LAS VEGAS – Jorge Linares made the lightweight limit so comfortably for his fight against Devin Haney that the former champion is confident he could get down to the junior lightweight maximum of 130 pounds if necessary. The Venezuelan veteran officially weighed 134 pounds Friday for their 12-round, 135-pound championship match Saturday night. Haney stepped
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Jorge Linares is a betting underdog in his title bid versus Devin Haney this weekend, though he likes his odds given the history with his opponent’s promoter. This weekend’s WBC lightweight title fight marks the fifth time in his career where Linares faces a fighter promoted by Eddie Hearn. The former three-division titlist, now 35,
LAS VEGAS – Devin Haney detects a false sense of confidence from Jorge Linares. The unbeaten WBC world lightweight champion feels Linares is anticipating a similar version of the 17-year-old Haney that Linares sparred against a few years ago when they fight Saturday night. Haney can’t wait to demonstrate to his most formidable opponent to
Carlos Canizales is ready to reclaim his place among the best junior flyweights in the world. The unbeaten Venezuelan is set for his ring return following a two-year absence. It comes in the third defense of his WBA junior flyweight title, as Canizales faces Mexico’s Esteban Bermundez (13-3-2, 9KOs). Both boxers made weight for their
Whether Josh Taylor stays at 140 pounds or moves up to 147, Regis Prograis wants his rematch. Prograis applauded Taylor’s performance against Jose Ramirez on Saturday night, but the former WBA super lightweight champion believes they have unfinished business to address. Taylor edged Prograis by majority decision in their 12-round fight for Taylor’s IBF belt
Youtube star Logan Paul is now taunting his upcoming opponent, five division world champion Floyd Mayweather. The 44-year-old Mayweather is going to return to the ring to face Paul in a special exhibition fight on June 6th in Miami, Florida. Showtime Pay-Per-View will carry the event. Mayweather retired from the sport of boxing in 2017,
SHOWTIME has set its announce team for the event headlined by boxing great Floyd Mayweather and social media star Logan Paul with a mix of International Boxing Hall of Fame talent, sportscasting veterans and entertainers. MAYWEATHER vs. PAUL: BRAGGING RIGHTS is being produced and distributed by Showtime PPV and will take place Sunday, June 6,
LAS VEGAS – Teofimo Lopez considers even this aged version of Jorge Linares a legitimate test for Devin Haney. Lopez hopes Haney is prepared to get past the experienced three-division champion primarily because he wants to settle their WBC lightweight title beef next. If Haney handles Linares on Saturday night and Lopez defeats George Kambosos
Former UFC champion Georges St-Pierre has revealed the rules for a proposed boxing match with six division world champion Oscar De La Hoya. The 48-year-old De La Hoya, retired since suffering a stoppage loss at the hands of Manny Pacquiao in 2008, is looking to return to the ring on a date in September. The
Last week, it was announced that Manny Pacquiao (62-7-2) will return to the ring after a 2 year hiatus against WBC and IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence (27-0). The fight will headline a FOX pay-per-view event that will take place at a venue in Las Vegas. Multiple bookmakers in Las Vegas and offshore have set
I appreciate Manny Pacquiao. The things he’s accomplished since reaching the championship level more than two decades ago measure up to anyone over the same time frame, and he’ll be a deserving International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee at the very instant he becomes eligible. But in spite of the hype still resonating from a
Former WBA, IBF cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev is ready to start preparing for his next fight, which is currently being targeted for the summer. “Murat is ready to begin intensive training,” a team spokesman told Igor Lazorin. Gassiev made his heavyweight debut last year, when he knocked out Albanian Nuri Seferi on October 31. The
It was a fight Stephen Fulton hoped would take place nearly two years, though one which has proven to be worth the wait. The unbeaten WBO junior featherweight titlist was among the most interested observers in the room when Brandon Figueroa registered a 7th round knockout of Luis Nery earlier this month at Dignity Health
The business of boxing is convoluted, murky, confusing and sometimes downright unethical. Its chaotic nature means things are never straightforward, when it seems they should be, and the sport’s regularly appearing loopholes frequently cause all kinds of carnage. This week boxing did what boxing does and didn’t only shoot itself in the foot but blew
LAS VEGAS – Josh Taylor is convinced he beat Jose Ramirez much clearer than the scorecards showed Saturday night. All three judges – Tim Cheatham, Dave Moretti and Steve Weisfeld – scored their competitive 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight exactly the same, 114-112 for Taylor. The two knockdowns Taylor produced, one in the sixth round
Birmingham’s Sam Eggington saw off the teak tough Mexican Carlos Molina over twelve hard fought rounds to win the Vacant WBC Silver Middleweight Championship at the Coventry Skydome Arena. Eggington, 27, knew he would be in a battle with Molina, who had never been stopped 50 fights, and had prepared hard at the famous Eastside
LAS VEGAS – The two knockdowns Josh Taylor scored Saturday night enabled him to make history. The two-point advantage Taylor gained by dropping Jose Ramirez once apiece in the sixth and seventh rounds represented the difference on all three scorecards in their 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight inside The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Jose Ramirez should consider himself lucky he’s still officially undefeated. That’s Josh Taylor’s takeaway from Ramirez’s last fight against a southpaw. Taylor thinks Jose Zepeda won eight rounds against Ramirez in a 12-round, 140-pound title fight Ramirez won by majority decision in February 2019. Judges Chris Tellez (116-112) and Glenn Trowbridge (115-113) scored their fight