Amanda Serrano kept the WBC and WBO featherweight titles tonight in San Juan, Puerto Rico, knocking out Daniela Bermudez on a ninth round body shot to secure her 40th career victory. Serrano (40-1-1, 30 KO) more or less lived up to her reputation as probably the best puncher on the women’s side of the sport,
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Ryan Garcia may not be fighting Manny Pacquiao next, but it looks like it’ll still be an ultra-athletic southpaw. While Devin Haney deals with Jorge Linares, the WBC has ordered “Kingry” to defend his interim lightweight title against longtime mandatory challenger Javier Fortuna, giving the pair until April 16th to hammer things out before a
Tonight on NBCSN, Ring City USA returns with a world title fight in the main event, as top women’s pound-for-pound boxers Amanda Serrano and Daniela Bermudez battle for a pair of featherweight belts. The 32-year-old Serrano has won titles in seven different weight classes and been one of the standouts of women’s boxing for years,
Despite having contractual dibs on the winner of Jamel Herring vs Carl Frampton, ESPN reports that WBO mandatory super featherweight challenger Shakur Stevenson is set to headline a June 12th ESPN card in New York City, “most likely” against #2 contender Jeremiah Nakathila. Said card, which would come on Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend, will
While not exactly the fight most fans have been hoping for, a source close to ESPN reports that former unified lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KOs) is currently being lined up to make his ring return this summer against Masayoshi Nakatani (19-1, 13 KOs). A date hasn’t been set for the fight but it’s
Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver will not, in fact, face former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir on Triller’s April 17th Jake Paul-Ben Askren card. ESPN reports that the “Magic Man” is ineligible to compete under Georgia’s laws, which mandate that “anyone 50 years or older must have participated in at least 10 pro fights
After a lot of will-they/won’t-they, it appears that there will be some sort of encounter between Mike Tyson and Evander Hoylfield coming on May 29. “There’s a small, fundamental difference to get some paperwork done, and then it’s on to the races with me and Evander,” Tyson said. “The fight is on with me and
“Lewis! Lewis! Lewissssss!” screams Adonis Stevenson down the phone. It’s quite the introduction. I’d been messaging with the former 175-pound king for a week or so, and finally managed to organize a time slot for us to talk life, boxing and everything in between. I warmed to the Haitian-Canadian immediately as he talked me through
More bad news outside of the ring for lightweight Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, who has just been indicted by a grand jury on 14 different counts of traffic violations, all stemming from a November 5th accident where Davis was accused of a hit-and-run. Among other charges, which can all be read here by WMAR Baltimore, Davis
Fresh off Lawrence Okolie’s stoppage win over Krzysztof Glowacki this past weekend his Matchroom promoter, Eddie Hearn, tells Sky Sports how impressed he was with Okolie’s performance while referencing his jab, footwork, and power shots. “That was a good enough performance to beat any cruiserweight in the division, and that’s what we want to do
In the immediate aftermath of Vergil Ortiz Jr’s stoppage win over Maurice Hooker, our friends at Fight Hub TV caught up with Terence Crawford to get his impressions of the fight, Ortiz saying he wants to fight him next, and when we might ever see him in the ring against Errol Spence. Crawford on his
In the immediate aftermath of Vergil Ortiz’s stoppage win over Maurice Hooker, our friends at Fight Hub TV caught up with Terence Crawford to get his impressions of the fight, Ortiz saying he wants to fight him next, and when we might ever see him in the ring against Errol Spence. Check out what Crawford
Twitch, 6:30 pm ET, Ring City USA prelims. Prelims for the Serrano-Bermudez card. BLH will have live coverage. NBCSN and Twitch, 9:00 pm ET, Amanda Serrano vs Daniela Bermudez. If nothing happens to this main event, it’s a really good one. Serrano and Bermudez are both top 10 fighters pound-for-pound, fighting for a pair of
Vergil Ortiz Jr kept his undefeated record by stopping Maurice Hooker in the seventh round of a terrific action fight tonight, but the bigger story coming out of it might be what could happen next, and whether or not it should. Hooker is a training stablemate of WBO welterweight titleholder Terence “Bud” Crawford, who was
Today at 3 pm ET streaming live on DAZN internationally and also airing on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, Lawrence Okolie faces Krzysztof Glowacki for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title, with Okolie trying to win his first world title and Glowacki trying to become a two-time champ. We’ll have fight-by-fight results as they come
Tonight at 9 pm ET streaming live on DAZN, top rising welterweight Vergil Ortiz Jr looks to keep his hype train rolling when he faces former junior welterweight titlist Maurice Hooker in the 12-round main event from Fort Worth, Texas. Wil Esco will be on the round-by-round call for Ortiz-Hooker, as well as the co-feature
Scott O’Shaughnessy TKO-1 Melvin Guillard (0:46) Jason Fish TKO-3 Adrian Miles (1:20) David Diaz MD-5 Spencer Ruggeri (47-47, 48-45, 48-45) Elvin Brito UD-5 Brad Kelly (48-47, 49-47, 50-45) Zion Tomlinson TKO-1 Tyler Hill (1:40) Ryan Jones RTD-2 Eric Thompson (3:00) Tonight at 8 pm ET, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship returns with BKFC, featuring a 165-pound
During this conversation with Fight Hub, former junior welterweight titleholder Maurice Hooker discusses tomorrow’s fight against Vergil Ortiz and why he believes in his chances despite most favoring Ortiz to win. Hooker on how anxious he is to get in the ring with Ortiz “I real anxious, man. I’m ready to get in there and