The upcoming Triller pay-per-view card, scheduled for September 11 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, is receiving several undercard additions. The main event will feature the return of six division world champion Oscar De La Hoya, who faces former UFC champion Vitor Belfort in a sanctioned boxing match. De La Hoya will fight for the
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Posted on 08/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode The long climb back up the super middleweight ladder just got incredibly longer for David Benavidez. The former two-time 168-pound belt holder has been pulled from his showdown against former titlist Jose Uzcategui due to the 24-year-old testing positive for COVID-19. Originally, Benavidez (24-0, 21 KOs) and Uzcategui (31-4,
4:57 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Two MMA legends will fight, but it won’t be in a cage. Anderson Silva and Tito Ortiz have signed contracts to meet in an eight-round cruiserweight boxing match on Sept. 11 in the chief-support bout before Oscar De La Hoya faces Vitor Belfort in the pay-per-view main event, Triller co-founder
As you’ve surely heard by now, Errol Spence Jr is out of his scheduled Aug. 21 fight against Manny Pacquiao, with doctors finding a retina tear on the WBC/IBF welterweight titlist. That’s the bad news, and it’s truly bad news. It kills off an intriguing fight (at least for now?) and we can just hope
Eight-division world champion and Philippine Senator Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao continues to work hard at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, as he prepares to take on WBA welterweight world champion Yordenis Ugas of Cuba. (Photos by Wendell Alinea/MP Promotions) The fight will headline a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View Saturday, August 21 from T-Mobile Arena
Posted on 08/10/2021 By: Sean Crose “People don’t realize when I fought him,” says Oscar De La Hoya of former foe Manny Pacquiao, “I was a drained fighter.” However, while speaking to ES News, De La Hoya makes it clear he doesn’t want to take anything away from Pacquiao. “He’s still great,” the 48 year
7:32 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Guillermo Rigondeaux has heard it all before. He’s boring. Unwatchable. The opposite of entertaining. The two-time Olympic gold medalist absorbed all the criticism even as he was boxing circles around his opponents. Nonito Donaire, then the reigning ESPN fighter of the year, was thoroughly outboxed by Rigondeaux in 2013. Despite
As we continue to sort through the fallout of Errol Spence pulling out of his upcoming fight against Manny Pacquiao, Spence’s trainer Derrick James tells RingTV that he’s confident Spence will be able to make a return following surgery to repair a torn retina. With the scheduled fight just over a week away Yordenis Ugas
The professional boxing debut. A stressful moment in any case, but particularly so if you happen to be the grandson of “The Greatest.” But Nico Ali Walsh isn’t blinking in the days leading up to his Saturday bout against Jordan Weeks, even as he receives the type of attention and scrutiny few debuting pros get.
Posted on 08/10/2021 By: Sean Crose “Ugas is a very good fighter,” Errol Spence said last year of Yordenis Ugas, “but nobody knows who he is.” As of Tuesday it looks as if that’s all about to change. For Spence himself is suddenly out of an August 21st mega-bout against the one and only Manny
11:21 AM ET The World Boxing Association, one of the sport’s four major sanctioning bodies, will start enforcing a reduction policy for its number of championships, WBA president Gilberto Mendoza told ESPN Knockout last week. Mendoza, who was in Mexico City to present the junior flyweight division belt to “regular” champion Esteban Bermudez, said the
#PBCTimeOut: Unbeaten featherweight contender Mark Magsayo 22-0 (15 KOs) speaks with Ray Flores to preview his upcoming bout with Julio Ceja on the undercard of Manny Pacquiao vs Yordenis Ugas on August 21, 2021, live on FOX Sports PPV. Order #PacquiaoUgas NOW on PPV: https://pbcham.ps/PacUgasPPV-5 #MagsayoCeja Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT
Nathan Heaney was given a hero’s welcome at Stoke City during their Championship opener against Reading. No Filter Boxing takes you behind the scenes to the heart of the action as Heaney meets Stoke supporters, after selling 1,500 tickets for his next bout in the Midlands on August 28th. Watch him celebrate Stoke scoring, get
WBA welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas has found himself in a lucrative position. On Tuesday it was officially announced that WBC, IBF champion Errol Spence had suffered an eye injury and was forced to withdraw from his scheduled clash with Manny Pacquiao. Ugas, who was set to appear in the co-feature, will now face Pacquiao in
Posted on 08/10/2021 By: Hans Themistode Errol Spence Jr. was just a few weeks away from taking on Manny Pacquiao in what he described as his “dream matchup.” Now, after a recent trip to the doctor, Spence Jr. will be forced to the sidelines. What seemed to be a routine visit to the doctor’s office,
3:15 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Manny Pacquiao will still challenge for a welterweight title on Aug. 21 in Las Vegas — it just won’t be against Errol Spence Jr. The Filipino Senator will now face Cuba’s Yordenis Ugas after a retinal tear in Spence’s left eye was discovered during a pre-fight medical exam, PBC announced
WBO light flyweight champion Elwin Soto and mandatory challenger Jonathan Gonzalez successfully avoided a purse bid yesterday, and now ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez reports that the pair could meet stateside on September 18th. WBC flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez could also appear on the still-developing show against a “Filipino challenger.” WBC #7 Jayr Raquinel, #8 Giemel
Andre Rozier is not exactly looking forward to the idea of his charge, Daniel Jacobs, taking on fellow New Yorker and light heavyweight titleholder Joe Smith Jr. Jacobs and Smith are reportedly in talks to face each other in early 2022. Smith, however, has to come out victorious in his slated mandatory bout against Russia’s