WBC interim-lightweight champion Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs), 22-years-old, made a big statement earlier this month – when he got off the floor in the second round to score a seventh round knockout of 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell. According to Garcia, he plans to retire from the sport at the young age
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The Alexander Povetkin vs. Dillian Whyte rematch on March 6, for the interim-WBC heavyweight title, will headline a Sky Box Office show. It will be supported by Ted Cheeseman bidding to regain the British super welterweight title as he faces JJ Metcalf for the vacant belt. Also on the bill, unbeaten heavyweight prospect Fabio Wardley
Takuma Inoue (14-1, 3 KOs) of Japan, the younger brother of WBA, IBF bantamweight champion Naoya ‘The Monster’ Inoue, bounced back from his first career defeat. (photos by Naoki Fukuda) On Thursday, he picked up the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF) bantamweight belt with a nine round technical decision win over his compatriot Keita Kurihara (15-6,
Rances Barthelemy hopes to throw his first shots of 2021 on January 30. This clash would be an intermediate step before fighting for a World Boxing Association belt at 140 pounds against Alberto Puello. The clash with Puello fell out on a couple of occasions, first due to the impact of the coronavirus and then
Lamar Odom has survived tremendous amounts of adversity in his life, and he’s all too familiar with putting up a fight. The former Los Angeles Lakers star and two-time NBA champion will now be bringing that fighting attitude inside a boxing ring. Odom announced that he’s signed a deal with Celebrity Boxing Entertainment and will
Steven Ward is taking inspiration from Rocky Balboa ahead of his exhibition bout with former World’s Strongest Man Hafthor Bjornsson – saying it will be like when Rocky fought Hulk Hogan! Ward faces the man known as ‘The Mountain’ at Conrad Dubai this weekend, with viewers able to watch the fight on Saturday via coresports.world
Josh Warrington’s 2021 campaign will include a showdown with Xu Can, just not in his very next fight. An announcement in the coming days from Matchroom Boxing will include the unbeaten IBF featherweight champ as part of its first quarter schedule, though no longer in a title unification bout, promoter Eddie Hearn informed BoxingScene.com on
Carl Frampton has told Jamel Herring to stop reacting to every incident ahead of their WBO super-featherweight title fight next month. Herring (22-2, 10 KOs) defends his world title against Frampton (28-2, 16 KOs) in London on February 27, live in the UK on BT Sport. Both men have made it clear that they respect
Lausanne, Switzerland – In February 2021, AIBA, with the support of the International Testing Agency (ITA), will launch a large-scale anti-doping educational program in the framework of AIBA’s Continental Forums. On January 11th, AIBA renewed its contract with the ITA for 2021 to ensure a state-of-art anti-doping program for boxing. AIBA President Mr. Umar Kremlev
Nicaraguan star Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez, who holds the WBA’s super flyweight championship, is training diligently for the rematch against WBC super flyweight champion Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada of Mexico. Gonzalez is preparing at the Roger Deshon gym in Managua, Nicaragua. The workouts involve long daily runs and nibbling at a nutritious balanced diet. This long-awaited unifying contest will
CARL FRAMPTON WILL bid to become a three-weight world champion when he takes on the WBO world super featherweight champion Jamel Herring on February 27 in London, live on BT Sport in the UK. The special occasion of ‘The Jackal’ bidding to make boxing history will be Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions’ first show of 2021,
Lausanne, Switzerland – AIBA President Mr. Umar Kremlev signed an agreement with International Testing Agency (ITA), represented by Director General Benjamin Cohen, extending the collaboration between AIBA and ITA for 2021. ‘AIBA is fully committed to clean sports. In boxing, we continue to fight doping at all levels to make sure our sport is completely
Two weeks ago, Ryan Garcia (21-0, 18 KOs) made a big statement when he knocked out 2012 Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell to capture the WBC interim-lightweight championship in Texas. Garcia was decked hard by Campbell in the second round and managed to weather the storm. In the fifth, Garcia had Campbell in serious
Oleksandr Usyk, the mandatory challenger for the WBO championship, is not backing away one inch from his ordered title shot. The current champion, Anthony Joshua, who also holds the WBA, IBO, IBF titles, is more interested in a full division unification with WBC world champion Tyson Fury. But in order for the WBO belt to be
Mike Borao, manager of undefeated Cuban heavyweight contender Frank Sanchez, says his boxer is inching closer and closer to a world title shot. Sanchez was in action last month, as part of the undercard to Canelo Alvarez’s big super middleweight title win over Callum Smith in Texas. In that undercard bout, the 28-year-old blasted Julian Fernandez right out of
Former four-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, 58-years-old, is in ongoing discussions to face career rival Mike Tyson for a third time. The two boxers collided twice in the 90’s. Holyfield, who was a massive underdog at the time, shocked the world when he stopped Tyson in ten rounds in 1996. Their 1997 rematch ended in three rounds, after Tyson
On December 12th, Felix Verdejo (27-2) and Masayoshi Nakatani (18-1) engaged in a fantastic battle inside of the “The Bubble” at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The fight served as the ESPN co-feature underneath the Shakur Stevenson-Toka Khan Clary main event. Verdejo started off strong, dropping Nakatani in the 1st and
IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO, WBA lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez is guaranteeing that a showdown with Devin Haney, who holds the WBC’s full title at 135-pounds, will go down in the near future. There is growing tension between the two boxers, because the World Boxing Council is refusing to end the debate over which of them is