Willy Hutchinson is already being tipped to be one of the best boxers of his generation. We went to the Ingle Gym, in Sheffield, to find out more about the super-middleweight, rated so highly by Dominic Ingle, Shelly Finkel and Frank Warren to name a few. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing
Undefeated Australian standout Liam ‘The Mechanic’ Callanan has moved to 11-0 in the pro ranks. The 25-year-old Aussie returned Friday night at the Croatian Sports Complex in Australia’s Gold Coast and tuned up Joneel Lal with brutal first round knockout of the night. Liam opened up about training, the fight and the future. “I am
Posted on 03/18/2021 By: Sean Crose The Puerto Rico Olympic Training Center hosted Ring City USA’s most recent card on Wednesday night. The broadcast was aired live on the NBC Sports Network. Things started off with former world title challenger Israel Gonzalez, 26-4 facing off against the 21-1-2 Jose Martinez in a scheduled 10 round
Karim Guerfi defends his European bantamweight title against top prospect Lee McGregor in today’s MTK Global main event, with the show streaming live at 3 pm ET on ESPN+. Guerfi should be able to tell us more about how good McGregor is, as he’s a very solid European-level fighter, not a world contender really, but
Maurice Hooker clearly could’ve taken a safer fight in his debut as a full-fledged welterweight. The former WBO junior welterweight champion ultimately determined that upsetting a heavily hyped contender like Vergil Ortiz Jr. would do much more for his career than beating a lesser fighter. Hooker recognizes that this fight is very risky, yet the
Posted on 03/18/2021 Krzysztof Glowacki says there are weaknesses in Lawrence Okolie’s game and has promised to take ‘his’ WBO Cruiserweight World Title back home with him to Poland after he beats the Hackney contender at The SSE Arena, Wembley this Saturday, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories. Glowacki (31-2,
6:00 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Lawrence Okolie’s first world title fight on Saturday comes as part of a busy month for the cruiserweight boxer, whose forthcoming book follows the
Ring City USA is back tonight from Salinas, Puerto Rico, featuring a renewal of the Mexico vs Puerto Rico rivalry in the 10-round lightweight main event, as Alberto Machado faces Angel Fierro. Fights start at 6:30 pm ET streaming for free on Twitch (which is also how international viewers can watch the full card), and
If there was anything more frustrating than the manner in which Joe Ward suffered a loss in his pro debut it’s the amount of time he was forced to sit on that result. A fluke knee injury forced Ward to concede early in the second round of his Oct. 2019 bout with Turlock, California’s Marco
Posted on 03/18/2021 By: Sean Crose The ads for the pay per view event were incredible, even by today’s standards. There was Mike Tyson, narrating in a ponderous voice how dangerous Donovan “Razor” Ruddock was. This was accompanied by slow motion footage of Ruddock knocking former heavyweight titlist Michael Dokes out with a single shot.
9:18 AM ET Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Maurice Hooker grew up roughly 15 minutes from each other in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This weekend, they will continue to pursue the same dream they’ve lived for most of their lives, as they fight one another in a high-stakes boxing clash. But this night will be different,
Two-time world welterweight champion Shawn Porter and unbeaten two-time super middleweight champ David Benavidez are this week’s guests on The PBC Podcast. Porter discusses his upcoming role as boxing analyst for the Olympics, the challenges of running a podcast and, of course, when he’ll return to the ring and who he’s targeting. Benavidez recaps his
Adam Catterall catches up with Frank Warren to get the latest on Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua following recent announcements. Warren discusses Eddie Hearn, potential sites, dates and Fury’s comments over the last week. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport
Deontay Wilder hasn’t fought since his Feb. 2020 loss to Tyson Fury and doesn’t seem to have any plans to, at least not that anyone knows publicly. One idea would be for ex-WBC titlist Wilder to fight someone in an official eliminator for that sanctioning body, and Dillian Whyte certainly could be a name in
The dream of representing Somalia at this summer’s Olympics is still alive for Ramla Ali, although she still faces an anxious wait to see if she will get the chance to box in Tokyo. Ali has her second professional fight when she takes on Bec Connelly at Wembley on Saturday, but the Vogue cover model
Posted on 03/17/2021 By: Hans Themistode Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson wasn’t kidding around when he said he wanted to return to the ring soon. After ending his decade and a half retirement late last year to take on future Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition matchup, Tyson announced to the
8:39 AM ET After a few eventful days in the boxing world, attention has turned back towards Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua with the announcement that the two heavyweight world titlists have signed a two-fight deal. A few big questions remain, including where and when the first fight will take place. And despite a two-fight
Fresh off her latest win over former unified women’s champion Cecilia Braekhus, Jessica McCaskill talks a bit about what she thought of her performance to retain her belts and what could potentially be next now that there’s no question she’s right up there with her other top female contemporaries. McCaskill on her beating Braekhus convincingly