The best bits as Tyson Fury speaks to the media about Dillian Whyte, the situation in Ukraine with the Klitschkos, Lomachenko and Usyk, and fighting at Wembley. Watch #FuryWhyte on BT Sport Box Office on Saturday, April 23rd. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡︠http://twitter.com/btsportboxing
Month: March 2022
Three months after COVID restrictions in Japan forced a postponement, we may finally have a new date for the middleweight unification between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports the fight will happen in Saitama, Japan on April 9th. Sources: The Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata middleweight title unification is set for April 9 in
9:41 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryota Murata is all that stands in the way of a third fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin. And now, there’s finally a date for the middleweight title unification between Golovkin and Murata. They’ll meet April 9 at Saitama Arena in Saitama, Japan, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. GGG-Murata
Canelo Alvarez and Dmitry Bivol expect to meet May 7 regardless of whether they fight for Bivol’s WBA light heavyweight title. BoxingScene.com learned Tuesday night that the WBA’s public stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will not impact the status of the card headlined by Mexico’s Alvarez and Russia’s Bivol. The WBA, along with the
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Hans Themistode There was a bitter look of disappointment plastered across the face of Gennadiy Golovkin. The IBF middleweight titlist and future Hall of Famer had long been hoping to share the ring with fellow middleweight belt holder, Ryota Murata. The two were originally scheduled to face off on December 29th,
One day after the WBA announced a series of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian fighters, its fellow alphabet organizations released their own restrictions, namely a resolution to “not certify any championship fights involving boxers from Russia and Belarus.” The announcement is desperately short on specifics, such as whether fighters originally from those countries but now
3:40 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury found himself in a familiar role on Tuesday in London. The heavyweight champion carried the promotion ahead of his trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder last year, as the challenger refused to answer questions from the media at the kick-off news conference. And now, for the second consecutive bout,
Former IBF super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas is ready to move up in weight. After being at 115-pounds for nearly six years, Ancajas is heading up to the bantamweight limit of 118. Last Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Ancajas took plenty of punishment in a twelve round unanimous decision loss to Fernando
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Hans Themistode Jermall Charlo was closer than ever to landing a mega showdown against Canelo Alvarez. The Houstonian power puncher was on the front end of a two-fight deal presented to Alvarez from PBC’s Al Haymon, the promotional banner in which Charlo fights under, along with a second showdown against David
While the WBO has yet to rule on the status of Brian Castano vs. Jermell Charlo 2, we now know where the rest of the card is headed. Twitter user Deuce reports, and Keith Idec and Jake Donovan confirm, that Tim Tszyu vs. Terrell Gausha will now headline its own tripleheader a week later on
6:29 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Josh Taylor escaped defeat and kept hold of his four world super lightweight titles thanks to a controversial split points decision victory over Jack
History • Issue • Premium Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Board’s 1968 decision to add new weight classes did not work out well, writes Miles Templeton AT the Annual General Meeting of the British Boxing Board of Control on May 24, 1967, it was decided to introduce two new weight classes to British professional boxing.
Video James Chance/Getty Images Tyson Fury will fight Dillian Whyte at Wembley stadium on April 23. Watch the announcement press conference live DILLIAN WHYTE might be a no show at today’s press conference, but the fight with Tyson Fury will go ahead on April 23 at Wembley stadium. Watch below: [embedded content]
Boxers Warren Little/Getty Images Jordan Flynn promises that his time will come When and why you started boxing:I always loved fighting when I was younger. I started karate when I was six and I started boxing when I was eight, then I had my first fight at 11 and stuck at it ever since then.
Unbeaten super lightweight contender Richardson Hitchins (13-0, 5 KOs) won a unanimous decision over Malik Hawkins (18-2, 11 KOs) after eight rounds. The judges’ scores were 100-90, 97-93 and 96-94. “My strategy was to box him and make it easy,†said Hitchins. “I knew he was strong, but I hurt him in the fight. I
Tim Tszyu and Terrell Gausha have been elevated to a “Showtime Championship Boxing” main event. Their junior middleweight match initially was supposed to be the co-feature before the Brian Castano-Jermell Charlo rematch March 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Once Castano suffered a slight tear to his right biceps while training, their second 154-pound
Posted on 02/28/2022 By: Sean Crose Former multi divisional titlist and Ukrainian citizen Vasyl Lomachenko has returned to his homeland to join in the nation’s fight against the Russian military invasion which began last week. According to TMZ, the 34 year old fighter, widely regarded as one of the best on earth, “reportedly joined a
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