A significant title defense will await whoever prevails in the final title fight of 2022. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that former WBO flyweight titlist Junto Nakatani is guaranteed to next face the winner of the December 31 WBA/WBO junior bantamweight title unification bout between Joshua Franco and Kazuto Ioka at a location to be determined in
Month: November 2022
Posted on 11/03/2022 By: Sean Crose It appears that boxing fans might have finally gotten some good news after a very tough few weeks where highly anticipated fights like Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua and Errol Spence-Terence Crawford have fallen through. Former super middleweight world titlist Caleb Plant announced on social media Thursday that he has signed
Bunce Diaries • Premium Dominik Musil is knocked down by Johnny Fisher during their heavyweight fight at Wembley Arena on October 29 (James Chance/Getty Images) Steve Bunce recalls another night of raw emotion at Wembley Arena BIG Guy Williamson sat in one of the few remaining seats and watched the Wembley ring vanish in front
Five years ago, it took Deontay Wilder less than one round to remind Bermane Stiverne that his victory in their first battle in 2015 was no fluke. #WilderStiverne2 Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
Feature • Premium Paul Butler celebrates beating Salvador Hernandez Sanchez on May 18, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Mark Runnacles/Getty Images) Paul Butler is about to embark on what almost everyone is calling an impossible mission: Go to Tokyo and beat Naoya Inoue. Butler sees it very differently, writes Oliver Fennell DEBATE RAGES, as ever, over
Dmitry Bivol defends his WBA light heavyweight title this Saturday in Abu Dhabi against Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez in a meeting of unbeatens, and we’ve got two more world titles on the line and another kinda-sorta belt on Saturday, too! Who ya got this weekend? Scott Christ (79-34) I think Zurdo Ramirez is a good fighter,
Opinion Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto Ramirez in Abu Dhabi ahead of their November 5 fight (Matchroom Boxing/Jorge Ferrari) A light-heavyweight fight involving two unbeaten boxers with a combined 64-0 record should generate more interest than it has, writes Elliot Worsell “DID you watch the fight at the weekend?” I was asked by my youngest brother,
Zach Parker is looking to remain undefeated on November 26th when he takes on John Ryder for the WBO Interim World Super Middleweight title. Check out how Parker is getting on ahead of the biggest fight of his career. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter âž¡ï¸Â
Letters Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto Ramirez meet in Abu Dhabi ahead of their light-heavyweight fight on November 5 (Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) This week’s panellists were asked to predict the outcome of Saturday’s light-heavyweight fight between Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto Ramirez Leigh Wood (Featherweight contender) I expect Dmitry Bivol’s boxing ability and experience will be
Sunny Edwards has been told he faces an extremely risky defence of his IBF world title next week. Edwards puts his precious belt on the line against the big-punching Nicaraguan Felix Alvarado on Friday, November 11 at the Utilita Arena in Sheffield. The world flyweight showdown tops a scheduled Probellum Sheffield show, which also includes
Posted on 11/03/2022 By: Sean Crose There was excitement in the air Thursday when Caleb Plant announced that he had signed to face his fellow former super middleweight titlist David Benavidez. “I went and MADE it happen,” Plant stated on Twitter. “Contract signed. See you next year.” Mike Coppinger of ESPN then took to Twitter
8:00 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former super middleweight titleholders David Benavidez and Caleb Plant both announced Thursday on social media that they’ve struck a deal for a long-awaited fight. The 168-pound bout will be presented by Premier Boxing Champions on pay-per-view in the first quarter of 2023, a source told ESPN. Benavidez (26-0, 23 KOs)
David Benavidez will not be fighting Jose Uzcategui in January, as we discussed earlier today, and nobody is shedding any tears over that. Now, it appears we will be getting Benavidez vs Caleb Plant next, and there’s not a lot more that boxing fans could ask than that in the current landscape at 168 lbs.
Unbeaten WBA “Regular” Super Middleweight Champion and Minneapolis fan-favorite David Morrell Jr. and undefeated mandatory challenger Aidos Yerbossynuly went face-to-face at the final press conference on Thursday, before they put their unbeaten records on the line live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, November 5 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from The Armory in Minneapolis. (photos
Posted on 11/03/2022 By: Sean Crose “I really had a big dream to win this belt and I don’t want to leave it,” said WBA light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol on the eve of his title defense against the undefeated Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez. “I will fight for this and I want to keep it. I
8:34 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The planned super middleweight bout between former champions David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui, a PBC on Showtime main event set to take place in January, has been scrapped, multiple sources told ESPN. The reason, sources said, is public backlash surrounding Uzcategui’s positive test for the performance-enhancing drug recombinant human EPO
ESPN’s Mike Coppinger revealed last month that interim WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez was “finalizing a deal” to face former IBF champion Jose Uzcategui in January. Reception was predictably poor, and Coppinger now reports that fight has been “scrapped” due to “public backlash” over the failed drug test that tanked the matchup the first
Letters • Premium Tyson Fury (James Chance/Getty Images) Press Tyson Fury on subjects he would rather not discuss and you risk facing the wrath of “The Gypsy King”, writes Matt Christie YOUTUBE ANYONE who has interviewed Tyson Fury on multiple occasions will tell you that he’s wonderful to engage with when he’s in the right