During this virtual media presser with WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, the titleholder discusses his rapidly approaching Oct. 9 fight date with Deontay Wilder before explaining why all of Wilder’s excuses after his loss will prevent him from making the necessary changes to win in their third meeting. Check out some excerpts from Fury below.
Month: October 2021
Deontay Wilder doesn’t believe that Tyson Fury actually contracted COVID-19 before their third fight was postponed nearly three months ago. Fury assured BoxingScene.com during a recent interview that he indeed tested positive for the coronavirus toward the end of an intense training camp for another WBC heavyweight title fight with Wilder that was supposed to
Posted on 09/29/2021 By: Hans Themistode An epiphany of sorts has just swept over Ryan Garcia. After taking a long, hard look at his fellow peers, the 23-year-old lightweight contender has come to one conclusion. “I will become the best boxer of this era,” said Garcia on his social media page. “I will call it
Teofimo Lopez’s fight with George Kambosos Jr may still happen and may not, but either way, Triller Fight Club will not be promoting the event. Yahoo! Sports reports that Triller have pulled the plug, meaning this fight will not be happening on Oct. 16. The IBF still have to rule whether or not Kambosos, their
News David Avanesyan retains his European welterweight title with dominant showing at Wembley Arena DAVID AVANESYAN retained his European welterweight title with a second round stoppage of Liam Taylor at Wembley Arena. Referee Mark Lyson stepped in at 2-18 of the session as the impressive Avanesyan – ready for another raid at world level –
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Dillian Whyte’s willingness to fight Otto Wallin wasn’t surprising to Wallin’s promoter. Whyte has long demonstrated that he’ll fight heavyweights others might view as high-risk, low-reward propositions. Dmitriy Salita still thinks Whyte made a mistake by choosing the Swedish southpaw as his opponent for a 12-round main event October 30 at O2 Arena in London.
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Posted on 10/02/2021 By: Sean Crose Say it ain’t so! Canelo Alvarez, perhaps the most popular and serious minded practitioner in all of boxing appears to be willing to some day face social media star turned boxer Jake Paul – maybe. “We don’t know,” he told FightHype, “you can never say never.” Before every serious
After an official determination of fights being fixed in a scheme aided by both referees and judges during the 2016 Olympics held in Rio de Janiero, AIBA president Umar Kremlev issues a statement on the findings, saying his organization is committed to reforming its policies in order to ensure the integrity of its sporting contests.
News Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Chris Eubank Jr’s bout falls off the bill, but the show still goes on CHRIS EUBANK JR’S fight tonight has been called off. It was announced on the day of the contest at the SSE Arena in Wembley that his opponent Anatoli Muratov had failed a medical. It’s another unfortunate twist
Amateur Christian Petersen/Getty Images Richard McLaren delivers a shocking, but not surprising, report into corruption at AIBA before and during the Olympic boxing tournament at Rio 2016 CORRUPTION and manipulation marred the boxing tournament at Rio, as well the events leading up to that competition. We knew something was rotten in AIBA but the first
Chris Eubank Jr says that Roy Jones Jr. is the first trainer who has taught him to think in the ring, rather than just doing things on instinct. Eubank has his second fight with Jones in his corner on Saturday at Wembley when he faces Germany’s Anatoli Muratov. They first teamed up during the pandemic,
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose Anyone paying attention to the Olympic Boxing scandal now rocking the sport’s world can tell that the sport of amateur boxing is in trouble – and has been for a long time. Yet there are those who are quite unhappy with professional boxing, as well. Fight cancellations, Twitter feuds,
In a conversation with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, boxing analyst Timothy Bradley gives his take on the undisputed super middleweight unification between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. Bradley isn’t giving much of a chance to Plant in this fight, and says what we’ve been hearing all over the boxing world — that David
History • Issue • Premium Frankie Lucas and Carl Speare had an amateur rivalry with zest and needle ON May 4 1973 Frankie Lucas of the Croydon-based Sir Philip Game ABC beat Carl Speare of Liverpool in that year’s ABA middleweight final at the Empire Pool, Wembley. This was Lucas’ second straight ABA championship victory,
The president of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Mauricio Sulaiman, have high praise to the recent victory Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk, who last Saturday night, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, captured four heavyweight belts with a twelve round unanimous decision over Anthony Joshua. Usyk walked away with the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO world titles. A few days
Sep 29, 2021 Tyson Fury will defend the WBC heavyweight championship against Deontay Wilder on Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Their third fight is almost three years in the making, and along the way, their teams, other fighters and the legal system have all played a part.