(Picture: Ezra Taylor could be in line to fight Carlos Lamela) Cruiserweights Samo Jangirov (8-5-3) and Marko Mononen (8-6) meet in a fight for the vacant BBU title September 7 in Katrineholm (Sweden). The contest is scheduled for eight rounds and as such need special permission from the Martial Arts Delegation. In the chief support,
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In part III, the always topical subject of controversial scorecards is addressed as we attempt to plot our way to a boxing utopia. “Apparently the writer believes in pie in the sky,” was one of the comments on Part II of this series. Not quite, because while utopia – an imagined place or state in
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By: Sean Crose Gervonta Davis. Vasyl Lomachenko. Devin Haney. Teofimo Lopez. These men are all in the general weight realm of WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson. With a record of twenty-one wins against zero losses, the twenty-seven year old Stevenson would be a high profile opponent for any of the aforementioned names. Stevenson is more
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By: Sean Crose “Exercising my authority as president of the WBC,” World Boxing Council head Mauricio Sulaiman posted on social media Thursday night, “I am hereby expelling Ryan Garcia from any activity with our organization.” Garcia, a fighter now as well known for being controversial as he is for processing thunderous power, reportedly went off
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By: Sean Crose On a snowy day back in the winter of 2017 I hopped on a Metro North in Connecticut and made my way down to Manhattan to cover the Genady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title fight. Defending champion Golovkin was at his peak at the time, going through one fighter after another while awaiting
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By: Sean Crose There he was on Saturday at the Prudential Center in his native Newark, engaged in a hometown battle against a determined but outskilled Artem Harutyunyan. It was a perfect moment for WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson to set off fireworks on a Fourth of July weekend. The only problem was he didn’t.
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FinalizeDays after Dan Rafael revealed that Golden Boy was looking to stage Jose Ramirez vs Arnold Barboza Jr later this year, Barboza tells Lance Pugmire that the pair have “struck a verbal deal” to meet later this year, with Ramirez’s manager targeting “late September in Las Vegas.” Ramirez (29-1, 18 KO) and Barboza (30-0, 11
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Apologies for citing Lance Pugmire twice in a row, but he’s got the goods at the moment, bringing word that super middleweight prospect Diego Pacheco is in talks with Kevin Lele Sadjo to meet atop a September 7th DAZN show in Carson. Pacheco (21-0, 17 KO), 23, has long been one of Matchroom Boxing’s most
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