Marvin Hagler was a true fighting man. Marvelous Marvin defined toughness, incited violence and encouraged war inside the ring, so much so that the former middleweight giant would have looked down at the American Airlines Center this weekend with a mischievous snarl across his face. Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez delivered what was expected.
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Canelo Alvarez and Eddie Hearn have been going steady in their fighter-promoter relationship ever since the boxing superstar freed himself from his Golden Boy Promotions contract in November. Although Alvarez has since obtained his own promotional license, the sport’s top pound-for-pound pugilist is open to the idea of forming a power pairing and moving forward
Posted on 03/15/2021 By: Hans Themistode Roman Gonzalez didn’t want to sound like a sore loser immediately after. The future Hall of Famer respects the judge’s decision to hand the victory to Juan Francisco Estrada this past weekend but he vehemently disagrees with the result. Both Estrada and Gonzalez battled it out at the American
11:05 AM ET The long-rumored, long-discussed clash of British heavyweights is finally signed, with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua set to clash for all four world titles and the crown of undisputed champion. It’s never happened in the four-belt era, and the last person to be called the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was
Top Rank is officially set to hit Kissimmee, Florida on April 24th with Emanuel Navarrete’s first featherweight title defense and more than half a dozen promising Puerto Ricans in tow, JUST ANNOUNCED – A vs. Featherweight title clash – A rising Super Middleweight monster with a historic KO1 streak on the line – 6 rising
Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and all of their representatives have finally signed off on a two-fight deal. ESPN’s Mark Kriegel reported Monday morning that all parties have signed a provision of services agreement for their two heavyweight title unification fights. Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, and Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, have repeatedly told BoxingScene.com and other
Posted on 03/14/2021 Shannon Courtenay will face Ebanie Bridges for the vacant WBA Bantamweight World Title at a venue to be confirmed on Saturday April 10, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories. Courtenay (6-1, 3 KOs), who stopped Dorota Norek in seven rounds on the Saunders vs. Murray undercard
10:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has been finally signed. “We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,” said Eddie Hearn, managing director of
WBA, WBC and IBF Unified World Super Welterweight Champion Jermell “Iron Man” Charlo joins The PBC Podcast this week to discuss his goals for 2021 and beyond. Plus, we look ahead to Saturday night’s PBC on SHOWTIME triple-header, examine five historic fights with a twist and more! For show notes and more info, click here:
Dominic Ingle and Liam Williams allowed BT Sport to see how ‘The Machine’ is preparing for his world title bout with Demetrius Andrade, as we got a brief glimpse of his sparring in Sheffield. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport
Claressa Shields says she’d be willing to go down in weight one more time in order to face undisputed welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill, opening up the another possibility for Shields’ boxing career. Shields (11-0, 2 KO) is currently undisputed champion at junior middleweight, having already won world titles at super middleweight, then moving down to
Promoter Frank Warren believes WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders is more than capable of shocking Canelo Alvarez, who holds the WBC, WBA world titles. The two champions will collide on May 8th in a three belt unification. Canelo is a tremendous favorite to win the fight – with only three outings at the
Posted on 03/14/2021 By: Hans Themistode Danny Garcia is still licking his wounds courtesy of Errol Spence Jr. The two faced off on a FOX Pay-Per-View event in early December of 2020. On the night, Garcia was thoroughly outboxed and outgunned as the Dallas native proved to be far too much. For Garcia, the loss
7:53 PM ET “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler died at the age of 66 on Saturday. The Boxing Hall of Famer and sports icon was known as one of the best middleweight fighters in the sport’s history. Hagler became the undisputed middleweight champion in 1980 and defended the crown 12 times, until his defeat against “Sugar” Ray
Shannon Courtenay still has her vacant WBA bantamweight title fight on April 10 on Matchroom’s Benn-Vargas card, which will stream live on DAZN, but there’s been a change of opponent. Rachel Ball, who beat Courtenay last summer, was set for a rematch, but the 30-year-old Ball (7-1, 0 KO) is still battling effects from COVID-19,
Austrian middleweight Marcos Nader (22-1-1) is now ready for another attempt to reach the top in professional boxing and faces German Alexander Pavlov (11-1) a defense of the IBF International title. Nader was a young prospect with Team Sauerland when he turned pro in 2009. However, while promising he couldn’t quite make it and after
Posted on 03/14/2021 By: Hans Themistode David Benavidez hadn’t even wiped the blood away from his gloves before turning to the camera and calling out his next opponent. “I wanna fight Charlo,” said Benavidez during a virtual press conference. “I think that would be a great fight. He was saying all this stuff that he
12:01 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The great fighter retires with his fortune and his faculties intact. Then he stays retired — resisting the urgings of the promoters, the public and the ferocious power of his own ego that which made him great in the first place. It’s boxing’s most unlikely story. And its happiest. And