Feature • Premium Gennady Golovkin exchanges punches with Sergiy Derevyanchenko during their IBF middleweight title bout at Madison Square Garden on October 05, 2019 (Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images) When Gennadiy Golovkin steps into the ring to face Canelo Alvarez on September 17, it will be his first major test in almost three years. Thomas
Month: August 2022
Premium • Preview Dalton Smith and Sam O’Maison at the final press conference ahead of their British title fight (By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) Smith-O’maison looks like a vehicle for the former to impress DALTON SMITH is among the finest prospects in the country and on Saturday night (August 6) he gets the chance to win
Leigh Wood appears to have a list of options to consider for his next fight. The 126-pound WBA “world” titlist Wood (26-2, 12KOs) is coming off an incredible come-from-behind knockout win in a fight of the year contender against Michael Conlan in March. As the WBA continues its quest to clean up its muddied world
Posted on 08/05/2022 By: Sean Crose Eighteen fights. Eighteen wins. Eighteen knockouts. Virgil Ortiz’ record has spoken for itself up to this point in his career. The undefeated 24 year old Texan has established himself as a hard hitting powerhouse at welterweight. He’ll be facing another undefeated fighter this Saturday night, when he squares off
3:44 PM ET Sebastian Fundora and his younger sister, Gabriela, are going to be fighting on the same card as professionals for the first time in October, a source told ESPN. The fights are expected to take place on Oct. 8 at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. Opponents are yet to be
Kendo Castaneda and Antonio Moran are set for the final of ProBox TV’s “Last Chance” tournament at 140 lbs, with the two winning very different fights on tonight’s show from Plant City, Fla. Castaneda (19-5, 9 KO) punched his ticket first, beating local favorite Joseph Fernandez on scores of 96-94 from all three judges in
(July 30, 2022) Two-division world champion and smooth-boxing Cuban Rances Barthelemy was bound to pose problems for unbeaten rising super lightweight contender Gary Antuanne Russell. Further, Russell was fighting for the first time as a pro without his father, esteemed, late trainer Gary Russell Sr., who died in May after years of battling health issues.
In what amounted to a preposterous promotional stunt, Hasim Rahman Jr. ceremoniously came in overweight Friday afternoon for a pay-per-view fight against Jake Paul that was canceled six days earlier. Rahman’s intention was to prove that he could’ve come in at least at the contracted limit of 205 pounds on the day they were supposed
Posted on 08/05/2022 By: Sean Crose Featherweight Michael Conlan reutrns to the ring this Saturday at the SSE Arena in Belfast to take on Miguel Marriaga in a scheduled twelve rounder. This is an important fight for Conlan, whose last fight ended in a brutal but memorable defeat at the gloved fists of Leigh Wood.
There is ‘Nowhere To Run’ for Joe Joyce and Joseph Parker. The two heavyweights will collide on September the 24th at the AO Arena in Manchester. Join us LIVE for the Joe Joyce v Joseph Parker Press Conference. Hit ‘Subscribe’ above to ensure you never miss a video from the BT Sport YouTube channel. Get
4:54 PM ET WBO junior middleweight champion Natasha Jonas and WBC titleholder Patricia Berghult will fight in a unification title bout on Sept. 3 in Liverpool, England. Jonas (11-2-1, 8 KO) was the first British woman boxer to compete in the Olympics and will be making the first defense of her WBO belt, which she
Jack Catterall could soon be right back in the mix — at least as far as he sees it — now that he’s just penned a multi-fight contract with Boxxer, led by promoter Ben Shalom. Catterall is coming off what probably should’ve been a career-defining win against former undisputed titleholder Josh Taylor, but tells Sky
Maurice Hooker plans to represent his hometown in every imaginable way this weekend. The former WBO junior welterweight titlist is set for his crossroads battle with Blair Cobbs this Saturday at Dickies Arena in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Hooker arrived at Wednesday’s workout in Irving sporting an R&R Boxing Club t-shirt from his Dallas hometown
Posted on 08/04/2022 By: Sean Crose There’s no doubt that it has not been a great year for Ukraine, the eastern European nation engaged in an all out war with Russian forces. WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk returned to his Ukrainian homeland after Russia began its invasion last winter. He’s since been
Feature • Premium Richard Slone in action After a brief period as the trainer of Nico Ali Walsh, Richard T. Slone, a protege of both Joe Frazier and Emanuel Steward, tells Declan Warrington how he is again focusing full-time on the art that is recognised around the world WHEN last year Richard Slone painted Joe
Letters “Smokin'” Joe Frazier To celebrate the announcement of the heavyweight clash between Joe Joyce and Joe Parker, we take a look at 10 other Joes who became world champions 1 Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow, as good a technician as there has ever been, reigned as heavyweight champion from 1937 until 1949 and accumulated
Nonito Donaire has been pretty quiet since his June loss to Naoya Inoue, where he got caught and stopped in the second round of a three-belt bantamweight unification in Japan, but the 40-year-old Filipino legend is now speaking up again. And no, he doesn’t plan to retire. Instead, he’s yet again looking to do something
Opinion Manny Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach speak before a workout in preparation for his fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015 (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Portsmouth’s Michael McKinson will be in Texas this weekend fighting Vergil Ortiz Jnr, one of boxing’s hottest prospects. But is McKinson a fighter easy to ignore? asks Elliot