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Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 06/28/2022 By: Sean Crose It appears former multi-divisional titlist Mikey Garcia has packed it in and called it a career. Although no public announcement has been made, Garcia’s own Instagram page refers to the 40-2 fighter as a “Retired World Champ 126, 130, 135, 140 lbs”. Garcia

Posted on 06/28/2022 By: Sean Crose ” So, I just want to come on here and set the record straight before anybody else tries to.” So says Tommy Fury, scheduled opponent of Jake Paul and brother of heavyweight kingpin Tyson Fury, in a video posted to social media Tuesday. “Me and my team this morning

Posted on 06/27/2022 By: Sean Crose During a Monday press conference in New York City to promote their September 17 fight, Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin once again made it clear that they really don’t like one another. Promoter Eddie Hearn started things off by essentially offering Golovkin the opportunity to backtrack on some of

Posted on 06/27/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury. Jake Paul. If there are two more outsized and colorful (some would say annoying) personalities this side of Adrien Broner, it’s news to the boxing world. Fury, the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world (no one knows whether or not to believe his claim that

Posted on 06/25/2022 By: Sean Crose Jessica McCaskill, the undisputed welterweight champion of the world, defended her belts against Alma Ibarra at the Tech Port Arena in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday. The bout was scheduled for 10 two minute rounds. The 10-1 Ibarra had to deal with the 11-2 McCaskill coming at her with bad

Posted on 06/25/2022 By: Sean Crose Murodjon Akhmadaliev put his WBA and IBF super bantamweight titles on the line against Ronny Rios in a scheduled 12 rounder at the Tech Port Arena in San Antonio on Saturday. The 10-0 Akhmadaliev and the 33-3 Rios essentially felt each other out in the first. The second round

Posted on 06/25/2022 By: Sean Crose Jesse Rodriguez, the 15-0  defending WBC super featherweight champion of the world, took on the title’s former owner, the 50-5-1 Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, in a scheduled 12 round, DAZN-broadcasted main event at San Antonio’s Tech Port Arena on Saturday night. Were Sor Rungvisai to take Rodriguez’ belt, he would be

Posted on 06/24/2022 By: Sean Crose “He pretends to be a nice guy,” Canelo Alvarez said of arch rival Gennady Golovkin on Friday, “but he’s not. He’s an asshole.” Both fighters were at a Los Angeles press conference to begin the media tour for their highly anticipated third fight, which will go down September 17th

Posted on 06/24/2022 By: Sean Crose San Antonio’s Tech Port Arena will be hosting a WBC super flyweight title fight on Saturday that will be broadcast live on the DAZN streaming service. The scheduled twelve round affair will pit the 15-0 defending titlist Jesse Rodriguez against the 50-5-1 former two time titlist Srisaket Sor Rungvisai.

Posted on 06/23/2022 By: Sean Crose “I wasn’t sure I was going to say yes to another potential matchup against Tommy after he pulled out of our matchup last year,” Jake Paul claimed in a press statement released to promoter his August 6th cruiserweight battle against Tommy Fury. “Ultimately,” he added,” knocking out a Fury

Posted on 06/23/2022 By: Sean Crose “I accept.” Those two words appeared on a social media post from UFC star and (on one occasion) professional boxer Conor McGregor. The two word sentence was accompanied by a photo of McGregor and Mayweather fully engaged in their 2017 novelty superfight. Although the post was vague, it’s nonetheless

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz   Posted on 06/23/2022 By: Sean Crose It took a whole lot of smack talk to get to this point. Or perhaps it didn’t. Either way, social media star turned not half bad up and coming boxer Jake Paul is now officially going to square off against Tommy Fury

Posted on 06/22/2022 By: Sean Crose The Garden was packed to the rafters that night. Jerry Seinfeld was said to be in attendance, as was who knows how many notables from the worlds of sports and showbiz. There was no mistaking the fact that Gennady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs was a fight of note. Could Golovkin prove

Posted on 06/22/2022 By: Sean Crose “I wake up this morning,” Jake Paul states on a social media post, “to another text from my manager saying that Tommy Fury is pulling out of the fight.” Fury, brother of heavyweight kingpin Tyson Fury, has been expected to throw down with Paul in the coming weeks at

Posted on 06/21/2022 By: Sean Crose “Most of the tickets are gone, Ryan Garcia says in a recent video from ESNews. “The good seats, they’re going.” There’s no doubt that Garcia is a popular fighter. With a 22-0 record, the 23 year old Californian already has endorsement deals and millions of social media followers and

Posted on 06/21/2022 By: Sean Crose Color the boxing world not surprised. The third Canelo-Golovkin fight will go down September 17th at – wait for it – the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the exact same location where the first two high end battles between the future Hall of Famers went down. The truth is,

Posted on 06/21/2022 By: Sean Crose “Definitely the hunger’s still there,” Anthony Joshua said at a Tuesday press conference to promote his August 20th rematch with IBF, WBA, and WBO world heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk. “As I said from the get go,” he continued, “stay hungry.” Joshua will have to be hungry if he wishes

Posted on 06/18/2022 By: Sean Crose Those who love to say boxing is dead might want to check this out: over fourteen thousand people attended a single boxing class Saturday in Mexico City. With esteemed teachers such as Jose Cuevas, Erik Morales and Andy Ruiz Jr leading the half hour session, students dressed in the