Month: February 2022

12:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the nation seeks to defend itself against an invasion from Russia that began Thursday. The Olympic gold medalist is the latest boxer to take up arms in Ukraine. Usyk’s longtime friend, Vasiliy Lomachenko, also joined a territorial
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Posted on 02/28/2022 By: Hans Themistode For the most part, Shakur Stevenson’s career has been on cruise control. The former 2016 Olympic silver medalist and two-division world titlist has made quick and easy work of his 17 career opponents. Yet, even with the relative ease in which he’s picked up his victories, the 24-year-old knows
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Demetrius Andrade will set his sights on a third weight division. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Providence’s Andrade has formally accepted the terms surrounding his ordered WBO interim super middleweight title fight with England’s Zach Parker. The decision will mean a road trip for Andrade, a two-division and reigning WBO middleweight titlist who will fight outside
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Our own Jamal Niaz spoke with UFC superstar Conor McGregor about his timeline for his UFC return, possible boxing run, Paddy Pimblett and more! Subscribe for updates – http://goo.gl/meA2GB Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/VDYVMP Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondsoutlive SecondsOut is a world leader in boxing entertainment since 1999. Part of the Knockout TV YouTube MCN –
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Issue • Opinion • Premium Lawrence Lustig The manner in which Sky Sports covered a most controversial decision in Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall is to be admired, writes George Gigney Sometimes, there are no words. Sometimes, boxing manages something to produce something so unsettling, so inherently wrong, that there are no words to properly
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Former Wilder foe and heavyweight southpaw Luis “The Real King Kong” Ortiz returned to STAPLES​ Center​ for a second consecutive victory with a resounding 10th-round TKO against Travis “My Time” Kauffman. #LuisOrtiz #OrtizKauffman #TravisKauffman Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: http://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
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6:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko, ESPN’s No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the country attempts to fend off an invasion from Russia. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is shown armed in military fatigues in an image posted to his Facebook page on Sunday. The 34-year-old traveled
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Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose Boxing returned to the Showtime airwaves Saturday night as the cable network aired a card live from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas featuring Chris “PrimeTime” Colbert versus Hector Garcia. First, however, the IBF super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas, 33-1-2,  took on the undefeated, 13-0, Fernando Martinez in a scheduled
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Late replacement Hector Garcia performed like the world champion he was substituting for on Saturday night, battering and dropping the highly touted Chris Colbert to earn a unanimous decision win in a 12-round WBA super featherweight world title eliminator that headlined a thrilling Showtime tripleheader from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Garcia
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Earlier this week, we shared the news that former heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko committed to defend their country against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has joined the fight as well. A Facebook post from Lomachenko said: The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed. In the
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10:39 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The four governing organizations responsible for overseeing boxing title matchups around the world — the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO — announced in a joint statement that they won’t sanction any such bouts in Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine. Currently, two Russians hold major titles. Dmitry Bivol, ESPN’s
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