Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum expects WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to delay a final decision on his boxing future until the outcome of the upcoming rematch between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk. Back in April, Fury knocked out mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte before a crowd of 94,000 at Wembley Stadium in London. After the fight,
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WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has criticized the WBA for attempting to force unified super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor into a mandatory bout with Alberto Puello. Subsequently, Taylor handed back the WBA title but will now face WBC mandatory challenger Jose Zepeda next. Sulaiman said a meeting between four sanctioning bodies – WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO
Jamaine Ortiz earned his biggest win to date Saturday night on ESPN, out-working ex-Olympian and former world champion Jamel Herring via unanimous decision, 96-64 (judge Chris Migliore), and 97-93 twice (Max DeLuca and David Sutherland), at Resorts World Event Center to defend his NABF lightweight title and add the USBA crown to his résumé. Ranked
Connor “The Kid” Coyle (16-0, 7 KO’s) captured the NABA middleweight title after winning a spirited split decision against Atlanta, GA’s Antonio Todd (13-6, 7 KO’s) Saturday evening at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, FL. Broadcast live on the Bally Sports Network, Coyle controlled the early rounds by outworking Todd. Coyle found a home for
O2 Arena, London – In a high stakes light heavyweight clash, Joshua Buatsi (16-0, 13 KOs) fought his way to a twelve round unanimous decision over Craig Richards (17-3-1, 10 KOs). (photos by Mark Robinson_ The scores were 116-112, 115-113 and 115-113. Buatsi came out very fast in the first, pressing the action and looking
GLENDALE, Arizona – Luis ‘The Twist’ Nunez backed up his promise to disprove Jonathan Fierro’s claim that the Dominican Republic is only known for churning out top baseball talent. The 22-year old Nunez outboxed and outslugged Fierro en route to a ten-round, unanimous decision victory. Judges Chris Flores (96-94), Dennis O’Connell (96-94) and Gonzalo
Jorge Cota is prepared to advance from trialhorse to thoroughbred. The hard-nosed junior middleweight from Los Mochis, Mexico has seen his number called many times, most often as a durable opponent for the division’s top tier talent. On paper, it appears to be the case this weekend, as the 34-year-old slugger is set to face
Nestled beside the train tracks near Selhurst station in South London, about 500 yards from the home of Crystal Palace Football Club is the South Norwood and Victory Amateur Boxing Club. This one small gym was the starting point for two of Britain’s best light-heavyweights. They clash on Saturday night at the O2 Arena in
Joseph Fernandez demonstrated remarkable resilience and recorded a career-changing win Friday night. Three months after suffering a first-round, technical-knockout defeat, Fernandez withstood a slow start against Zhiming Wang and won an eight-round unanimous decision in ProBox TV’s “Last Chance Tournament” in the 140-pound division. Fernandez took a lot of power punches in the first two
Former (?) WBA secondary heavyweight champion of the world, Mahmood “Manuel” Charr (32-4) continues his comeback with a showdown against Michael Wallisch (22-5) on May 28 at “Die Bucht” in Hamburg, Germany. Charr fought a little over a year against puncher Christopher Lovejoy and easily stopped him in the second. That was his first fight
Eddie Hearn is clearly no fan of his former, disgraced heavyweight client Jarrell Miller. The Matchroom head used to promote Jarrell Miller, the brash heavyweight contender from Brooklyn whose career was derailed by a flurry of failed drug tests. But Hearn cut ties with him after Miller tested positive in three separate drug samples ahead
Junior welterweight Michael Dutchover (15-2, 10 KOs) will take part in The Last Chance Tournament when he battles veteran Clarence Booth (21-4, 13 KOs) in a scheduled 8-round bout on Friday night in Plant City, Florida. Dutchover of Midland, Texas is promoted by Banner Promotions and Thompson Boxing. The fight will be streamed on the
Promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom has revealed that he’s been in discussions with the management of former two division world champion Billy Joe Saunders with respect to a comeback. Saunders was last seen in action back in May of 2021, when he suffered the first loss of his career – a stoppage at the hands
Boxing can take a combatant to the highest of peaks and then almost simultaneously dump them to the lowest of lows. The sport is littered with many such casualties and cautionary stories of stars that rose too fast only to crash and burn. It’s almost a cliché in the sport, the promising career of the
Unbeaten two-time world champion David “El Bandera Roja” Benavídez and former world champion David Lemieux officially kicked off fight week events with a media workout on Wednesday ahead of their 12-round showdown for the vacant Interim WBC Super Middleweight Title which headlines live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, May 21 from Gila River Arena in Glendale,
Joshua Buatsi will face former World Title challenger Craig Richards in a huge all London Light-Heavyweight clash on Saturday May 21, live worldwide on DAZN (excluding New Zealand and Australia). (photos by Mark Robinson) Croydon’s Buatsi (15-0, 13 KOs) scored his tenth knockout in a row when he stopped Latvia’s Ricards Bolotniks in the eleventh
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz In the end, Oleksandr Uysk decided he could do more for his country in the ring than hunkered down in a basement. The WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight champion made headlines last month when he announced he would temporarily forgo his rematch with Anthony Joshua in order to assist
Unbeaten No.1 ranked contender Rolando Romero headlined a media workout in Las Vegas Tuesday and promised a first-round knockout victory in his showdown against WBA Lightweight Champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis, boxing’s hottest young attraction, taking place Saturday, May 28 live on SHOWTIME PPV from Barclays Center in Brooklyn in an event presented by Premier Boxing
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