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
Month: February 2022
Rankings go up on Mondays. Ranked fights this week: Junior Welterweight: (4) Jose Ramirez vs (6) Jose Pedraza, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (9) Joet Gonzalez vs Jeo Santisima, Mar. 4 Featherweight: (3) Mauricio Lara vs Emilio Sanchez, Mar. 5 Junior Bantamweight: (4) Chocolatito Gonzalez vs Julio Cesar Martinez, Mar. 5 Flyweight: (1) Julio Cesar Martinez vs
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
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
Issue • Premium • Reports Lawrence Lustig The Josh Taylor vs Jack Catterall result hits both fighters, and British boxing. John Dennen was at the Hydro in Glasgow YOU can’t be perfect every fight. In his 18 previous contests Josh Taylor had been superb. He’d risen quickly as he beat Ivan Baranchyk, Regis Prograis and
Issue • Premium • Reports Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Lawrence Okolie works his way to a unanimous decision victory against Michal Cieslak in the toughest fight of his career so far. Declan Taylor reports from the O2 BENEATH a brand new roof, it was very much back to the old Lawrence Okolie at the O2 Arena
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8:00 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. The result of Saturday’s undisputed junior welterweight championship fight between champion Josh Taylor and challenger Jack Catterall hasn’t sat well with me. The challenger did everything he was supposed to do to win, but the judges handed Taylor a split-decision victory. I watched the fight a second time on
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
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
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose He goes by the nickname of PrimeTime and he’s one of the most closely watched fighters among today’s top crop of young guns. With an undefeated 16-0 record, the 25 year old Brooklyn native is now in position to move on to big things. In fact, he was supposed
Lawrence Okolie didn’t get the knockout and didn’t have the most exciting fight, to put it mildly, but he retained his WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Michal Cieslak in London. Okolie took the cards on scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 117-110. Bad Left Hook had the fight 117-110 for Okolie. It was
(Video by Ryan Burton) – Abner Mares was ringside to watch late replacement Hector Garcia perform 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
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
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
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
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
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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