Juan Macias Montiel realizes he didn’t come close to beating Jermall Charlo last Saturday night. Montiel still feels that he legitimized himself as a middleweight contender by pushing the unbeaten WBC champion at times during their 12-round title fight. Going the distance was a victory of sorts for the determined Mexican underdog, whom Charlo went
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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Punchers are always welcome. Punchers who take a few to get the job done are even more so. 26-year old two-time Jr. lightweight titlist Gervonta Davis (24-0, 23 KO) is both and has emerged as one of the best ticket sellers in the United States. Davis has sold tickets
Undefeated “regular” junior welterweight world champion boxer, Mario “El Azteca” Barrios (26-0, 17 KOs) is only days away from his upcoming fight against four-time world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis. Barrios’ fight with Davis (24-0, 23 KOs) will take place on Saturday night in Atlanta. The bout headlines a Showtime pay-per-view telecast that begins at 9
Naoya Inoue never underestimates any of his opponents, though he admits to finding additional inspiration upon scanning the crowd ahead of his most recent performance. All of the claimants to the major bantamweight titles were in the house this past Saturday at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, where Japan’s Inoue (21-0, 18KOs) defended his WBA/IBF belts
Vasiliy Lomachenko is ready to embark on the road to reclaim his status as among the sport’s very best fighters. The former three-division titlist returns to the ring this Saturday in an intriguing showdown versus perennial Top ten lightweight contender Masayoshi Nakatani. Their scheduled twelve-round lightweight bout—which airs live on ESPN+ from The Theater at
Undefeated Interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Chris “Primetime” Colbert will face hard-hitting contender Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar on Saturday, July 3, headlining the live Showtime telecast at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Nyambayar replaces Yuriorkis Gamboa, who was originally scheduled to face Colbert before suffering an injury
Mario Barrios didn’t know what to expect beyond fight night when sharing a card with Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis last Halloween. Even in the months that passed, the thought of facing the fast-rising star never really crossed his mind until he got the phone call from his team. “I was pretty surprised to hear his name
Four weeks out from a big fight, some folks out there are surely thinking it. But we’ll go ahead and say it. Tyson Fury is the most physically daunting heavyweight champion who’s ever lived. And when you blend athletic ability with a gargantuan 81-inch, 273-pound frame, it’s hard to imagine anyone who’s ever appeared in
Unbeaten super welterweight prospect Leon Lawson will battle hard-hitting Nathaniel Gallimore in a 10-round showdown that headlines FS1 PBC Fight Night and on FOX Deportes Sunday, June 27 from The Armory in Minneapolis. FS1 PBC Fight Night begins at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT and will feature unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Atif Oberlton taking on
Jermall Charlo imitated Canelo Alvarez when the topic of meeting Demetrius Andrade in a title unification fight came up at his post-fight press conference early Sunday morning. The unbeaten WBC champion jokingly referred to Andrade as a “horrible fighter,” the same criticism Alvarez offered when he got into a shouting match with Andrade after Alvarez’s
Former two division champion Danny Garcia is not expecting the upcoming clash between Errol Spence and Pacquiao to go the full distance. Pacquiao, 42-years-old, has been out of the ring since July of 2019 – when he won a twelve round split decision over unbeaten Keith Thurman to capture the WBA welterweight crown. On August
Julian Williams will have to wait yet a little longer for his comeback bout. BoxingScene.com has learned that Williams has suffered an unspecified injury while training that has forced him to withdraw from his upcoming fight against Brian Mendoza. Philadelphia’s Williams (27-2-1, 16 KOs, 1 NC) and Albuquerque’s Mendoza (19-1, 13 KOs) were supposed to
The scores were 118-109, 119-109 and 120-108. Montiel was coming off a first round destruction of veteran James Kirkland. Charlo was in action back in September, when he turned back Sergiy Derevyanchenko. Charlo came forward at the start of the first and was taking the fight to Montiel. Charlo was shooting a stiff jab and
Anderson Silva looked far more like a world-class boxer than his ex-middleweight champion opponent, carrying his skills over from the UFC cage to win a split decision over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in their sanctioned eight-round bout on the Tribute to the Kings at Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico. All three judges saw it 77-75
Don Haskins Center, El Paso – For the WBC flyweight world title, Marlen Esparza (10-1, 1 KO) came off the floor to become a world champion with a ten round unanimous decision over Ibeth Zamora (32-7, 12 KOs). The scores were 97-92, 95-94 and 96-94 for Esparza. There were many observers who felt the contest
Jermall Charlo acknowledged Thursday that Juan Macias Montiel has a lot of power. The unbeaten WBC middleweight champion clarified, though, that Montiel will encounter an opponent unlike anyone he has previously fought when they square off Saturday night in Houston, Charlo’s hometown. Each of Montiel’s 22 professional wins have come by knockout, including a first-round
It takes a lot for the humble yet confident Naoya Inoue to break character. The level of trash talk that has come from fellow three-division and reigning bantamweight titlist John Riel Casimero has yet to do the trick. Instead, Inoue focuses on the stuff that matters which for this week means the next defense of
Unbeaten WBC Middleweight World Champion Jermall Charlo went face-to-face with the hard-hitting Juan Macias Montiel Friday during the official weigh-in before they meet live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, June 19 from Toyota Center in Houston headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Esther Lin) Friday’s weigh-in also featured rising lightweight contender Isaac Cruz and