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By: Sean Crose TJ Doheny may well have been the first fighter to give pound for pound superstar Naoya Inoue a challenge in the ring since Nonito Donaire put Inoue on the mat in their extraordinary first battle back in 2019. While it’s true, Naoya was pretty much in charge throughout Tuesday’s battle with Doheny,

By: Sean Crose Erislandy Lara is known as “The American Dream” for a reason. Coming to the United States from oppressive Cuba, the lean and skilled Lara has proven himself to be one of the top practitioners in the sport for at least the last ten years. Now, at forty-one years of age, the veteran

By: Sean Crose He’s certainly not lacking in confidence, and perhaps he shouldn’t be. Edgar Berlanga is undefeated, after all, having stopped seventeen of his twenty-two opponents within the distance. No matter that five of his last six victories have come courtesy the judge’s scorecards, the twenty-seven year old feels he absolutely has what it

By: Sean Crose The 24-7-1 Ivan Redkach took on the 37-5 Jose Zepeda Friday night in Temecula, California. Their scheduled 10 rounder, which was for the Interim WBC silver welterweight title, was the main even of a Marvnation card broadcast on the DAZN streaming service. A terrific left to the body sent Redkach down and

By: Sean Crose The highly anticipated September 21st Pay Per View event between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois will cost Americans $19.99 to watch on pay per view. That’s right, $19.99…around twenty bucks for Yanks to watch the hard hitting Englishmen thrown down in at Wembley Stadium for the IBF heavyweight championship of the world.

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz   By: Sean Crose He’s only 34, which really isn’t THAT old by contemporary boxing standards. Yet, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, the man who perhaps still remains king of the sport of boxing, has been fighting professionally since the age of 15. That’s 65 fights in a career that’s pushing

By: Sean Crose “Due to a hand injury sustained by Shakur Stevenson, he is unable to compete against Joe Cordina on the Bivol-Beterbiev undercard at the upcoming Riyadh Season event on October 12 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.” So Matchroom Boxing, which promotes Stevenson, stated in a Wednesday press release. “The WBC World Lightweight Champion has

By: Sean Crose “It’s easy to say you’ll knock me out,” Canelo Alvarez told Edgar Berlanga at a Tuesday press conference on Wednesday, “but it’s much more difficult to do it. Saturday night is gonna be very difficult for him, for sure. I’ve prepared for the knockout. I love the feeling of a knockout and I’m gonna

By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez and Edgar Berlanga are meeting this Saturday night in Las Vegas as the main event of a pay per view card. Most are expecting Canelo to win, and with good reason. Canelo may be getting a bit long in the figurative tooth, but there’s no denying a Berlanga win would

By: Sean Crose Andy Ruiz was unquestionably the toast of boxing back in 2019. In fact, after shocking Anthony Joshua in Joshua’s American debut in June of that year, Ruiz became a legitimate fan favorite. It was hard not to admire a man who agreed to take on a heavyweight champion of the world on

By: Sean Crose “I feel good, ” says the one and only Terence Crawford on the eve of his junior middleweight ring debut. “I’m feeling great. I’m ready to fight but all my people always try to remind me to enjoy the moment because one day it’s all going to be gone, so embrace it

By: Sean Crose The Olympic Games in Paris have another major controversy on their hands – and this time the controversy comes courtesy the sport of boxing. While competing in the women’s boxing category Thursday, Italy’s Angele Carini quit her fight against Imane Khelif just 46 seconds into the first round. After getting hit clean,

By: Sean Crose He was one of the more interesting fighters on the heavyweight scene. A confident, outspoken New Yorker who could turn out the nights at a moment’s notice. Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller was unquestionably a fighter to watch in a newly invigorated, post-Klitschko heavyweight division. Then came a scheduled bout against heavyweight multititlist

By: Sean Crose Jared “Big Baby” Anderson and Martin Bakole, two supersized heavyweights, met in a ring in Los Angeles Saturday night to do battle in a scheduled ten rounder. A Bakole combination put Anderson down at the end of the first, a round Anderson had previously been fighting well in. Anderson got up and

By: Sean Crose Both Andy Ruiz and Jarrell Miller had a lot on the line when they stepped into the ring in Los Angeles to square off on Saturday. Both men were seen as having underachieved since 2019, and neither man was getting any younger. Yet both fighters were also excellent, hard hitting combatants. If

By: Sean Crose The WBA junior welterweight title was at stake Saturday night in Los Angeles as champion Isaac Cruz slipped in between the ropes to take on Jose Valenzuela in a scheduled 12 rounder. The bout was the co-main event of the Terence Crawford-Israil Madrimov pay per view card. Cruz, as is his habit,

By: Sean Crose Terence Crawford returned to the ring for the first time in a year Saturday when he squared off against WBA junior middleweight titlist Israil Madrimov in Los Angeles. The bout, which was scheduled for twelve rounds, was the main event of a DAZN pay per view card broadcast live from LA’s BMO

By: Sean Crose Naysayers will walk away from Saturday’s junior middleweight title match in Los Angeles with the conviction that Terence Crawford can never defeat Canelo Alvarez. Or that four division champion Crawford is over the hill. Perhaps these people are right on both counts. Perhaps not. Where they’re certainly wrong, however, is in their