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Posted on 10/14/2022 By: Sean Crose He made it look easy last time. Those who felt that George Kambosos was going to fluster Devin Haney the way he had flustered Teofimo Lopez were sadly mistaken when the two men met in Kambosos’ native Australia back in June. Whereas Kambosos’ skill set surprised Lopez en route

Posted on 10/14/2022 By: Sean Crose Saturday offers a plethora of notable fights, all at different times, which is welcome relief for fans craving matches of note. One of the most interesting cards of the weekend is the one going down at London’s O2 Arena. For that’s where two of the most significant bouts in

Posted on 10/13/2022 By: Sean Crose After close to a year and a half out of the ring, former WBO world featherweight titlist Heather Hardy, 22-2, returned to action Thursday night when she squared off against the 20-15-3 Calista Silgado. The scheduled 6 round lightweight bout was the main event of Boxing Insider’s “New Beginnings”

Posted on 10/13/2022 Boxing Insider: New Beginnings Details on the competitors in the eight-round junior welterweight bout between Petros Ananyan and Paulo Cesar Galdino, taking place at Sony Hall in New York City on Thursday night. If you can’t be there, check it out on PPV at Bxngtv.com: https://bxngtv.com/newbeginnings101322/ PETROS ANANYAN (16-3-2, 7 KO’s) is

Posted on 10/12/2022 By: Sean Crose Heather “The Heat” Hardy returns to the ring on Thursday night after close to a year and a half out of action. The pandemic and a hand injury prevented the now 40 year old former world featherweight titlist from plying her trade. Now, however, Hardy will be headlining Boxing

Posted on 10/12/2022 New York – Heather “The Heat” Hardy versus Calista Silgado will be the main event of a five-bout card stacked with local boxers on her much anticipated return to the boxing ring on Thursday, October 13.  The card, tabbed “New Beginnings,” will take place at Sony Hall, in the heart of Times Square, mid-town Manhattan, and

Posted on 10/10/2022 By: Sean Crose This Thursday, October, 13th, some of the more notable members of New York’s boxing community will ply their trade smack in the middle of Times Square. “New Beginnings,” a Boxing Insider promoted card, is set to go down at the Sony Theater in Midtown later this week and will

Posted on 10/09/2022 By: Sean Crose WBC interim junior middleweight titlist Sebastian Fundora battled Carlos Ocampo Saturday night in the main event of a Showtime card broadcast live from the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. First however, was a battle for the IBF bantamweight belt between the 14-0 defending titlist Fernando Martinez and

Posted on 10/08/2022 By: Sean Crose By all accounts, Lebanon is an ancient and physically beautiful country. Unfortunately, the nation has also been a land of much hardship. Those who come from troubled lands, however, often have an acute affinity to their communities of origin, for through a sense of unity, one can find strength.

Posted on 10/08/2022 By: Sean Crose New York City has produced it’s share of notable fighters, from Gene Tunney to Jake LaMotta to Mike Tyson to Daniel Jacobs. One of the more recent New York fighters to gain popular attention is Heather Hardy, who will be returning to action this Thursday (October 13th) after close

Posted on 10/07/2022 By: Sean Crose WBC junior middleweight intern titlist Sebastian Fundora will be back in action tomorrow night in Carson, California, when he faces the 34-1 Carlos Ocampo in a scheduled 12 rounder. The 19-0-1 Fundora is known as much for his towering 6’6 height as he is his ring ability. This can,

Posted on 10/06/2022 By: Sean Crose Although there had been talk that those behind Saturday’s previously scheduled Conor Benn – Chris Eubank Jr fight were going to try to find some way to keep the match a reality after the British Boxing Board Of Control refused to allow it, promotional outlet Matchroom Boxing announced Thursday that

Posted on 10/06/2022 By: Sean Crose Here we go again. Another notable athlete from another sport is making the jump to boxing. This sort of thing has happened before, of course – just look up Ed “Too Tall” Jones or Mark Gastineau. Still, professional athletes trying their hand at professional boxing appears to be all

Posted on 10/05/2022 By: Sean Crose The Voluntary Anti Doping Association, otherwise known as VADA, has found traces of the banned substance clomifene in Conor Benn’s system. According to the Daily Mail (which reportedly broke the story) clomifene “is typically used to treat infertility in women but can increase testosterone in men.” Suffice to say

Posted on 10/04/2022 By: Sean Crose The red hot Shakur Stevenson raised a few eyebrows some weeks back when he lost his WBC super featherweight title on the scales before squaring off with Robson Conceicao. Underdog Conceicao could have picked up the title himself had he ended up beating Stevenson, but that didn’t happen, as

Posted on 10/04/2022 By: Sean Crose If you’ve never seen it, you may well be interested in checking out the first fight between Chris Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn on YouTube. The 1990 bout is a prime example of premiere level boxing. Like an action flick from the era, each fighter gives a high octane,

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 10/03/2022 By: Sean Crose Eddie Hearn, who was rather suspicious from the start of Tyson Fury’s offer to fight Anthony Joshua late this year, has now said outright that, as things stand, a Fury-Joshua bout just ain’t happening. “In our mind, Tyson Fury is not fighting Anthony

Posted on 10/03/2022 By: Sean Crose “Eddie Hearn is stalling everything,” veteran promoter Bob Arum says to talkSPORT, “because he doesn’t want the fight to happen.” Arum, who co-promotes Tyson Fury – along with Britain’s Frank Warren – clearly feels that recent negotiations between team Fury and team Joshua for a heavyweight megafight are coming