Feature • Premium Boxing: WBC Heavyweight Title: Closeup of fight promoter Don King with cigar and miniature flags in locker room before Deontay Wilder vs Eric Molina title bout at Bartow Arena. Birmingham, AL 6/13/2015 CREDIT: Kevin Liles (Photo by Kevin Liles /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images/Getty Images) (Set Number: X159703 TK1 ) The end
Month: July 2022
The mindset is different, but the emotion is still there. For a long time, Michael Conlan was hurt following his devastating if thrilling knockout defeat to Leigh Wood in the only loss of his career so far. That was in March, and he subsequently licked his wounds. The 30-year-old sulked and moped, went to Portugal
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(April 30, 2016) Jorge Lara and Fernando Montiel meet in Carson, CA at the StubHub Center on April 30th, 2016 in a bout scheduled for 10 rounds. Lara is the less experienced fighter but did not fight like it. Lara hit Montiel with a knockdown in the first 20 seconds of round 1. Montiel was
The WBC scheduled two purse bids today: one between super lightweight champion Josh Taylor and mandatory challenger Jose Zepeda, which was rendered moot after Taylor elected to ditch his belt at the last minute, and another for a final eliminator between top-ranked light heavyweights Callum Smith and Mathieu Bauderlique. There were no surprises in that
The World Boxing Council (WBC) granted the representatives of boxers Julio Cesar Martinez and McWilliams Arroyo additional time to negotiate the details so that a fight between them can take place. Arroyo filed a petition with the WBC to declare him a proprietary 112-pound champion because Martinez pulled out of their bout that was scheduled
Posted on 07/01/2022 By: Sean Crose The young man in the video stands in the sunlight signing autographs, a crowd of people clustered before him. He is polite, this young man, polite, good looking and rather gracious, never once losing patience with his fans. Finally, a woman, likely a PR agent, steps forward and firmly
12:42 PM ET Junior welterweight Josh Taylor has opted to give up one of his titles. The unified 140-pound champion relinquished his WBC belt ahead of a scheduled purse bid on Friday afternoon for a matchup against Jose Zepeda, the WBC announced. The sanctioning body had ordered the purse bid for the fight between two
David Adeleye is making a name for himself in the world of heavyweight boxing and is tipped to become one of boxing’s future stars. At just 25 years old, Adeleye sees himself challenging the likes of AJ, Fury, and Usyk in the next 2-3 years. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow
Feature Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua at a press conference to announce their August 20 rematch in Saudi Arabia (Picture: Mark Robinson) After everything that has happened to his country this year, Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk is even less concerned about the threat of Anthony Joshua in August, writes Declan Taylor OLEKSANDR USYK sits in a
Adam Kownacki was a rising star for the PBC brand just two years ago, coming off of an exciting win over Chris Arreola in a heavyweight slugfest, and rumored to be right on track for a shot at the WBC heavyweight title. But two straight stoppage losses to Robert Helenius have derailed the Kownacki (20-2,
NEW YORK–Some of the greatest opponents Gennadiy Golovkin has ever faced have never stepped foot inside a professional boxing ring. Which is to say that the Kazakh puncher and current unified middleweight titlist does not exactly consider Alvarez the toughest adversary he has ever gone up against, despite the fact that his lone career loss
Bunce Diaries • Premium Eddie Avoth celebrating his victory against John ‘Young’ McCormack in 1969. (C. Maher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) British underdogs jetting off to bizarre locations in August is nothing new, writes Steve Bunce WE ARE off to Saudi Arabia during a month when the old boxing game would close in Britain. There was
News Any hope that Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jnr will fight in the near future was today strengthened by the news that Smith will now fight on Sky Sports IT could end up being the latest installment in the long-running series of ‘Fights Too Good and Obvious to Actually Happen’ but today there is
Letters • Premium This week’s panellists are asked to pick a winner in the October light-heavyweight fight between Artur Beterbiev and Anthony Yarde Maxi Hughes (Lightweight contender) I give Yarde a puncher’s chance. After studying Beterbiev, it’s clear there’s a lot more to his game than destructive power. He also has great balance, timing, and
Feature • Premium Joe Joyce (Harry How/Getty Images) Joe Joyce is no stranger to travelling around the world to seek out the best possible training. Here, in Las Vegas, while working with Cuban Ismael Salas, he speaks with Declan Taylor THE temperate is in the 40s by the time Joe Joyce emerges through the sliding
Adam Kownacki is not abandoning his dream of becoming the first Polish heavyweight to win a major title. However, he fully acknowledges that he has entered sink or swim territory heading into his next fight. The Brooklyn-based slugger returns to the ring following back-to-back stoppage losses to Robert Helenius. Kownacki begins the comeback tour against
1:57 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Social media influencer Logan Paul has signed a deal with WWE, the organization announced on Thursday. The pact is a multi-event deal, sources told ESPN, that will push into 2023. Paul will compete in the ring at multiple WWE premium live events (formerly called pay-per-views by the company) and will