6:18 PM ET Manny Pacquaio and Errol Spence Jr. made headlines on Friday when they announced one of the biggest fights in recent years. Pacquiao, 62-7-2, 39 KOs), 42, of General Santos City, Philippines, boxing’s only eight-division world champion, will face Spence (27-0, 21 KOs), 31, of Desoto, Texas, the only unified welterweight champion, on
Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor weighed in Friday afternoon, both coming in under the weight limit at 139.6 pounds each. The fight is now officially set, with Jose Ramirez’ WBC and WBO and Josh Taylor’s IBF and WBA belts at stake (Saturday, May 22, 8 pm ET, ESPN and ESPN+). There were no major fireworks
LAS VEGAS – Josh Taylor isn’t the least bit intimidated by boxing an American champion in Las Vegas on Saturday night. The Scottish southpaw doesn’t think he needs to win by knockout, either, even though three American judges were assigned to score his 12-round, 140-pound title unification fight against Jose Ramirez. Taylor expects to dominate
Posted on 05/21/2021 By: Hans Themistode The heavyweight division was slowly evolving from a jumbled mess to a much clearer picture. By all accounts, WBC/Ring Magazine titlist, Tyson Fury, was set to take on unified champion Anthony Joshua this coming Summer. Those plans, of course, were recently derailed as former belt holder Deontay Wilder has
7:41 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Not all championships are created equally. Even in boxing, with the most legitimate belts swimming in an ocean of trinket titles, this is true. A fighter can sometimes stumble into becoming a champion if the matchmaking is good enough or the circumstances are favorable. That’s not the case with
Showtime will be bringing back a glimpse of boxing’s heyday with a four-part documentary series on the legendary rivalry between all-time welterweight greats, Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas ‘The Hitman’ Hearns, and Sugar Ray Leonard. The series will be entitled ‘THE KINGS’ and will debut on Sunday, June 6 at 8 p.m. ET. You
With less than three weeks until Sunday, June 6, when all-time boxing great and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Floyd “Money” Mayweather returns to the ring to take on social media sensation and professional boxer Logan “The Maverick” Paul in an exhibition bout, SHOWTIME and FANMIO have launched digital distribution platforms for pay-per-view
Posted on 05/21/2021 By: Steven Galeano On Saturday night, from Las Vegas, Nevada, boxing fans will be treated to a sure-fire action fight when undefeated super lightweight champions Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor lock horns. In the end, the boxing world will also find out who becomes undisputed world champion, and true number one of
7:33 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN A couple of weeks ago, a once-great champion and a YouTuber held a news conference to announce their “fight” in Miami. The YouTuber’s brother, also a YouTuber, confronted the retired fighter and snatched his baseball cap. “Gotcha hat!” he said, before running away. This was widely interpreted as the work
(May 1, 2021) Sensational unbeaten super welterweight Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora (17-0-1, 12 KOs) won a close-quarters war via fourth-round stoppage over Jorge “El Demonio” Cota (30-5, 27 KOs) in their WBC Super Welterweight Title Eliminator. “I’m extremely grateful to fight in front of the fans tonight,” said Fundora. “It was fun to hear
Heavyweight prospect David Adeleye faces his biggest step-up yet when he takes on Kamil Sokolowski, a former opponent of Dillian Whyte. Adeleye is planning to make a statement as he continues to chase a bout with Nathan Gorman. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing
The third fight between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder looks just about official, though it’s not quite official. ESPN reports that the two sides have agreed to terms for a July 24 fight in Las Vegas, with a venue to be announced. We do know that Top Rank have reserved a date at Allegiant Stadium,
Undefeated Irish ‘Hitman’ Stephen McKenna is lining up British rival Conor Benn in his sights for a mouthwatering England v Ireland showdown. The welterweight ace from County Monaghan has dispatched of all seven of his opponents with cold and clinical efficiency and goes for his eighth target this Saturday (22 May) at the Coventry Skydome
Posted on 05/20/2021 By: Sean Crose “One fight goes bye bye for a while and another fight is taking its place.” So says Bob Arum, Top Rank honcho and promoter of Tyson Fury, in a Thursday interview with iFL TV. Arum is referring Saturday’s fight between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor for the undisputed super
8:39 PM ET After an arbitration ruling that halted the negotiations between Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) and Anthony Joshua, Fury and Deontay Wilder have verbally agreed to terms on a third fight, multiple sources confirmed to ESPN. The fight is tentatively scheduled for July 24, with a site in Las Vegas to be determined,
As WBA titleholder Mario Barrios gets prepared to take on Gervonta Davis next month in Atlanta in a Showtime PPV set for June 26, Barrios showed up to today’s press conference to tell the world that he’ll be well prepared for Davis and isn’t taking him lightly as Davis jumps two weight classes to meet
InThisCornerTV.com is proud to present the entire In Ring Demonstration that Smitty did with Super Middleweight Champ Andre Ward. Normally we don’t release segments from the “IN This Corner” TV show but this was a such a good segment we wanted to make it available in its entirety. We thank Andre who flew in to
LAS VEGAS – Just three days after an arbitrator ordered Tyson Fury to fight Deontay Wilder next, a deal has nearly been finalized for the heavyweight rivals to fight a third time July 24. Promoter Bob Arum informed BoxingScene.com on Thursday that an agreement has been relatively easy to put together because the terms for