As we gear up for Saturday’s clash between IBF heavyweight titleholder Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium in London, it feels like the right time to take a trip down memory lane and reflect on the best heavyweights of the past 24 years. The bout, set to air on pay-per-view, might be flying
Once again, Gary Russell Jr is calling for a fight with Gervonta “Tank” Davis. “I would love to get back in the game,” Russell said in a recent interview with The Boxing Source. “I hear ‘Tank’ don’t got an opponent yet. What’s up, Tank? They say he don’t got no opponent yet. I’m open to
Is Caleb Plant inching toward Hall of Fame status? Maybe not, but he’s starting to look like more than just a former titleholder. On Saturday night, Caleb Plant stopped Trevor McCumby (28-1, 21 KOs) with just one second left in the ninth round at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, solidifying his status as more than
Kevin Lerena still wants the title fight he earned against the WBC bridgerweight titlist Lawrence Okolie. “I’m mandated to fight Lawrence Okolie, me being the WBC interim bridgerweight champion and him being the full champion,” Lerena (30-3, 14 KOs) recently told Boxing Social. But the forward momentum towards Okolie-Lerena has come to a halt – at
Moses Itauma is looking forward to a competitive, exciting fight when the IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois defends his title against the “switched on” Anthony Joshua at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night. The 19 year old heavyweight prodigy should return to the ring in November, by which point the landscape of his weight division could
Daniel Dubois will be the final man to speak at every media event all week. He will walk to the ring second on Saturday night and, when he gets there, he will be announced as the IBF heavyweight champion of the world. Dubois, 21-2 (20 KOs), will pay little attention to the pre-fight pageantry. The
Willy Hutchinson is a naturally self-assured character but only he will know whether the outrageous levels of confidence he displayed before his excellent victory over Craig Richards in June was real or a front intended to throw Richards. Whichever it was, it worked. Richards appeared baffled by the talented Scot’s behaviour before the fight and
The lightweights Joshua James Pagan and Trevor Thonson will fight at the Coca Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 18. They will fight over 10 rounds, after the 10-round light-heavyweight contest between Juan Carillo and Lenin Castillo. “This is something I’ve dreamed about since I was a kid watching fights on
In exchange for the toll of his first loss, Jaime Munguia continues to learn how greatly he cashed in so many more valuable opportunities. Mexico’s Munguia (43-1, 34 KOs) on Friday night returns from a May 4 unanimous decision defeat to boxing’s most popular fighter, countryman Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, by shifting to a new, one-fight
By: Sean Crose This weekend boxing fans are getting the fight Canelo Alvarez wanted. While it’s true fans would have been happy if Canelo had chosen to face powerhouse David Benavidez on Saturday night, this is Canelo’s world we’re living in it. Therefore, the future Hall of Famer will be facing Edgar Berlanga in a
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez defended his super middleweight titles Saturday night against the brash young Edgar Berlanga. Like many before him, Berlanga seemed impacted by Canelo’s shots in the first. They may not have been particularly damaging blows, but they let the challenger know what kind of power
By: Sean Crose “It’s another day for me,” former heavyweight multi-titlist Anthony Joshua says on the eve of his IBF world championship fight against the hard hitting Daniel Dubois. “We’re going to do some media stuff. Spirits are good actually. I’ve prepared for this so it’s not taking time out of my schedule. It fits
With the news breaking that Shakur Stevenson’s fight with Joe Cordina is going in the dumpster now that Stevenson has had to withdraw due to an injury suffered in training camp, his Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn talks about what happened and what will be the plan for Stevenson now. Hearn on Stevenson injuring himself and
An intriguing clash of undefeated super bantamweights is back on the schedule after Queensberry Promotions announced a November 2nd Birmingham show headlined by Liam Davies vs Shabaz Masoud. The pair were initially set to meet in July before Davies (16-0, 8 KO) withdrew due to illness, leaving Masoud (13-0, 4 KO) to pitch an eight-round
Caleb Plant took to the podium during today’s final press conference to make sure Trevor McCumby is aware of what he’s getting himself into this weekend. Plant would make references to members of McCumby’s team heckling him during a previous presser, and says while that trash talking might sound good, McCumby knows what he’ll be
Juan Francisco Estrada won’t be running it back with Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez after all, as Salvador Rodriguez reports that “El Gallo” will instead follow in rival Roman Gonzalez’s footsteps and move to 118 pounds. Estrada (44-4, 28 KO) ends a nearly decade-long stretch at super flyweight, which kicked off in earnest in 2016. He’d previously
Shakur Stevenson won’t be making his next scheduled outing after suffering a torn tendon in his hand during a recent sparring session, which required immediate surgery, and now Fight Hype has released a video clip of the sparring session where the injury occurred. Stevenson would reportedly tear a tendon in his knuckle during the sparring,
In this video interview with Fight Hype, Caleb Plant’s trainer Stephen ‘Breadman’ Edwards talks about tailoring Plant’s approach in training camp for this upcoming fight against Trevor McCumby and why it’s been paying dividends. Breadman also touches on why the general inactivity of today’s fighters hamper their growth as professionals. Check out some excerpts of
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