Karim Guerfi defends his European bantamweight title against top prospect Lee McGregor in today’s MTK Global main event, with the show streaming live at 3 pm ET on ESPN+. Guerfi should be able to tell us more about how good McGregor is, as he’s a very solid European-level fighter, not a world contender really, but
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Ring City USA is back tonight from Salinas, Puerto Rico, featuring a renewal of the Mexico vs Puerto Rico rivalry in the 10-round lightweight main event, as Alberto Machado faces Angel Fierro. Fights start at 6:30 pm ET streaming for free on Twitch (which is also how international viewers can watch the full card), and
Deontay Wilder hasn’t fought since his Feb. 2020 loss to Tyson Fury and doesn’t seem to have any plans to, at least not that anyone knows publicly. One idea would be for ex-WBC titlist Wilder to fight someone in an official eliminator for that sanctioning body, and Dillian Whyte certainly could be a name in
Fresh off her latest win over former unified women’s champion Cecilia Braekhus, Jessica McCaskill talks a bit about what she thought of her performance to retain her belts and what could potentially be next now that there’s no question she’s right up there with her other top female contemporaries. McCaskill on her beating Braekhus convincingly
Two of Britain’s top young middleweights will collide when British champion Denzel Bentley meets Commonwealth champion Felix Cash on April 24th. Frank Warren, who promotes Bentley (14-0-1, 12 KO), won a February purse bid to stage the BBBofC-mandated bout. After previously feasting on limited opposition, Bentley battled Mark Heffron to a unanimous draw last September
Jake Paul’s fight with Ben Askren is fast approaching, coming in just a month from today on Saturday, April 17, a main event for a Triller Fight Club pay-per-view. There’s been lots of jabber, with Dana White willing to bet $1 million that Askren will win, Snoop Dogg apparently offering to make it $2 million
With Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez all fighting over the past weekend, the conversation can naturally turn to what awaits each man. I’ve made no secret of my love for this division – in particular the rivalry between the new ‘Four Kings’ of the sport – and the future looks
Last week’s Big Question was on the Estrada-Chocolatito 2 fight, just a simple “who wins?” thrown out for everyone. Percentage wise, it was basically dead even. Estrada won the poll by a total of four votes. He did win the fight (full highlights), but personally, I think myself, every other Chocolatito voter, and my staff
Marvin Hagler was a true fighting man. Marvelous Marvin defined toughness, incited violence and encouraged war inside the ring, so much so that the former middleweight giant would have looked down at the American Airlines Center this weekend with a mischievous snarl across his face. Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez delivered what was expected.
Top Rank is officially set to hit Kissimmee, Florida on April 24th with Emanuel Navarrete’s first featherweight title defense and more than half a dozen promising Puerto Ricans in tow, JUST ANNOUNCED – A vs. Featherweight title clash – A rising Super Middleweight monster with a historic KO1 streak on the line – 6 rising
Claressa Shields says she’d be willing to go down in weight one more time in order to face undisputed welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill, opening up the another possibility for Shields’ boxing career. Shields (11-0, 2 KO) is currently undisputed champion at junior middleweight, having already won world titles at super middleweight, then moving down to
Shannon Courtenay still has her vacant WBA bantamweight title fight on April 10 on Matchroom’s Benn-Vargas card, which will stream live on DAZN, but there’s been a change of opponent. Rachel Ball, who beat Courtenay last summer, was set for a rematch, but the 30-year-old Ball (7-1, 0 KO) is still battling effects from COVID-19,
It’s now official that Demetrius Andrade will defend the WBO middleweight title against Liam Williams on Saturday, April 17 on DAZN, and after a good while hearing Williams call him out, Andrade is ready to go. “Liam Williams, you got what you wanted,” said Andrade. “You ran your mouth, got your rating up and here
It’s Sunday morning, we had fights on the weekend, so you know what that means: Mandatory wild speculation! OK, a lot of it isn’t wild speculation, but some of it is! What’s next for some of the weekend’s biggest names we saw in action? Let’s rap about it. You and me. Let’s both turn our
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the great fighters in the history of boxing, has died at age 66. His wife Kay shared the news on Facebook. Hagler fought as a pro from 1973-87, and reigned as middleweight champion of the world from 1980-87. He is remembered as one of the “Four Kings” of the 1980s
IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant is sitting in an ideal spot right now, more or less, as he awaits a possible autumn fight with Canelo Alvarez, which could crown the first-ever undisputed champion in the 168-pound division. Canelo (55-1-2, 37 KO) will first look to unify his WBC and WBA titles with the WBO
Teofimo Lopez spoke with Ak & Barak about his upcoming fight with George Kambosos Jr — which he says is happening on May 29, likely in Miami — as well as possible future fights with Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Devin Haney. For the Triller PPV event in May, Lopez said he has two slots for
None of today’s myriad weigh-ins offered more intrigue than that of David Benavidez, but “El Bandera Roja” came through drama-free, hitting the scale nearly a pound under the super middleweight limit at 167.2 pounds. Opponent Ronald Ellis, who had some scale issues of his own last year when he attempted to move to middleweight, came