The Battle for Mexico is almost here. WBC super featherweight world champion Miguel Berchelt and former featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez stepped on the scale Friday, one day before one of the most highly anticipated all-Mexican showdowns in boxing history. (photos by Mikey Williams) Berchelt is seeking his seventh successful title defense, while Valdez hopes
Posted on 02/19/2021 By: Hans Themistode It isn’t exactly easy finding someone who’s nearly seven feet tall and really knows how to fight. Being wrapped up in a global pandemic doesn’t help either. For heavyweight contender Otto Wallin, that is the precise predicament he found himself in. The heavyweight contender sat back in his palatial
Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez made weight and are set for their main event tomorrow night (Saturday, Feb. 20, 10 pm ET, ESPN and ESPN+), with Berchelt’s WBC junior lightweight title on the line. Berchelt and Valdez both weighed in at the 130-pound limit for the fight, and we’re now officially, fully set, all things
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Afforded an additional seven pounds during fight week, Adrien Broner came in on weight Friday morning for his fight against Jovanie Santiago on Saturday night. Broner stepped on the Mohegan Tribe Department of Regulation’s scale at 146 pounds for their 12-round welterweight bout. Santiago officially weighed 145.2 pounds. Their “Showtime Championship Boxing”
Posted on 02/19/2021 By: Hans Themistode There are a lot of things you can teach a fighter. Speed, agility, defense – even timing. However, no matter how many hours you put in the gym, there are just some things that are innate. “I think you are born with the power,” said WBC super featherweight titlist
7:00 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The seduction of Frank Espinoza — of Simmons Avenue in East LA, an occasional member of the City Terrace gang, son of a welder whose hands had been mangled by arthritis — began when he was a teenager, sometime in the mid-’60s, upon his maiden voyage to the Grand Olympic
Saturday night on Showtime (Feb. 20, 9 pm ET), Adrien Broner will make his return to the ring after 25 months of inactivity, taking on unknown Jovanie Santiago in the 140-pound main event, while Otto Wallin and Dominic Breazeale meet in a heavyweight matchup that keeps the winner in the mix and drops the loser
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? FIGHT UPDATE ? Four-Time World Champion and must-see attraction Adrien “The Problem” Broner will end his two-year hiatus from boxing when he faces Jovanie Santiago in a 12-round headlining super lightweight bout on Saturday, February 20, on Showtime. FIGHT NIGHT DETAILS ?: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-2-20-21 ***************************************************************************** (February 18, 2017) Adrien Broner insisted from the get-go that
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UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Almost five years. That’s how long it has been since Adrien Broner indisputably, impressively won a fight. The only victory Broner has recorded since stopping Ashley Theophane in the ninth round of their April 2016 fight was a 10-round, split-decision win against Adrian Granados in February 2017. One could justifiably argue Granados
Posted on 02/16/2021 By: Sean Crose Undefeated 16-0 welterweight Janelson Figueroa Bocachica will be squaring off against fellow undefeated prospect, Mark Reyes Jr as the highlight of a ShoBox card which will be aired live by Showtime from Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino on Wednesday evening starting at 9PM. The 14-0 Reyes Jr was last in
Adrien Broner’s Saturday night comeback fight on Showtime was supposed to be at a 140-pound limit, but the fight will now have a 147-pound limit, which Showtime announced as a “mutual decision from both fighters.” Broner, who has recently said he had to lose about 35 pounds in a relatively short period of time to
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Oscar Valdez already knows the feeling of having a major title around his waist, having done so at featherweight for three years. It’s the realization of pursuing the title he’s long envisioned since he first began fighting as a youth which raises the emotion level heading into this next adventure. “I’ve
Posted on 02/18/2021 By: Hans Themistode The moment the scale underneath the feet of Joseph Diaz read 133.6 pounds, Tevin Farmer couldn’t stop himself from grinning. With Diaz unable to make the 130 pound limit for his IBF-mandated title defense against Tajikistan Rakhimov this past weekend, the championship he worked so hard to acquire against
With Josh Kelly (10-0-1, 6 KOs) set challenge David Avanesyan (26-3-1, 14 KOs) this Saturday for the European welterweight title on DAZN, Kelly tells RingTV that he’s studied the flaws in Avanesyan’s game and expects to take advantage of them when they meet inside the ring. And Kelly says if Avanesyan takes that personally it
UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Robert Easter Jr. boxed well against Adrian Granados during the first three rounds of their 10-round fight 15 months ago. The former IBF lightweight champion then frustrated his handlers when he completely committed to fighting Granados on the inside. What they didn’t know at that time was that Easter hyperextended his right