Mauricio Sulaiman is willing to send skeptics of his organization an accounting of its finances. The head of the Mexico City-based World Boxing Council, one of the four major sanctioning bodies in boxing, was recently prompted to defend how his company conducts its business. The WBC was started by Sulaiman’s father José in 1963. Specifically,
Month: August 2022
Posted on 08/13/2022 By Sean Crose Xander Zayas, the rising 13-0 junior middleweight, took on the 22-4-0 Elias Espadas in a scheduled 8 rounder Saturday night at Resorts World Las Vegas. The match was the co-main event of Top Rank’s Teofimo Lopez-Pedro Campas card and was broadcast live by ESPN. The 19-0 Zayas got to work
9:07 AM ET Tyson Fury has vacated his Ring heavyweight title after he announced his retirement from boxing on Friday, Fury told The Ring Magazine. Fury, 34, tempted a comeback on Tuesday, saying he’d return from retirement to fight Derek Chisora. However, three days later, Fury announced in a social media post that he had
You may not be buying Tyson Fury’s handful of retirement announcements this year, the most recent of which came late last week after reports of a potential fight with Derek Chisora in December, and you wouldn’t be alone. I don’t buy it. Bob Arum doesn’t buy it. Most people probably don’t. The Ring have accepted
Upset-minded lightweight power puncher, Cristian Baez (18-1, 17 KOs), who is scheduled to battle Ruben “Ace” Torres (18-0, 15 KOs), in the 10-round main event on Thompson Boxing’s “Path To Glory” show August 20, 2022, is eager to get back in the ring after over a two-year layoff. Tickets priced at $50, $75, $100 &
Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Former WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist Teofimo Lopez returned to the ring on Saturday night – this time as a junior welterweight – to take on the little known Pedro Campa in a scheduled 10 rounder. The bout was the main event of a Top Rank card which
12:00 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN When Teofimo Lopez walked through the ropes back in November he was the ruler of the lightweights and one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world following an upset victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko. Nine months later, Lopez entered the ring with uncertainty swirling around him. After the shocking defeat
Teofimo Lopez got back in the ring tonight for the first time since his 2021 loss to George Kambosos Jr, scoring a seventh round TKO over a game but over-matched Pedro Campa. Obviously, the bigger question now — and even before the fight — was what Lopez might do after this fight. He said some
(Apr. 20, 2021) Jesus Silveryra fights to a unanimous decision victory over Amon Rashidi after eight rounds of boxing in their super lightweight bout, live on FS1. Click here for a fight night recap: http://pbcham.ps/FightNight-042021 #RashidiSilveryra #JesusSilveryra #AmonRashidi Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing
Troy Isley failed to impress even his own corner in his latest victory. One of several members of the 2020 U.S. Olympic team under the Top Rank banner, Isley failed to separate himself from the pack in a six-round, unanimous decision win over a crafty Victor Toney. Judges Chris Flores (59-55), Patricia Morse Jarman (60-54)
Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury has been making quite a lot of news lately. First, he called out fellow heavyweight Derek Chisora, who he’s battled and bested twice. Then the towering Englishman announced that he had a new trainer in Isaac Lowe. Then, if that wasn’t enough, the undefeated WBC and lineal
Just hours ahead of a scheduled purse bid, WBA “super” featherweight champion Leo Santa Cruz and “world” champion Leigh Wood successfully came to terms for their title consolidator, which is “tentatively scheduled” for November 5th or 12th. It’s definitely a surprise that this fight came together, though not an unwelcome one. Both Wood (26-2, 16
Vergil Ortiz Jr. hopes to figure out his next move soon, even as there remains a logjam at the top of the welterweight division. All of the major hardware is currently occupied by Errol Spence (28-0, 22KOs; WBA/WBC/IBF) and Terence Crawford (38-0, 29KOs; WBO), who for months have been working out terms for a potential
Teofimo Lopez returns to action tonight, making the move up to 140 lbs to face Pedro Campa in a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN main event from Las Vegas. Our coverage will kick off with the prelims on ESPN+ starting at 6:40 pm ET, and we’ll have live, round-by-round updates and scoring from Wil Esco
Undefeated lightweight, Ruben “Ace” Torres (18-0, 15 KOs), who is making a case for being the 2022 Prospect of the Year, is scheduled to headline Thompson Boxing’s “Path To Glory” event on August 20, 2022. Torres, who is wrapping up training camp, will battle Cristian Baez (18-1, 17 KOs), in a ten-round main event which
After 8RDs of combinations and punches to the body, and an injury to his right hand, Batyr Akhmedov picked apart his opponent to defeat him by TKO. The 9-1-0 Akhmedov returns to the ring on August 20 to face Alberto Puello (20-0) for the vacant WBA Super Lightweight World Title on Showtime. Watch the #AkhmedovMendez
As Tyson Fury continually pump fakes the public with talks of his retirement, Top Rank’s Bob Arum talks to Fight Hub TV about his perspective on Fury’s future plans and why he says you can’t take anything Fury says too seriously. And as Arum tells it, Fury is an attention whore — and yes, I’m
Two Division Boxing World Champion and “People’s Champion” Badou Jack (26-3-3, 16 KOs) touched down with his team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Thursday night for his first fight in the Kingdom on the undercard of Oleksander Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua II, dubbed “Rage on the Red Sea”. Jack was greeted by hundreds of fans who
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