SAN ANTONIO – Eddie Hearn hopes Luke Campbell pulls off what would be considered a mild upset Saturday night. Campbell’s promoter is well aware, of course, that his partners at DAZN want Ryan Garcia to conquer Campbell. A Garcia win would set up an appealing showdown with Devin Haney, who also is promoted by Hearn’s
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Covid-19 dropped boxing to its knees with a sucker punch in 2020 forcing the sport to take a prolonged respite in a neutral corner for much of the year. Down but not out, the sweet science came storming with a vengeance by mid-year. What the pandemic depleted in quantity of bouts was adequately compensated for
Ryan Garcia (20-0, 17 KOs) and Luke Campbell (20-3, 16 KOs) hosted their final press conference today in Dallas, Texas ahead of their 12-round showdown for the interim WBC Lightweight Championship. They were joined by undercard fighters from the event including world champions Rene Alvarado (32-8, 21 KOs) and Felix Alvarado (35-2, 30 KOs) and
When Ryan Garcia and Luke Campbell square off for the vacant interim WBC lightweight world title in the main event of a Golden Boy Promotions card on Saturday (DAZN, 3 p.m. ET preliminary bouts, 6 p.m. ET main card) at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, there will be a very interested spectator paying close
New Year’s Eve has loomed large in the careers of both Kazuto Ioka and Kosei Tanaka. Ioka is making his ninth start on the date, posting a mark of 7-1 so far. Tanaka is making his fourth start on what has become arguably the biggest day on the Japanese boxing calendar, returning to the ring
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is gaining confidence that a deal will be finalized for a full division unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury. Hearn is currently in serious discussions with Fury’s co-promoters, Bob Arum of Top Rank and Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions. The two sides are
Lightweight titlist Devin Haney is outlining his holiday wishlist, and it’s headlined by a pair of potential mouthwatering fights for 2021. “My next [fight] will be Teofimo Lopez because that would be for all the belts of course and I would want to be undisputed champion of the lightweight division, and then I would say
Fight week. Two words WBC / WBO super middleweight champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn didn’t know if she would be hearing anytime soon, but here she is, a few days away from a non-title bout against Ashleigh Curry on Saturday that puts her back in the ring for the first time in nearly a year. “I don’t
When most of the people in the world were gathering for dinner on Christmas Eve on December 24, middleweight contender Juan Macias Montiel of Sinaloa was with his uncles Pedro and Eduardo from the Kochul Gym team in California, avoiding food and liquids in order to make weight for his upcoming fight. On Saturday night
Oscar De La Hoya envisions Ryan Garcia handling Luke Campbell like none of the British southpaw’s previous opponents. Garcia’s promoter predicted during a virtual press conference recently that Garcia’s uncommon combination of speed and power will be too much for the 2012 Olympic gold medalist January 2. Campbell battled Vasiliy Lomachenko in his last bout,
Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell is not concerned for a moment with the popular training video clips that are being posted by his upcoming opponent, Ryan Garcia, who has a huge following on social media. Campbell (20-3, 16 KOs), 33-years-old, has dropped competitive decisions in his two most high profile fights – world title challenges
Former two division world champion Sergio Martinez made good on his promise to return to the sport in 2020. Martinez had retired back in 2014, after suffering a knockout loss at the hands of Miguel Cotto. It took several years for Martinez to recover from lingering knee injuries. At 45-years-old, Martinez wants to continue marching
SAN ANTONIO – Canelo Alvarez realizes there are some boxing observers who will never recognize him as the number one fighter, pound-for-pound, in the sport. The 30-year-old Alvarez legitimized himself as a four-weight world champion last Saturday night, when he dominated England’s Callum Smith in their 12-round, 168-pound championship match at Alamodome. That thorough victory
As the year comes to a close, the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is looking forward to a potential full division unification with WBC champion Tyson Fury in 2021. Joshua was in action earlier this month, when he knocked out mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev. Now his sights are set on finalizing a
Mexican puncher Miguel Berchelt, who holds the super featherweight championship of the World Boxing Council, made it clear that he fully intends to chin-check his compatriot Oscar Valdez, when they collide in the ring on the working date of February 20. “I have the advantage that I am at my natural weight, he is coming up and his
Canelo Alvarez is warming up to the thought of a potential third bout with Gennadiy Golovkin. Alvarez’s trainer, manager and lifelong friend Eddy Reynoso told BoxingScene.com in an interview that a trilogy between the archrivals will have to come under the terms of boxing’s biggest star. “Saul Alvarez is going to fight at 168 pounds
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, 33-years-old, is hoping to fight the best boxers in the weight class – and one of them is former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. “There are a lot of guys who I would like to fight and would be happy to fight, like Deontay Wilder,” Usyk told The Sun. Wilder has
Former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has no problem with Floyd Mayweather’s decision to face Youtube star Logan Paul in an exhibition fight. Mayweather, a five division world champion, retired with a perfect 50-0 record in August of 2017, when he stopped UFC superstar Conor McGregor in ten rounds. He returned in December 2018, in