Headlines

Posted on 07/09/2021 By: Sean Crose It’s getting more and more common – the belief that today’s big heavyweights would defeat even the best old time heavyweights due to their size advantage. I’ve thought this over a bit, and have concluded that…I’m not so sure at all. While it’s hard to imagine a 175 pound

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 07/09/2021 By: Sean Crose “It’s all about boxing immortality for Manny Pacquiao,” says the Filipino legend’s longtime trainer, Freddie Roach. The man should know. Since coming to America and working under Roach’s tutelage, Pacquiao has become one of the biggest names in sports, never mind boxing. Now,

Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 07/08/2021 By: Sean Crose Boxing Insider has confirmed that Tyson Fury has been infected by Covid-19. What this means, of course, is that his scheduled July 24th fight with Deontay Wilder is now being pushed back. The question now is how far back? Fury was originally supposed

Posted on 07/08/2021 By: Hans Themistode MULVANE, KS – NOVEMBER 17: Luis Arias and Gabriel Rosado during their bout on November 17, 2018 at the Kansas Star Casino. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Boxing USA) For most of his career, Gabriel Rosado was brought in as the sacrificial lamb so to speak. With 13 losses smeared

Posted on 07/08/2021 By: Sean Crose ESPN is reporting that the upcoming Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua WBC heavyweight title match, which is set to go down just a few weeks from now, may well be postponed. It’s being cited that a Covid outbreak in the Fury camp is the reason for the possible scheduling change. The

Posted on 07/07/2021 By: Hans Themistode It didn’t quite make any sense. At the age of 42 and having accomplished more than just about everyone in the squared circle, Manny Pacquiao could have easily walked away from the sport of boxing and rode off into the sunset. Throughout the course of his career, the former

Posted on 07/07/2021 By: Hans Themistode Jermell Charlo is only a few days away from attempting a lifelong dream. The unified 154-pound titlist is set to take on WBO belt holder, Brian Castano on July 17th at the Alamodome in San Antonio Texas. If Charlo were to win, he would become the first undisputed world

Posted on 07/07/2021 By: Sean Crose He could be Jack Dempsey. Or Joe Louis. Or any number of other legends of the first half of the last century. For there you see him in the brief video clip, wearing a thin white tank top and white shorts, circling a heavy bag, hammering away at it,

Posted on 07/06/2021 By: Hans Themistode David Benavidez currently has tunnel vision. The former 168-pound titlist is in the midst of an arduous training camp as he prepares to take on former super middleweight belt holder, Jose Uzcategui on August 28th. Although Benavidez knows that the hard-hitting Venezuelan is no pushover, he can’t help but

Posted on 07/06/2021 By: Hans Themistode Like most, Jorge Linares was completely taken aback with what took place when Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez squared off late last year. Having shared the ring with the Ukrainian, Linares expected the pound-for-pound star to take care of business against his explosive, yet inexperienced opponent. Those thoughts, however,

Posted on 07/06/2021 By: Hans Themistode Jermell Charlo has continued to stack up the wins. The unified 154-pound titlist has knocked out several top contenders in the division including Tony Harrison, Erickson Lubin and most recently, former unified champion, Jeison Rosario. Yet, no matter how many times he mows over the competition and regardless of

Posted on 07/05/2021 By: Sean Crose You know fight time is fast approaching when Manny Pacquiao arrives in Los Angeles to begin camp with trainer Freddy Roach. Although his practice is to start preparing for a fight in his Filipino homeland, Pacquiao can usually be found heading to sunny California in the six to eight

Posted on 07/05/2021 By: Hans Themistode It was essentially a lateral, albeit still successful move. As first reported by ESPN’s Mike Coppinger, Gervonta Davis vs. Mario Barrios generated just over 200,000 pay-per-view buys. Coppinger also reported that the final figure for the event, which took place on June 26th, in Atlanta Georgia, will settle in

Posted on 07/02/2021 By: Sean Crose The list of fighters wanting to return to the ring is growing and growing since Mike Tyson’s highly successful exhibition bout against Roy Jones late last fall. For now, another former heavyweight king is planning to come back to the sport. Riddick Bowe, the early 90s heavyweight champ and

Posted on 07/02/2021 By: Hans Themistode Although they’ve never met face to face, there has always been a deep amount of admiration between Gervonta Davis and Canelo Alvarez. Whenever posed with the question of who’s the number one pound for pound fighter in the world, Davis has never hesitated in siding with Alvarez. As for

Posted on 07/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode Chris Colbert was initially disappointed when he got the news. After nearing the end of a long and arduous training camp, the Brooklyn, New York native was informed that Yuriokis Gamboa was no longer able to compete against him due to injuries. While the current WBA 130 pound interim

Posted on 07/03/2021 By: Sean Crose The undefeated 20-0 lightweight Michel Rivera appeared on Saturday’s Showtime Boxing broadcast from the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. His opponent in a scheduled 12 rounder was the 21-1 Jon Fernandez. This was the first time Rivera had stepped into the ring since February, when he had

Posted on 07/04/2021 By: Sean Crose The undefeated 15-0 super featherweight Chris Colbert defended his secondary WBA title Saturday when he faced the 12-1 Tugstsogt Nyambayar at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The match was aired live on Showtime and was scheduled for 12 rounds. The very slick Colbert was initially set