Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, revealed that his unbeaten boxer is being tested in camp by up and coming prospect Jared Anderson. Fury is preparing for his scheduled trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder, which takes place on July 24 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Arum is pushing
Posted on 07/01/2021 By: Hans Themistode When former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley first revealed that he would be taking on Jake Paul, many believed that he would simply become another victim of the social media star. Whether anyone likes it or not, Paul is currently riding a three-fight win streak in the boxing ring
6:27 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Triller, the organization that delivered the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones Jr. exhibition and the Jake Paul-Ben Askren event, has agreed to a one-year deal with the Madison Square Garden company to bring a monthly, Tuesday night boxing series to New York’s Hulu Theater at MSG, Triller co-founder Ryan Kavanaugh tells ESPN.
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz Looks like this smoke might actually mean there’s fire. Eddie Hearn tells Mike Coppinger that Regis Prograis and Mikey Garcia “are in advanced talks for a fall clash at 140 pounds,” which would take place on American soil and stream on DAZN. Both men spoke to ESPN about the
Unbeaten Interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Chris “Primetime” Colbert and hard-hitting contender Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar faced off Thursday at the final press conference before they meet in the main event of action live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, July 3 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif. (photos
Posted on 07/01/2021 By: Sean Crose Boxing is a sport that’s known for having it’s share of bad blood. You can go on YouTube and watch a video from over a century ago where former 1800s star John L Sullivan is clearly unhappy shaking the hand of James Corbett, the man who had won the
Find out why professionals are using BoxBandz 4:08 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former four-division champion Mikey Garcia and ex-titleholder Regis Prograis are in advanced talks for a fall clash at 140 pounds, both fighters and promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN. If a deal is completed, the bout would land in the U.S., and be streamed on
#ColbertNyambayar Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-070321 Undefeated Interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Chris “Primetime” Colbert faces hard-hitting contender Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar on Saturday, July 3, headlining the live SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, Calif., in a Premier Boxing Champions event. The SHOWTIME telecast begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m.
Zach Parker is the No. 1 super-middleweight contender with the WBO, which means he could fight for Canelo’s world title, but the popular Derby man understands that a bout with the pound-for-pound star isn’t imminent. He explains why a future fight though isn’t actually all that far fetched, even if the Mexican may not have
Kazakhstan sensation Tursynbay Kulakhmet will now go up against experienced Aleksei Evchenko when MTK Fight Night heads to Almaty this month. The event takes place on Saturday 10 July, and will be broadcast on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank in the US, on SportTimeKZ in Kazakhstan, and on IFL TV for the rest of
Posted on 06/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode It was somewhat ironic to have both Gervonta Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko compete on the same night. The pair have had a long feud with one another but have yet to settle their differences in the ring. This past weekend at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta Georgia, Davis
7:45 AM ET Former pound-for-pound king and lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko returned to the ring for the first time since losing to Teofimo Lopez in October 2020 and reminded the boxing world that he’s still one of the best fighters in the sport. Lomachenko scored a dominant ninth-round TKO victory over Masayoshi Nakatani on June
It’s abundantly clear that the big undisputed heavyweight title unification between Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury won’t be coming off next — that much we know — but Top Rank promoter Bob Arum tells Sky Sports that the fight could still happen in the future as he says there were absolutely no breakdowns in those
Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes a potential unification with IBF, WBA, WBO, IBO champion Anthony Joshua could actually happen in the UK. The fight was in play to take place on August 14th in Saudi Arabia – but then an arbitrator ordered Fury to honor a rematch
Posted on 06/30/2021 By: Andrew Johnson David Morrell (5-0, 4 KOs) flattened Mario Cázares (12-1, 5 KOs) in front of a standing-room-only crowd in his adopted hometown of Minneapolis on Sunday night. The underdogs had fared well on the evening’s undercard, but Cázares’ hopes of an upset were erased by two straight left hands from
A possible fight between Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Ryan Garcia may not be as dead an issue as you’d think. Garcia (21-0, 18 KO) and Davis (25-0, 24 KO) have had some back-and-forth with one another, not even terribly smack talk-y or anything, really. In January, days after Garcia beat Luke Campbell, the two agreed
Two weeks ago in Guadalajara, Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. stepped in the ring for the final time when he took part in a four round exhibition clash with Hector Camacho Jr. Chavez Sr. is widely regarded as the greatest Mexican fighter of all time. Sitting at ringside for that event was four division world champion
Posted on 06/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode If you were to ask long-time trainer Robert Garcia where Gervonta “Tank” Davis ranks at 135 pounds just last year, there’s a good chance Garcia would have placed him roughly third or fourth behind Teofimo Lopez and Vasiliy Lomachenko. Garcia’s thoughts were never meant to be a slight to