Center. The fight will mark Stevenson’s last under his current contract with
Australia’s Andrew Moloney has branded his WBC interim super flyweight title fight with Pedro Guevara as the “last roll of the dice” for both men. Moloney (26-3, 16 KOs) and Guevara (41-4-1, 22 KOs) join the undercard of Vasiliy Lomachenko and George Kambosos’s vacant IBF lightweight title fight this Sunday in Perth, Australia. “At this
Unbeaten welterweight Conor Benn has been “provisionally suspended” by United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) following a successful appeal by UKAD and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC). The appeal overturned Benn’s clearance to return to competition after two failed VADA anti-doping tests in 2022. Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) tested positive for clomifene twice while preparing
In Thursday’s episode of “Deep Waters” on ProBox TV, analyst Chris Algieri discussed the possibility of a future matchup between unified junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue and former three-division titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko, who is set to face George Kambosos Jr. in a lightweight bout Sunday in Perth, Australia. Algieri is skeptical about Inoue moving up
Latvian light heavyweight Ricards Bolotniks says he is ready to take on fast-tracked Russian Imam Khataev in a matchup in which he believes his experience will prevail. Bolotniks (20-7-1, 8 KOs) will face off against Khataev (6-0, 6 KOs), a bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, on the undercard of the Vasiliy Lomachenko-George Kambosos
Shakur Stevenson’s upcoming title defense agaisnt Artem Harutyunyan is now a doubleheader, as Mike Coppinger reports that O’Shaquie Foster will defend his WBC super featherweight title against Robson Conceicao in the July 6th co-feature. After an absolutely terrific slugfest with “Rocky” Hernandez in his inaugural title defense last October, Foster (22-2, 12 KO) returned to
TMZ brings word that WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo was arrested last night and charged with multiple misdemeanors after allegedly crashing his Lamborghini into another car, fleeing police officers for nearly a mile, and registering a BAC higher than .15. Charlo’s attorney tells TMZ that neither party in the original accident were injured. Charlo (33-0,
Trainer Vergil Hunter breaks down Naoya Inoue’s latest big win over Luis Nery and discusses an idea being floated about him possibly facing Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis in the future. Here Hunter says that Inoue isn’t in need of coming to the U.S. to grow his star, but if he would be willing to move up
After more than 1,000 days without a title defense, the WBC has finally stripped Jermall Charlo of his middleweight title on the heels of Charlo’s arrest for DWI. The WBC has provided and will continue to do as much as possible to support Jermall Charlo during his difficult times with regards to Mental Wellness. The
Ryan Garcia and his lawyer Darin Chavez seek to have a B-sample of the fighter’s blood tested, which will take place on May 22, following reports that he tested positive for a banned substances following his win over Devin Haney. In a letter that ESPN obtained from Garcia’s lawyer, Chavez states that while Garcia’s A-sample
Speaking with Sky Sports, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has grand designs on a matchup between two of boxing’s best fighters in Vasiliy Lomachenko and Shakur Stevenson later on this year. Lomachenko is currently slated to take on George Kambosos this weekend in Perth and Arum continues to credit Lomachenko’s exceptional skill as a boxing
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