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Posted on 08/18/2022 By: Sean Crose “I am a bit heavier than I was last time,” WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk has told Sky Sports. “I’m not sure the weight I’m going to be walking to the ring, we’re going to see it on Friday. I’m not a big forecaster. You’ll see

Posted on 08/18/2022 By: Sean Crose On the eve of the much hyped Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua heavyweight title rematch set to go down in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a Saudi woman has reportedly been given a lengthy prison sentence for remarks she made on Twitter. Per the BBC, “Salma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 08/17/2022 By: Sean Crose He’s back. Former WBC heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder is going to return to the fight game on October 15h. His opponent will be fellow heavy Robert Helenius. Their fight will be a scheduled 12 rounder and will be the main event of a

Posted on 08/16/2022 By: Sean Crose “Usyk’s got everything,” Eddie Hearn told ES News in a video released Tuesday. In a sense, the Matchroom Boxing honcho was right. Ukraine’s Usyk is heading into this weekend’s much hyped fight with Anthony Joshua with the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles in his possession. Usyk is also

Posted on 08/16/2022 By: Sean Crose Sometimes you just have to take people at their word. That’s a fact. While it’s true some can feign mental illness, depression or challenging scenarios for the sole purpose of making life easier for themselves, the truth is untold numbers of people DO suffer from such things and are

Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose With Adrien Broner having removed himself from Saturday’s scheduled bout with with Omar Figueroa, Sergey Lipinets, who was scheduled to fight on the undercard, has been chosen to take Broner’s place. “Former world champ @unionsamurai,” Showtime Boxing tweeted, “steps in to battle @OmarFigueroaJr in a WBC 140-lb title eliminator

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose Rewatching the first Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk fight from last September, it becomes instantly obvious that Usyk controlled the tempo. From the opening bell on, the Ukrainian employed an extremely fast paced, herky-jerky style, effectively throwing Joshua off his rhythm from the start. In

Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose “Sorry to all my fans,” Adrien Broner posted on Instagram Monday morning, “but #MentalHealth is real and I’m not about to play inside the ring I’ve watched a lot of people die playing with they boxing career and that is something I won’t do (sic).” With those words, Broner made it

Posted on 08/14/2022 By: Sean Crose A dedicated North American boxing fan no doubt has known for a while that Anthony Joshua will try to win back the heavyweight belts he lost last fall to Oleksandr Usyk when he rematches the masterful Ukrainian this coming weekend in Saudi Arabia. What that dedicated North American boxing

Posted on 08/13/2022 By Sean Crose Xander Zayas, the rising 13-0 junior middleweight, took on the 22-4-0 Elias Espadas in a scheduled 8 rounder Saturday night at Resorts World Las Vegas. The match was the co-main event of Top Rank’s Teofimo Lopez-Pedro Campas card and was broadcast live by ESPN. The 19-0 Zayas got to work

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz   Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Former WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist Teofimo Lopez returned to the ring on Saturday night – this time as a junior welterweight – to take on the little known Pedro Campa in a scheduled 10 rounder. The bout was the main

Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury has been making quite a lot of news lately. First, he called out fellow heavyweight Derek Chisora, who he’s battled and bested twice. Then the towering Englishman announced that he had a new trainer in Isaac Lowe. Then, if that wasn’t enough, the undefeated WBC and lineal

Posted on 08/12/2022 By: Sean Crose Teofimo Lopez, the former WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist, returns to the ring this Saturday night when he squares off against the largely unheralded Pedro Campa at Resorts World Las Vegas in a scheduled 10 round junior welterweight affair. It will be Lopez’ first foray into that division.

Posted on 08/12/2022 By: Sean Crose It’s strange. It’s frustrating. It’s also newsworthy. Tyson Fury, who is still widely and largely regarded as the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world, has decided to retire once more. This after recently calling out Derek Chisora and claiming he had a new trainer. Fury loves to

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 08/11/2022 By: Sean Crose “Undefeated lightweight phenom Teofimo Lopez,” I wrote back in 2018, “10-1, slipped between the ropes to battle the 34-3 Mason Menard. The match was as brief as it was violent. Lopez rocked his man with a right almost immediately, unloaded his arsenal, then

Posted on 08/10/2022 By: Sean Crose “That loss kind of brought the situation back to reality,” Gennady Golovkin says in a New York Post interview, “back to the actual state of things.” The 40 year long time titlist is referring to arch rival Canelo Alvarez’ loss to Dmitry Bivol last May. “I’ve known Canelo for

Posted on 08/10/2022 By: Sean Crose Speaking with FightHub, welterweight Keith Thurman commented on former – and possibly future – opponent Danny Garcia’s opening up about the anxiety and emotional issues that have plagued him. “When you’re trying to be elite…falling short of greatness, it can just bring you down,” Thurman said. “And how great

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz   Posted on 08/09/2022 By: Sean Crose The Tyson Fury saga continues. “I’ve decided to come back to boxing,” Tyson Fury, the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world declares in a video released Tuesday, “because I can be the first heavyweight champion in history to have two