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Posted on 04/10/2022 By: Sean Crose The 24-1 Erickson Lubin faced the 18-0-1 Sebastian Fundora for the WBC interim super welterweight title Saturday night at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas. The scheduled 12 round affair was the main event of a televised Showtime/Premier Boxing Champions’ card. The opening chapter saw Lubin pick away at his

Posted on 04/10/2022 By: Hans Themistode ESTHER LIN/SHOWTIME Sebastian Fundora has often been the subject of criticism. Standing at nearly 6’6”, the 24-year-old towers over most heavyweights, let alone junior middleweights, the weight class in which he currently competes in. Although Fundora could use his freakishly tall frame to keep his opponents at bay, he

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 04/10/2022 By: Hans Themistode It was a picture-perfect start to Ryan Garcia’s 2021 fighting campaign. The extremely confident 23-year-old showed resolve and heart by picking himself up off the deck against Luke Campbell to register a seventh-round knockout win. While Garcia was ultimately hoping that his victory

Posted on 04/09/2022 By: Sean Crose On the surface of things, it looks like David and Goliath. Junior welterweight Erickson Lubin stands at just under 5’10 – common for the 154 pound weight realm. His opponent this Saturday night at Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas, however, stands nearly 6’6. That’s right, the 18-0-1 Sebastian Fondura

Posted on 04/09/2022 By: Sean Crose Don’t expect Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star, to test positive for banned substances after eating tainted beef. For while preparing for his May light heavyweight title bout against the formidable Dmitry Bivol, Canelo has decided to go vegan (engaging in a diet free of meat and animal by-products) For

Posted on 04/08/2022 By: Hans Themistode Joe Camporeale/USA Today Sports By and large, Canelo Alvarez is considered the best fighter that the sport of boxing has to offer. No matter the weight class and regardless of the credentials of his opponent, Alvarez has reigned supreme as he pillages world title after world title in countless

Posted on 04/08/2022 By: Hans Themistode While he holds an undefeated record and high placement in each of the four sanctioning bodies, Sebastian Fundora is consistently criticized for the manner in which he fights. Or rather, the manner in which he refuses to fight. At 6’6”, even heavyweights are forced to look toward the sky

Posted on 04/08/2022 By: Sean Crose “I don’t really have that many emotions,” Ryan Garcia said when asked by Fight Hub about tomorrow night’s return fight against Emmanuel Tagoe. “I just know I have a job to do, a mission to do, Saturday night.” First and foremost, that mission is to successfully get himself back

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 04/07/2022 By: Hans Themistode Following Floyd Mayweather’s lackluster boxing exhibition against YouTuber Logan Paul on June 6th, 2021, the newly inducted Hall of Famer stated shortly after, that it would likely be the last time he appeared in the ring. However, after further thought, Mayweather has changed

Posted on 04/07/2022 By: Hans Themistode Photo Credit: Henry Deleon Gervonta Davis has heard his fair share of criticism over the selection of his opponent. With the current Baltimore native set to defend his secondary 135-pound title against Rolando “Rolly” Romero on May 28th, in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, oddsmakers have pegged Davis as a considerable

Posted on 04/07/2022 By: Sean Crose Give longtime heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte this – he’s not going to let WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury get inside his head. As the clock winds down to the Fury-Whyte heavyweight title bout, which will go down in front of 94,000 people at Wembley Stadium on April

Posted on 04/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode Erickson Lubin has successfully peeled himself up off the canvas, both figuratively and literally. With the entire boxing world watching, the Florida native would lose in stunning fashion at the hands of Jermell Charlo in October of 2017. While initially embarrassed and acrimonious by the way things played out,

Posted on 04/06/2022 By: Hans Themistode Errol Spence Jr. has heard the conversations loud and clear for the past few years now. Although many believe that the unified welterweight star is the best fighter in the division, there are an equal number of fans who are under the assumption that Terence Crawford, actually holds that

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 04/06/2022 By: Hans Themistode Normally stoic and stone-faced, Errol Spence Jr. couldn’t stop himself from smiling when Manny Pacquiao inked his name on the dotted line. Having watched Pacquiao fight as a youngster, Spence Jr. believed that a matchup against the surefire future first ballot Hall of

Posted on 04/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode No matter how unlikely his dreams and ambitions appeared to be, Caleb Plant believed it was preordained for him to become the first undisputed super middleweight champion of all time. With Plant already in possession of the IBF 168 pound crown, all that was left for Plant to do

Posted on 04/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode Gennadiy Golovkin was in utter disbelief when the scorecards were initially announced following 12 hard-fought rounds against Canelo Alvarez in 2018. With the soon-to-be 40-year-old suffering the first defeat of his career, he’s turned the page on the controversial outcome. While Golovkin has gone on to pick up victories

Posted on 04/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode Like many in the boxing world, Ismael Salas grabbed a seat near his television set, reclined comfortably, and watched carefully as Errol Spence Jr. and Danny Garcia traded blows in the center of the ring in December of 2020. Roughly one year prior, it seemed incredibly unlikely that the

Posted on 04/04/2022 By: Hans Themistode Demetrius Andrade’s time as a 160 pounder didn’t go exactly the way he originally envisioned it. After winning the vacant WBO crown against Walter Kautondokwa in 2018, Andrade believed that his path to big-time fights, and even bigger bags of cash, was a clear one. However, with the Rhode