“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
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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
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
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