Posted on 12/01/2022 By: Sean Crose “These last few days I got carried away with the passion and the love I feel for my country,” Canelo Alvarez posted on social media Wednesday, “and I made comments that were out of order so I want to apologize to Messi and the people of Argentina.” Hopefully, that
Month: December 2022
WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford took some time to share his thoughts on some other recently announced fights in boxing, including a fight between Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Ryan Garcia, and also a fight between Caleb Plant and David Benavidez. With both of those fights highly anticipated, Crawford discusses how he views those fights potentially
It took some sorting out, but Regis Prograis has been paid in full for his 11th-round knockout win against Jose Zepeda on Saturday night. Prograis confirmed in a video posted to his Twitter account Thursday that he has received his $1,080,000 guarantee and his $240,000 bonus for winning from promoters of the event. Prograis revealed
Posted on 12/01/2022 By: Sean Crose “Let’s go! Ready to work!” WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world Tyson Fury bellowed after Thursday’s press conference to promote his title fight on Saturday against longtime contender Derek Chisora. “Cannot wait for Saturday night.” This will be Fury’s first fight since he knocked out Dillian Whyte
1:35 PM ET Derek Chisora said he and Tyson Fury agreed to deliver “the best first round in the heavyweight game ever” as he looks to cause an upset against the WBC heavyweight world champion on Saturday. The two Britons face off at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with the “Gypsy King” expected to complete a
Jake Donovan reports that after successfully avoiding a purse bid for their ordered IBF light heavyweight eliminator, Jean Pascal and Michael Eifert are set to square off on February 19th in Pascal’s home town of Laval, Canada. Eifert (11-1, 4 KO) got this opportunity when Joshua Buatsi declined to fight Pascal (36-6-1, 20 KO), allegedly
Erislandy “The American Dream†Lara (28-3-3, 16 KOs) delivered a one-punch knockout victory over Thomas “Cornflake†LaManna (30-5-1, 12 KOs) in the first round to capture the WBA Middleweight Title. “He said at the press conference that he was going to knock me out, but he ran right into that punch,†said Lara. “Maybe he
Despite his stock steadily rising, Jared “Big Baby” Anderson is very much in the infancy stages of his career. With 12 KO victories in just as many ring appearances, Anderson has yet to find an opponent that can push him past the sixth round. In fact, the highly ranked heavyweight prospect has failed to even
Posted on 11/30/2022 By: Sean Crose “We’ve had a great training camp and I’m desperate to get in the ring for the trilogy with Román.” So says Juan Francisco Estrada on the eve of his third fight with the legendary Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. “I’m happy and I feel it will be a great fight like
7:52 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. Two big trilogy fights are scheduled for Saturday in different parts of the world. Tyson Fury defends his WBC heavyweight world title against Derek Chisora in London (ESPN+, 1 p.m. ET), while in Glendale, Arizona, Juan Francisco Estrada takes on Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez in a rubber match for Estrada’s
SOMETIMES you get the sense in boxing that two fighters are just made for each other and not necessarily even in terms of their style or personality. Sometimes it can be a geographical thing, with both hailing from the same part of the world, and sometimes it can be due to where they are in
IT seems inevitable that the word “strength” will be said a lot ahead of the December 2 fight between British super-welterweight champion Troy Williamson and North East rival Josh Kelly. A word never easy to define, there is, where this fight is concerned, bound to be a focus on both the physical strength of the
Tyson Fury and Derek Chisora come face-to-face again ahead of their clash for the WBC World Heavyweight Championship at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Hit ‘Subscribe’ above to ensure you never miss a video from the BT Sport YouTube channel. Get a BT Sport Monthly Pass now! – http://bit.ly/BTSportMonthlyPass Visit and subscribe to our ‘BT Sport Boxing’
1 Alan Minter and Kevin Finnegan Minter outpointed Finnegan over 15 rounds for the British middleweight title in 1975, then won the British belt outright when repeating the trick the following year. Their third fight, again for the British title in 1977, was also won by Minter after 15 rounds. 2 Johnny Armour and Francis
A light flyweight unification bout between WBC champ Kim Clavel and WBA champ Jessica Nery Plata in Laval, Canada, originally scheduled for tomorrow, fell through at the eleventh hour yesterday when Clavel caught the flu. The combatants won’t have to wait long, though, as Yvon Michel announced today that they’ll now square off on January
The untimely health scare endured by Kim Clavel has produced a six-week delay in her quest to add another belt to her collection. A terrific WBC/WBA junior flyweight title unification bout between Montreal’s Clavel and Mexico City’s Jessica Nery Plata has been rescheduled for January 13 at Place Bell in Laval, Canada. Promoter Yvon Michael
Posted on 11/30/2022 By: Sean Crose “I ain’t worried about the check and all that right now,” Regis Prograis said on social media Tuesday afternoon. “That’s all going to be good.” Prograis, who knocked out Jose Zepeda last weekend for the WBC junior lightweight title made waves earlier in the day when he tweeted that