Posted on 03/15/2021 By: Sean Crose “I was the only person close to him until the last minute,” Kay Hagler, widow of middleweight great Marvelous Marvin Hagler posted on Monday, “and I am the only person that know how things went not even his (Hagler’s) family know all the details and I do NOT accept
7:49 AM ET Claressa Shields, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and now two-division undisputed champion, is ESPN’s new No. 1 women’s pound-for-pound fighter. Shields dominated Marie-Eve Dicaire in a 10-round unanimous decision victory to unify all four major junior middleweight belts on March 6. Shields had already collected all four middleweight world titles with a
Last week’s Big Question was on the Estrada-Chocolatito 2 fight, just a simple “who wins?” thrown out for everyone. Percentage wise, it was basically dead even. Estrada won the poll by a total of four votes. He did win the fight (full highlights), but personally, I think myself, every other Chocolatito voter, and my staff
Isaac Cruz improves to 21-1-1 (15 KOs) following his unanimous decision victory over Matias Romero after 12 action-packed rounds in their WBA Lightweight Title Eliminator bout, live from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on March 13, 2021. This fight was broadcast on SHOWTIME as part of the Premier Boxing Champions series. #CruzRomero #Highlights SIGN
Liam Williams believes he is in for the fight of his life when he takes on Demetrius Andrade for the WBO world title, in America, on April 17. Williams has been biding his time for his shot, and has been goaded by rival Chris Eubank Jr in the interim, but he is now preparing for
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is already working on several game plans to overcome WBC champion Tyson Fury, according to trainer Joby Clayton. Clayton works with Joshua’s head trainer, Rob McCracken. While the date and location have yet to be finalized, Joshua and Fury have signed a two-fight contract. Both fights are expected
Posted on 03/15/2021 By: Hans Themistode Despite Andre Ward hanging up his boxing gloves more than three years ago, fans have continued to hope and pray that he’ll wipe the dust off his boxing trunks and step into the ring one more time. But while Ward officially retired after defeating Sergey Kovalev for the second
5:42 PM ET The WBA announced on Sunday they are temporarily suspending judge Carlos Sucre, pending an evaluation, after his outlier scorecard for Saturday’s junior bantamweight world title unification fight between Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Sucre scored the fight 117-111 for Estrada, who won the fight by split decision. Jesse Reyes scored
Marvin Hagler was a true fighting man. Marvelous Marvin defined toughness, incited violence and encouraged war inside the ring, so much so that the former middleweight giant would have looked down at the American Airlines Center this weekend with a mischievous snarl across his face. Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman Gonzalez delivered what was expected.
Canelo Alvarez and Eddie Hearn have been going steady in their fighter-promoter relationship ever since the boxing superstar freed himself from his Golden Boy Promotions contract in November. Although Alvarez has since obtained his own promotional license, the sport’s top pound-for-pound pugilist is open to the idea of forming a power pairing and moving forward
Posted on 03/15/2021 By: Hans Themistode Roman Gonzalez didn’t want to sound like a sore loser immediately after. The future Hall of Famer respects the judge’s decision to hand the victory to Juan Francisco Estrada this past weekend but he vehemently disagrees with the result. Both Estrada and Gonzalez battled it out at the American
11:05 AM ET The long-rumored, long-discussed clash of British heavyweights is finally signed, with Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua set to clash for all four world titles and the crown of undisputed champion. It’s never happened in the four-belt era, and the last person to be called the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was
Top Rank is officially set to hit Kissimmee, Florida on April 24th with Emanuel Navarrete’s first featherweight title defense and more than half a dozen promising Puerto Ricans in tow, JUST ANNOUNCED – A vs. Featherweight title clash – A rising Super Middleweight monster with a historic KO1 streak on the line – 6 rising
Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and all of their representatives have finally signed off on a two-fight deal. ESPN’s Mark Kriegel reported Monday morning that all parties have signed a provision of services agreement for their two heavyweight title unification fights. Eddie Hearn, Joshua’s promoter, and Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, have repeatedly told BoxingScene.com and other
Posted on 03/14/2021 Shannon Courtenay will face Ebanie Bridges for the vacant WBA Bantamweight World Title at a venue to be confirmed on Saturday April 10, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories. Courtenay (6-1, 3 KOs), who stopped Dorota Norek in seven rounds on the Saunders vs. Murray undercard
10:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has been finally signed. “We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,” said Eddie Hearn, managing director of
WBA, WBC and IBF Unified World Super Welterweight Champion Jermell “Iron Man” Charlo joins The PBC Podcast this week to discuss his goals for 2021 and beyond. Plus, we look ahead to Saturday night’s PBC on SHOWTIME triple-header, examine five historic fights with a twist and more! For show notes and more info, click here:
Dominic Ingle and Liam Williams allowed BT Sport to see how ‘The Machine’ is preparing for his world title bout with Demetrius Andrade, as we got a brief glimpse of his sparring in Sheffield. 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