Sports mismatches are a feature, not a bug. Bracketed tournaments open with the highest seeds fighting the lowest seeds and round-robin formats disregard relative strength entirely. Those are products of circumstance, though; in those sorts of arrangements, the participants themselves don’t hand-select weak opponents. Things like college athletics have a bit more leeway involved, allowing
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Ahead of this weekend’s big main event between Canelo Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, PBC releases its first episode of PBC Gloves Off, taking a behind the scenes look at the respective fighters heading into the PPV event. Training camp has long been underway at this stage, and at the
Featherweight Nick Ball would have had less than three months to get over his split-decision draw with Rey Vargas when he steps into the ring with WBA champion Raymond Ford on the Queensberry-Matchroom 5 vs 5 undercard for Artur Beterbiev-Dmitrii Bivol in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June 1. “Yeah that’s it innit,” Ball told BoxingScene
Bernard Hopkins has discussed the possibility of Ryan Garcia (25-1, 20 KOs) stepping into the ring against former unified world welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. (28-1, 22 KOs) following Garcia’s emphatic victory against Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) on April 20 at the Barclays Center in New York. Despite failing to make the 140lbs weight
Promoter Eddie Hearn expects Canelo Alvarez to stop Jaime Munguia this Saturday, but admitted the Mexican veteran’s age could come into play the longer the fight lasts. Canelo defends his undisputed title against fellow Mexican Munguia this Cinco de Mayo weekend (May 4), in what has been billed as the old champion versus the hungry
Oscar De La Hoya has predicted a “changing of the guard” when on Saturday Jaime Munguia challenges Saul Alvarez for the undisputed super-middleweight title. “Canelo” Alvarez enters the all-Mexican showdown, at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on Cinco de Mayo weekend, as the significant favourite against Munguia – a proven fighter but one who, unlike David
With a week’s worth of consideration, Bill Haney – Devin Haney’s father and trainer – says his ultimate regret is “not enforcing the three pounds” that Ryan Garcia came in overweight before dealing Haney his first loss April 20. “That’s calculated. That’s cheating,” the elder Haney told BoxingScene Monday in an extended telephone interview, during
Much of the criteria typically leaned upon to approve a boxer’s fitness for a fight is dated in the case of Mike Tyson, who hasn’t been inside a professional boxing ring for 19 years. In explaining the process used to approve the Monday sanctioning of Tyson’s July 20 bout with YouTuber Jake Paul as a
Trash talk tends to rule boxing, and poor behavior often generates big money. Vergil Ortiz and Tim Tszyu, who will square off in a junior middleweight fight on Aug. 3 in Los Angeles, break the mold. Last Saturday, Ortiz notched a first-round knockout against former world title contender Thomas Dulorme – Ortiz’s second opening-round knockout
Free agent Jesse Hart is ready for a big fight and hopes the likes of Caleb Plant or Edgar Berlanga are prepared to pick up the phone. Philadelphia’s Hart improved to 31-3 (25 KOs) with a fifth-round stoppage of Daniel Adku (15-5-1, 11 KOs) at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Saturday, and now wants
Former 2016 United States Olympian Karlos Balderas, who is trained by Robert Garcia and David Balderas, will return to action on June 7 against Gilberto Espinoza Zarate in a scheduled eight-rounder at the Chumash Casino Resort. It will be Balderas’ first fight since signing an exclusive promotional contract with Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions. Balderas (14-2,
Jose Ramirez and Vergil Ortiz Jr. could appear on more fight cards together. The pair both won Saturday in Fresno, California, as Ramirez picked up a 12-round unanimous decision victory over Rances Barthelemy and Ortiz stopped Thomas Dulorme in one round. Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs) and Ramirez (29-1, 17 KOs), who both train at Robert
Posted on 04/22/2024 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney took a beating from Ryan Garcia Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. That wasn’t how things were supposed to have turned out. Garcia, who had been acting bizarrely in the leadup to the fight, missed weight by a whopping three plus pounds and came across as not
Posted on 04/23/2024 By: Sean Crose It appears the question of when the great Terence Crawford will return to the ring has been answered. According to numerous reports, the undefeated pound for pound king will make the leap to junior middleweight to take on WBA titlist Israil Madrimov at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium on August
Posted on 04/24/2024 By: Sean Crose Saudi Arabia’s Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority, Turki Alalshikh has become a top figure in the world of professional boxing over the past few years. Now the Saudi authority is introducing himself to the world of US boxing by promoting the August 3’d
Posted on 04/25/2024 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney took to Instagram Wednesday to declare he wants another fight with Ryan Garcia – just under different circumstances than the ones he found himself in last Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. For, although he had been heavily favored walking in, Haney ended up being soundly beaten
Posted on 04/26/2024 By: Sean Crose “FYI I don’t wait on no one,” Tim Tszyu tweeted this week. “I create my own destiny. Get the job done this weekend @VergilOrtiz and we make a fight for the ages.” Get the job done indeed. Should Vergil Ortiz succeed in defeating Thomas Dulorme this Saturday night when
Posted on 04/27/2024 By: Sean Crose The red hot 20-0 junior middleweight Virgil Ortiz Jr stepped into the ring on Saturday night to take on the 26-6-1 veteran Thomas Dulorme knowing a major fight against the popular Tim Tszyu was at stake. Should he defeat Dulorme, Ortiz would face Tszyu on the August 3’d Terence
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