Remember how PBC waited to announce their December 16th Eimantas Stanionis-Janer Gonzalez card until two days before fight night? Seems like they’re at it again. Dan Rafael reports that the promotion will stage an FS1 card headlined by Frank Martin vs. Jerry Perez on April 20th. Martin (12-0, 9 KO) vs. Perez (13-0, 10 KO)
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With Antonio Tarver out of this weekend’s planned fight against Frank Mir, scheduled to take place on Triller’s Jake Paul vs Ben Askren undercard, Steve Cunningham has officially stepped in to take Tarver’s place against Mir. RingTV reports Cunningham and the former UFC fighter will go toe-to-toe in eight rounds of action where Mir will
Joe Smith Jr MD-12 Maxim Vlasov Joe Smith Jr. (27-3, 21 KOs) became the new WBO light heavyweight champion tonight, in what appeared to be a controversial majority decision over Maxim Vlasov (45-4, 26 KOs) over 12 rounds of action. Official judges turned in scores of 114-114, 115-112, and 115-112 in favor of Smith. I
DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Andrade vs Williams press conference. DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Andrade vs Williams weigh-in. DAZN, 1:30 pm ET, Fabio Turchi vs Dylan Bregeon. Matchroom Italy are BACK! Turchi-Bregeon is for a secondary regional cruiserweight title. Francesco Patera is also in action. It’s a pretty typical Italy show. ESPN+, 2:00 pm ET, Danny
Jaron Ennis passed another test tonight in a Showtime main event, knocking out Sergey Lipinets in the sixth round to take another step toward a possible welterweight title fight. Ennis (27-0, 25 KO) didn’t really have much more trouble with Lipinets (16-2-1, 12 KO) than he’s had with anyone else, though he did get hit
Sonny Conto KO-1 Waldo Cortes (1:41) Tonight on ESPN+ and ESPN — as well as BoxNation in the UK — Joe Smith Jr and Maxim Vlasov headline Top Rank’s first non-bubble card in over a year, fighting for the vacant WBO light heavyweight title in Tulsa. Wil Esco will be on the round-by-round call at
With the likes of Mike Tyson and Oscar De La Hoya starting to cash nice checks by exploiting the nostalgia of aging fans yearning for their youth, it’s pretty much inevitable that 44-year-old Floyd Mayweather will be coming up with something to do. Mayweather, who hasn’t had a real fight since 2017’s win over Conor
Today at 2 pm ET streaming live on DAZN and airing on Sky Sports in the UK, Conor Benn returns in a main event against Samuel Vargas, plus we’ll see world title fights between bantamweights Shannon Courtenay and Ebanie Bridges, and middleweights Savannah Marshall and Maria Lindberg. We’ll have live updates, results, and highlights for
Before Tony Harrison takes on Bryant Perrella atop an April 17th PBC on FOX show, unbeaten cruiserweights Efetobor Apochi and Deon Nicholson will duke it out on the FS1 prelims in a WBA eliminator. The pair sit at #6 and #5, respectively, in the rankings. The Barrientes brothers, Angel and Chavez, will also be in
Showtime’s back on Saturday night with a tripleheader from Connecticut, which may wind up being their last show in the Mohegan bubble. In the main event, Jaron “Boots” Ennis (26-0, 24 KO) takes on Sergey Lipinets (16-1-1, 12 KO), and the welterweight co-feature sees Eimantas Stanionis (12-0, 9 KO) face Thomas Dulorme (25-4-1, 16 KO).
During today’s final press conference for Saturday’s Showtime main event between Jaron Ennis and Sergey Lipinets, Ennis appeared to answer media questions leading into the bout. You can catch the card’s full press conference above thanks to Fight Hub TV, with some quotes from Ennis below. Jaron Ennis on what a win over Sergey Lipinets
No matter who emerges victorious in Moruti Mthalane’s April 30th IBF flyweight title defense against Sunny Edwards, his next mandatory will be decided when former title challenger Jay Harris meets 22-year-old Ricardo Sandoval atop a May 14th MTK Fight Night in Bolton. Harris (18-1, 9 KO) demolished Paddy Barnes to set up a February 2020
Though the deal is reportedly in place for two fights between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, don’t count your chickens just yet. Fury, the WBC titleholder and considered universally No. 1 man at heavyweight (unless you’re the WBA, IBF, or WBO, but who cares?), Tweeted out this notice on Wednesday: That’s pretty clear without actually
Well, folks, it’s official: Mike Tyson is BACK!!!! …in All Elite Wrestling (AEW). You may recall that Tyson, who has some past history in pro wrestling as an attraction, particularly for WWF WrestleMania XIV in 1998, appeared for AEW in May 2020 with the idea that he’d be hanging around to do some stuff there.
Joe Smith Jr has had some big highlight nights over the years, but has never won a world title. The light heavyweight “Common Man” will look to change that on Saturday, when Smith (26-3, 21 KO) takes on Maxim Vlasov (45-3, 26 KO) for the vacant WBO light heavyweight title in Tulsa, live on ESPN+
Heavyweight Michael Hunter just shared some of his thoughts with Sky Sports on Oleksandr Usyk’s fairly recent move to campaign in the division, and makes it clear that he belives Usyk isn’t going to have an easy time landing big fights. In fact, Hunter says he thinks other heavyweights don’t really regard Usyk as one
After joining forces with Frank Warren earlier this year, former light heavyweight title challenger Callum Johnson is officially set to end a two-year layoff against Bosnia’s Emil Markic on Queensberry’s April 24th Denzel Bentley-Felix Cash card. Johnson (18-1, 13 KO) has struggled badly with inactivity this last half-decade, managing just three fights since 2016. In
Former junior middleweight titleholder Tony Harrison is the latest to join Brian Custer’s Last Stand Podcast, and during the interview he talks about a number of topics ranging from losing his father/trainer to COVID, his return to the ring, and his plans to target some big fights in the division. Check out some excerpts from