Reformed street icon, Freeway Rick Ross, is excited to enter the world of boxing as an adviser. Ross has signed five prize fighters to his company Team Freeway Boxing. Undefeated prospects Nafear Charles, VeShawn Champion, Erick Kedar Gianous, and Alvin Varmall Jr., who has one loss, along with former contender Anthony Peterson, is the team
Month: January 2022
We’re still in a bit of the lull period for boxing following the holiday season, and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is clearly in good spirits. Fury is most recently coming off a conclusive stoppage win over Deontay Wilder last October to finalize their epic trilogy, and while Fury has been linked to potential fights
Posted on 01/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode Teofimo Lopez had it all figured out. The 24-year-old made his doubters eat their words when he dethroned Vasiliy Lomachenko in October of 2020 to add the Ukrainian’s WBO, WBA, and WBC “Franchise” lightweight titles to his IBF crown. Although many have questioned whether or not Lopez was actually
Promoter Ben Shalom of BOXXER, who works with heavyweight contender Hughie Fury, believes a fight with Derek Chisora is now more likely to happen. Last month, Chisora lost a twelve round unanimous decision in his rematch with former WBO world champion Joseph Parker. Chisora took a lot of punishment in the fight and was dropped
Posted on 01/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode It simply wasn’t the night Maurice Hooker was hoping for. With the 32-year-old looking to make a big splash during his welterweight debut, Hooker attempted to halt the hype train of rising contender Vergil Ortiz Jr. The two battled it out in front of a mostly pro-Ortiz crowd in
Top Rank’s January 29th Robson Conceicao vs. Xavier Martinez show has acquired a very interesting co-main event, which sees rising young lightweights Rene Tellez Giron and Luis Melendez collide in a Mexico vs. Puerto Rico showdown. Nico Ali Walsh and Jermiah Milton will be in action as well. The 22-year-old Giron (16-1, 10 KO), whose
Opinion Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions We ask the Boxing News panel what they’d say their highlight of 2021 has been Kalle SauerlandPromoterThat night between Wilder and Fury. A fight that makes any Rocky film look dull. Those are fights that get the mainstream into our sport and what we all love to watch. That’s not
Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Matt Christie on the warnings, lessons and hopes for the sport of boxing THE infrastructure of boxing, or lack of, can drive us to the edge of despair on a daily basis. The inconsistent rules, the unfathomable officiating decisions, the tawdry belts, the nonsensical rankings and
6:34 PM ET Another undisputed title fight is coming to women’s boxing. Matchroom Boxing announced on Wednesday it has signed both WBC and WBO super middleweight champion Franchòn Crews-Dezurn and IBF and WBA champion Elin Cederroos to contracts and will have them fight for the undisputed title this spring. “I’ve been ready for this fight
Former 140-pound world champion Mario “El Azteca” Barrios and PBC Vice President Tim Smith are this week’s guests. Barrios discusses what promises to be anexplosive showdown versus Keith Thurman when they square off Saturday, February 5, in the main event of a FOX Sports pay-per-view, live from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Smith looks
Demetrius Andrade remains on the hook for a mandatory title defense. A last-ditch effort to secure an alternative option for Providence’s Andrade proved futile, as the unbeaten WBO middleweight title is still required to next face top contender Janibek Alimkhanuly. The sanctioning body previously called for a purse bid hearing which is scheduled for January
Posted on 01/05/2022 By: Hans Themistode After spending countless years chasing his world title dreams, Gabriel Rosado believes he’s closer than ever before to checking it off his boxing bucket list. At the tail end of 2020, Rosado was steadfast in his belief that he was given a raw deal. Just a few days after
After a breakout 2021 that saw him win and defend flyweight gold, Sunny Edwards claims that a blockbuster unification clash with WBC titlist Julio Cesar Martinez is “close to getting made.” Been told the Martinez fight is close to getting made, I know Ed, Edd and Eddy never wanted anything to do with this fight
Franchon Crews-Dezurn and Elin Cederroos have signed promotional deals with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom, and the Super Middleweight rulers will meet for the undisputed title in the spring. WBC and WBO champion Crews-Dezurn (7-1 2 KOs) officially defends her straps for the first time, after the first defense of her WBO and second of the
Posted on 01/04/2022 By: Hans Themistode Stephen Fulton is sick and tired of not getting the respect he believes he truly deserves. The 27-year-old Philadelphia native registered his best stretch yet as a professional. In the first month of 2021, Fulton dethroned former WBO super bantamweight champion, Angelo Leo. Ten months later, Fulton would add
7:53 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN We kick off 2022 waiting and wishing for the marquee fights — the ones that can make boxing the focal point of the sports world, if only for a day, and the kind of fights that were in short supply in 2021. The anticipated undisputed heavyweight championship bout between Tyson
Luis Ortiz had to climb off the deck twice this past weekend before he was able to put Charles Martin away, and fresh off of that win promoter Kalle Sauerland is already looking to set up a bout against his man, Filip Hrgovic, telling Sky Sports that he’s just waiting for the IBF to start
Bolton star Amir Khan is training hard in camp with new coach Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre, who works with several boxers including WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford. Khan is going to face career rival Kell Brook in a grudge match of former world champions at the AO Arena in Manchester. The fight will take place on February
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