5:33 PM ET Less than a year after losing her junior lightweight title, Terri Harper moved up multiple divisions and took another crown. Harper beat Hannah Rankin by unanimous decision Saturday in Nottingham, England, to win Rankin’s WBA junior middleweight title, a massive change for the former WBC junior lightweight champion. All three judges scored
Josh Warrington will defend his IBF featherweight title against mandatory challenger Luis Alberto Lopez, with Warrington having home field advantage for the fight on Dec. 10 in Leeds, England. Warrington vs Lopez will air live on DAZN. Warrington (31-1-1, 8 KO) vacated the IBF title instead of taking a mandatory rematch with Kid Galahad, which
Amanda Serrano has spent much of her historic career fighting to open doors for all women to thrive in the sport. Saturday’s featherweight unification bout with unbeaten Sarah Mahfoud comes with a new cause, one that touches a personal level among her team. “I really want to say something that’s important to me. I’m dedicating
Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose On Friday evening, the World Boxing Association released the following statement on social media: “The WBA Championships Committee, in another decision following the world title reduction plan, ordered the bout between Middleweight Super Champion Gennady Golovkin (@GGGBoxing) and his mandatory challenger Erislandy Lara (@Laraboxing) #GGGLara.” And so it appears
9:45 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — The undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. says Japanese fans will be able to “see a glimpse of the old pretty boy” when he fights the Manny Pacquiao-trained Mikuru Asakura in a three-round exhibition on Sunday. The 45-year-old Mayweather told reporters on Saturday that he is in good condition for
Floyd Mayweather returns to the ring tonight from Saitama, Japan, taking on MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura in an exhibition boxing bout at the RIZIN 38 MMA event at Saitama Super Arena. Mayweather, 45, has made some money trotting the globe for these exhibitions since retiring from competitive boxing seemingly for good in 2017. This will
NEWARK, New Jersey – Shakur Stevenson didn’t defend his 130-pound championships Friday night, but he battered Robson Conceicao for most of their 12-round fight to ensure Conceicao couldn’t win them, either. The unbeaten Stevenson dominated Conceicao throughout their bout at Prudential Center in Stevenson’s hometown of Newark. A day after losing his titles at the
Posted on 09/24/2022 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson may not have had his title belts when he stepped into the ring at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on Friday night, but there was no doubt the 18-0 fighter had the hometown crowd behind him. Stevenson, who originally hailed from Newark, lost his WBO
2:01 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Shakur Stevenson lost his titles on the scales on Thursday, but on Friday night, he dominated Robson Conceicao in a unanimous decision victory to stay unbeaten. With the win, Stevenson ended his run at 130 pounds and is now headed to the lightweight division where bigger and better matchups await.
Undefeated welterweight contender Rashidi Ellis and trainer Malik Scott are this week’s guests on The PBC Podcast. Ellis says he’s ready to take center stage as he discusses his ring return and potential opponents. Scott is in camp mode, training former long-time heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder for Wilder’s showdown versus Robert Helenius Saturday, October 15,
The boxing world from Tyson Fury and Ricky Hatton to Amanda Serrano and Anthony Yarde give their verdict on the huge heavyweight showdown between Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker. #JoyceParker #JoeJoyce #JosephParker Watch #JoyceParker live this Saturday on BT Sport Box Office. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing
Podcast listeners heard Scott Christ and me despairing earlier this week over upcoming October weekends with no televised boxing. It appears we panicked too soon, because Triller stepped in to fill at least one gap on the calendar with an October 22nd live show and FITE broadcast called ‘LINEAGE OF GREATNESS II’. The show happens
NEWARK, New Jersey – Shakur Stevenson doesn’t take pound-for-pound debates all that seriously. The unbeaten Stevenson understands the subjective nature of constructing such lists. That’s why he hasn’t taken offense to criticism from those that feel he hasn’t accomplished enough to warrant a spot in the top 10. Naturally, Stevenson believes he belongs among the
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose “He said yesterday that I am fake,” Robson Conceicao said of Shakur Stevenson after the weigh in for their Friday night fight, “so he shows to the world whose fake – it’s him.” Conceicao was understandably put off by the fact that Stevenson,
9:02 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Shakur Stevenson returns to his native Newark, New Jersey, squarely on the precipice of pound-for-pound greatness, if not stardom. At 25, Stevenson owns an Olympic silver medal along with titles in two weight classes. Until Thursday, when he failed to make weight, Stevenson was a unified champion at 130 pounds.
Floyd Mayweather will return to exhibition action on Saturday night U.S. time, facing Mikuru Asakura in a bout from Saitama Super Arena in Japan. Here’s how you can watch the show. If you’re in the United States, the the exhibition fight is available on pay-per-view for a cost of $29.99, through traditional cable and satellite.
The show goes on even in the absence of its local hero. Maxi Hughes and Kid Galahad are prepared to take the lead in their makeshift main event, as both made weight for their scheduled twelve-round IBO lightweight contest. The bout will headline a DAZN telecast Saturday evening from Nottingham Arena in Nottingham, England. Hughes
Posted on 09/23/2022 By: Sean Crose Shakur Stevenson takes on Robson Conceicao in a twelve round main event tonight at Newark, New Jersey’s Prudential Center. The fight will be aired live on ESPN and ESPN+ starting at 10 PM eastern time. The 18-0 Stevenson was supposed to be defending his WBO and WBC junior lightweight