Posted on 08/08/2022 By: Sean Crose “Don’t let Hulu fool you,” Mike Tyson stated in a weekend Instagram post. “I don’t support their story about my life. It’s not 1822. It’s 2022. They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. To Hulu executives I’m just a n****r they can sell on the auction block.”
#RuizOrtiz Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-090422 Luis “King Kong” Ortiz stepped out of the boxing gym and into the Los Angeles Rams weight room yesterday to face off against Terrell Burgess, Tyler Higbee, Robert Rochell, and Brian Allen. Watch to the end! Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets
As the heavyweight title rematch between unified champion Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua nears, former world champion Carl Frampton shares his account of what Joshua needs to change in the sequel if he’s going to come out on top. Frampton agrees with the idea that Joshua will have to physically impose himself on the smaller
After a week to digest his disputed early stoppage to Gary Antuanne Russell (16-0, 16 KOs), Rances Barthelemy (29-2-1, 15 KOs), feels his latest performance will garner him another fight against a big name in the super lightweight division. “Although I thought my fight against Gary Antuanne Russell was stopped early, I feel I gave
Posted on 08/08/2022 By: Sean Crose Sometimes it’s best not to bother asking why. After soundly defeating Derek Chisora twice in the ring, WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury is publicly looking for a third match with his fellow Englishman. No matter that Fury has told people he’s retired. The man
Adrien Broner knows how to wind up with a cool $100 million payday—he just can’t figure out why Floyd Mayweather Jr. won’t oblige him. The popular, brash boxer from Cincinnati recently said in an interview with Cigar Talk that he and Mayweather could make “nine figures” fighting each other in a 10-round exhibition bout. Broner,
Posted on 08/06/2022 By: Sean Crose Featherweight Michael Conlan has erased all questions regarding whether or not he’d ever return to form after being knocked out earlier this year in a title fight with Leigh Wood. For on Saturday, the 17-1 Irishman impressed a live Belfast audience by simply outboxing – and even dropping –
Bernard Hopkins is no longer involved in promoting Canelo Alvarez, but he’s still clearly a big fan of the Mexican superstar, and is picking Canelo to stop Gennadiy Golovkin when those two rivals meet for a third time on Sept. 17. “I think there’s going to be more blows coming from both sides. I’m picking
Mike Tyson has never backed down from a fight, and the former heavyweight champion of the world is now picking a battle of a different variety. Streaming service Hulu will premiere “Mike” on August 25 – nearly a year and a half after Tyson blasted the decision to greenlight the show as “tone-deaf cultural misappropriation.”
Posted on 08/06/2022 By: Sean Crose Texan Maurice Hooker appeared on Saturday’s Ortiz-McKinson card at Dickies’ Arena in Fort Worth. The 27-2-3 super welterweight battled the 15-1-1 Blair Cobbs in a bout scheduled for ten. Cobbs rocked and then dropped Hooker at the end of the first. Hooker beat the count and went on to trade
Vergil Ortiz Jr kept his unbeaten record and stoppage streak intact, putting a game but over-matched Michael McKinson away early in the ninth round tonight in Fort Worth, Tex. Ortiz (19-0, 19 KO) just had too much for McKinson (22-1, 2 KO), whose total lack of power pretty well doomed him, even though he showed
(Feb. 20, 2021) Robert Easter Jr. scores a convincing unanimous decision victory over Ryan Martin in their 12-round super lightweight bout on SHOWTIME. UNCASVILLE, Conn. – February 21, 2021 – Former world champion Robert Easter Jr. (23-1-1, 14 KOs) showed his championship pedigree with a dominating unanimous decision victory over Chattanooga, Tenn.’s Ryan Martin (24-2,
The hot all German matchup for the vacant EBU super welterweight title between Wasserman fighter Abass Baraou (12-1) and AGON Sports’ Jama Saidi (21-2), that was set for September 10 in Wuppertal, is now off. Saidi has been diagnosed with a heart problem that is so serious that he might be forced to retire, reports
Posted on 08/06/2022 By: Sean Crose “The undercard boxers,” Jake Paul’s MVP Promotions stated in a Saturday press release, “who were set to fight today as part of the Jake Paul & Amanda Serrano MVP event spent countless hours training both physically and mentally to prepare to fight on one of the biggest stages of
ESPN+ and Social Media, 4:00 pm ET, Lopez vs Campa press conference. ESPN2, 3:30 pm ET, Lopez vs Campa weigh-in. They’re doing a “Max on Boxing” live special for the weigh-in. They’re treating Teofimo Lopez’s return as a big deal. There’s also an ESPN+ stream starting at 4 ET for the undercard weigh-ins. ESPN+, 6:30
Three-division crownholder Terence Crawford has been considered one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world for better parts of the last half decade. The mythical rankings have shifted in recent years when you consider Canelo Alvarez’s crusade across three weight classes and most recent fall as well as Naoya Inoue’s ascent pulverizing opponents in
Posted on 08/07/2022 By: Sean Crose The 18-0 Vergil Ortiz headlined a main event at Dickies’ Arena in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday when he faced a fellow undefeated fighter, the 22-0 Mike McKinson. The battle was scheduled for 12 in the welterweight division. The bout opened with an accidental headbutt in the first which
12:50 AM ET Vergil Ortiz Jr. looked across the ring on Saturday night and saw one of boxing’s bureaucratic speed bumps. In order for Ortiz to inch closer to a crack at a legitimate boxing championship, he had to first defeat Michael McKinson, who was modestly ranked by a couple of the sport’s sanctioning bodies.