WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman believes David Benavidez is content to play the waiting game before getting his opportunity to face Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Benavidez is moving up in weight to face Ukraine’s Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June for a light heavyweight title, having missed out – this time, at least – on the sweepstakes to meet
A heart-to-heart between Ryan Garcia and his trainer Derrick James was, according to Garcia, “key” to his victory over Devin Haney. Despite being the underdog, Garcia, 25, appeared under growing pressure to impress on Saturday night against his long-term rival, and defied all expectations by not only being competitive with Haney but by becoming the
Posted on 04/18/2024 By: Sean Crose While Ryan Garcia has brought a lot of attention to himself in the leadup to Saturday night’s fight with Devin Haney, the WBC junior welterweight champion has largely remained focused at the task at hand. “I put my work in during training camp,” Haney told the media during a
Posted on 04/19/2024 By: Sean Crose Few will likely be surprised. Ryan Garcia, who has been on a strange journey of the mind leading up to tomorrow night’s fight with Devin Haney, has missed weight by over three pounds. While Haney has weighed in at a solid 140 pounds – within the junior welterweight limit
Posted on 04/20/2024 By Sean Crose A scheduled 10 round junior middleweight showdown opened the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia pay per view card Saturday night in Brooklyn. The 22-7-1 Nathaniel Gallimore took on the rising 18-0 Charles Conwell to start things off at the Barclays Center. Both men fought tight in the first as they tried
Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose Super flyweights David Jimenez and John Ramirez battled for the WBA’s interim divisional title Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 13-0 Ramirez opened up by falling to the mat before the 15-1 Jimenez just after the opening bell. Both men then fought to control the range as well
Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose Supermiddleweights Bektemir Melikuziev and Pierre Dibombe engaged in a scheduled 12 rounder Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 22-0-1 Dibombe fought the 13-1 Melikuziev patiently at first, choosing to remain on the outside for most of the opening round. Dibombe, however, had what appeared to be a serious
Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose The 29-0 junior welterweight Arnold Barboza squared off against the 18-1 Sean McComb in the co-main event of Saturday’s Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia card at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The Barboza-McComb match was scheduled for 10 rounds. Southpaw McComb pushed the action in the first. Barboza, on the other hand, remained
Posted on 04/21/2024 By: Sean Crose Saturday night, it all went down. After one of the strangest leadups to a fight in recent memory, the 31-0 Devin Haney and the 24-1 Ryan Garcia finally did battle at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Although Garcia literally didn’t stand a chance of winning Haney’s WBC junior welterweight title (due
With all signs pointing to a rematch between Richard Riakporhe and Chris Billam-Smith, both fighters have been talking about their expectations of an impending rematch. Riakporhe took a split decision win over Billam-Smith back in 2019 and feels even more confident now having a world title on the line this time around. Riakporhe says he’ll
Jake Paul’s July 20th Netflix showdown with Mike Tyson will feature at least one morally defensible boxing match, as MVP announced today that undisputed super lightweight champion Kaie Taylor will rematch rival Amanda Serrano in the co-main event. “This is the rematch the world has wanted to see and I’m delighted that it’s finally happening,”
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia went face-to-face in the typical “our fight’s in New York” photo opportunity press event today, and it wound up with Haney shoving Garcia in the face after some trash talk between the two fighters. Haney and Garcia will fight Saturday night on DAZN PPV
Following today’s festivities, building up this weekend’s PPV main event between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, Haney spoke to boxing media about wanting to secure an emphatic win over his rival. Haney doesn’t believe Garcia has been taking this fight seriously, and expects for that to show itself in the ring as he expects a
In a conversation with Fight Hype, George Kambosos insists he’s fully focused on his upcoming bout against Vasiliy Lomachenko but fields some questions about Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and why he isn’t taking on the best fighters around his weight class. Here’s some of what Kambosos had to say on that subject down below. Kambosos on
Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia were scheduled to throw first pitches on Tuesday at Citi Field, ahead of a game where the New York Mets would host the Pittsburgh Pirates. Chris Mannix reported that Mets officials had concerns after the Empire State Building scuffle earlier in the day, when the two did a photo opp
Deontay Wilder talks about being the ‘captain’ of Matchroom Boxing as he heads into a June 1 showdown with Zhilei Zhang. In particular Wilder says he’s feeling better about working with a group of people who encourage his capacity for homicide inside the ring instead of trying to make him dial back his rhetoric for
Puerto Rican prospect Xander Zayas is all set for his first main event, as Top Rank announced today that the 21-year-old super welterweight will meet former interim champion Patrick Teixeira atop a June 8th ESPN show at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. This marks the third 10-rounder of Zayas’ (18-0, 12 KO) career, though
Boxing’s traditional arenas – in Las Vegas, London, etc. – are now darker more often because of the emergence of major fight cards in Saudi Arabia. And while few live experiences can rival watching a boxing match in person, the payoff of seeing events like the upcoming undisputed heavyweight and light-heavyweight title fights over a
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