Boxing Scene

You wouldn’t know it by looking at him (or hearing the familiar ring of his name), but Shane Mosley Jr. – very nearly the spitting image of his Hall of Fame father – came up the hard way in boxing. At Wednesday’s virtual press conference for Mosley’s fight July 6 showdown against former middleweight titleholder
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PHOENIX – Don’t try to lump an entire generation into the same personality type. Yes, some are obsessed with self-promotion, trash talk and outlandish statements. Others – particularly the unbeaten two-division champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez – are content to keep to themselves, to labor in near anonymity before the bright lights of the stage find
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The World Boxing Association Thursday ordered undisputed junior-featherweight champion Naoya Inoue to next meet the sanctioning body’s mandatory challenger, former unified champion Murodjon “M.J.” Akhmadaliev. By virtue of his standing as a four-division and two-time undisputed champion, Japan’s Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs) is squarely in the pound-for-pound No. 1 boxer discussion with unbeaten, two-time undisputed
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Richard Riakporhe has “Deontay Wilder kind of power”, according to Dan Azeez. Riakporhe on Saturday challenges WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park – Azeez fights Croatia’s Hrvoje Sep on the undercard – and does so with a reputation as a fighter whose power will eventually take him to heavyweight. The 34 year
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Chris Billam-Smith is taking the conviction of his victory over Lawrence Okolie into Saturday’s rematch with Richard Riakporhe. The WBO cruiserweight champion makes the second defence of the title he won from Okolie at Crystal Palace’s Selhurst Park, aware that when they fought in 2019, Riakporhe outpointed him to inflict his only defeat. When he
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