Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode No one believed more than Stan Hoffman. Not even the boxers themselves. Hasim Rahman (left) walks away after knocking down Lennox Lewis in the fifth Round, while referee Daniel Van De Wiele counts Lewis out during the World Heavyweight Title fight at Carnival City, Johannesburg. * American Hasim Rahman
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8:10 AM ET A new main event was set late on Thursday as the light heavyweight title fight between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov was canceled due to COVID-19. There won’t be a title on the line, but heavy punchers will seize the main event spotlight as Richard Commey and Jackson Marinez (ESPN+, Sat.,
#BronerSantiago Fight Night Details: http://pbcham.ps/FightNight-022021 Former four-division world champion and must-see attraction Adrien “The Problem” Broner will end his two-year hiatus from boxing when he faces Jovanie Santiago in a 12-round super lightweight bout Saturday, February 20 live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. in a
Larry Merchant — the wordsmith who started out as a newspaperman and graced HBO airwaves with his often poetic and trenchant analysis for 35 years — sounded upbeat and ready to party when congratulated on making it to the 90-year mark. “It’s been a good day,” Merchant told me, after I sang him a few
Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, views the unification with Anthony Joshua as the biggest heavyweight fight since Muhammad Ali collided with Joe Frazier for the first time in March of 1971. Arum is negotiating with Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn, who promotes IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world champion Joshua. The veteran
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode All of the long hours and hard work that Joe Smith Jr. put in is all seemingly for nothing. At least for now. The light heavyweight contender was just recently informed that his upcoming showdown against Maxim Vlasov for the vacant WBO title will no longer take place this
5:05 PM ET The WBO light heavyweight championship fight between Maxim Vlasov and Joe Smith Jr. on Saturday has been postponed after the Russian native tested positive for COVID-19 this week in Las Vegas, it was announced Thursday. Vlasov (45-3, 26 KOs) was scheduled to face Smith (26-3, 21 KOs) for the vacant title in
Matchroom Boxing returns to Barcelona on Friday, March 26th with two European title fights and a couple of Spain’s best fighters in store. The main event sees European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin (37-2, 13 KO) look for his ninth consecutive victory and second successful defense of the title he stopped Andrea Scarpa to claim
LAS VEGAS – Saturday’s Top Rank on ESPN main event between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov — for the vacant WBO light heavyweight world title — has been postponed after Vlasov tested positive for COVID-19. Vlasov said, “I am devastated with the postponement of my world title fight against Joe Smith Jr. I have
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode Following Vasiliy Lomachenko’s surprising loss at the hands of Teofimo Lopez in mid-October last year, promoter Bob Arum did not want to bother him just yet. Lomachenko had always dreamed of becoming an undisputed world champion and needed only one more win to achieve his ultimate goal. Lopez though,
Iran Barkley is indeed in the hospital after testing positive for COVID, but the three-weight champ from the Bronx told BLH that he is feeling decent. Once a fighter, always a fighter. “I’m hanging in, buddy,” Barkley, age 60, told me on Wednesday evening. “I went to the hospital last week, because I started coughing,
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez already has his next two fights scheduled, yet he continues to keep tabs on the rest of the super middleweight division. With that came his team’s undivided attention on another recent divisional title fight, as unbeaten Caleb Plant (21-0, 12KOs) scored a 12-round shutout win over Caleb Plant in a Jan. 30th
Posted on 02/10/2021 By: Hans Themistode The more famous they become, the less they become visible to fans. Unlike his contemporaries who enter the ring sparsely throughout the year, Canelo Alvarez intends on doing things a bit differently. After making the trek to the ring only once during a pandemic stricken 2020, Alvarez says he
7:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Joe Smith. A search on Boxrec.com reveals seven and a half pages — almost 200 professional fighters — who go, or have gone, by “Joe Smith.” The name itself is a generic suggestion: just a guy, an ordinary guy, a regular guy, blue collar, everyman. The Joe Smith in question
Panama’s Jaime Arboleda survived a knockdown to win an excellent action fight by narrow split-decision over Puerto Rico’s Jayson Veléz in a WBA Super Featherweight Title Eliminator. #JaimeArboleda #ArboledaVelez #Boxing Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
Canelo Alvarez plans to make up for lost time – and lost money – in 2021. The Mexican superstar told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday that he would like to fight four times during this calendar year. That would be a highly unusual level of activity for a fighter of Alvarez’s stature, but it would enable the
Posted on 02/10/2021 By: Sean Crose “Eddie,” promoter Eddie Hearn recently quoted promoter Bob Arum as saying, “I think you should stop talking about Fury vs Joshua.” Hearn went on to tell iFL TV that Arum had his reasons for his statement. “You’re talking and then Frank’s gonna wanna talk and I’m gonna wanna say
4:46 PM ET Canelo Alvarez’s top 2021 plan is to do what no other boxer has done in the four-belt era: unify the super middleweight division. Ahead of his Feb. 27 title defense against WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim in Miami, Alvarez told ESPN his plan for the rest of the year is fighting WBO