Adrien Broner apparently wasn’t pleased when his former longtime handlers informed him of a slight tweak to his risk-reward calculus. For the longest time, the career of Broner, the multi-division champion from Cincinnati, was essentially determined by his adviser, Al Haymon, the founder of Premier Boxing Champions, the company which has an exclusive output
Month: December 2022
5:33 AM ET They’ll move up and down weight classes, searching for the best possible opponent who can give them the most cachet in terms of financial gains, prestige and overall challenge. Welcome to the world of women’s boxing, where the best fight the best, where title fights are a weekly occurrence and unification bouts
25. GENE TUNNEY PTS 10 JACK DEMPSEY September 22, 1927 TUNNEY outboxed Dempsey 12 months earlier and 104,943 were at Soldier Field in Chicago to see if he could do it again. They saw what would be known as ‘The Battle of The Long Count.’ Dempsey fell behind early and remembered the seventh as a
ONE OF the least remarkable fights of the great Muhammad Ali’s decorated career came at the end of a fight week that left on him one of the greatest impressions of all. Ali was 30 – little over a year removed from The Fight of The Century and two before The Rumble in the Jungle
Claressa Shields didn’t need a win over Savannah Marshall to consider herself worthy of GWOAT status. It certainly helped plead her case, as well as collect year-end awards—including BoxingScene.com’s honor as the 2022 Women’s Fighter of the Year. The unbeaten three-division champion capped the best year of her already stellar pro career by avenging the
Stephan Shaw has accepted a more daunting assignment than he had for January 14. St. Louis’ Shaw was scheduled to box unbeaten Italian heavyweight prospect Guido Vianello in ESPN’s 10-round co-feature that night at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. BoxingScene.com has learned, though, that Shaw instead has agreed to replace injured Oscar
Hector Luis Garcia made quite a splash in 2022 having defeated highly-touted super featherweight contender Chris Colbert as a last-minute opponent and former world champion Roger Gutierrez to become the new WBA Super Featherweight World Champion. With these big wins, Garcia propelled himself into elite status, and that’s why he’s the PBC Breakthrough Performer of
Terence Crawford made the hard choice to face David Avanesyan for the sake of getting in at least one fight in 2022. High on the priority list of the unbeaten three-division champion and pound-for-pound entrant is to break the trend of settling for one fight per year. “I am making it a goal to fight
Nick Ball made short work of overmatched Mexican Jesus Ramirez Rubio, who was stopped in 108 seconds of the first round at York Hall in London. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡︠http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport Boxing Facebook Group ➡︠https://www.facebook.com/groups/BTSpo… Follow us on
The WBC middleweight title was on the line on May 8, 1993. Julian Jackson had captured the belt on Nov. 24, 1990 — the second world title of his career — after moving up from the junior middleweight division to defeat British great Herol Graham. He made four successful title defenses in five fights prior
50. SHANNON BRIGGS KO12 SIARHEI LIAKHOVICH November 4, 2006 THIS wasn’t even a good fight for 11 rounds and two minutes, not even close. But it scrapes the list due to the astonishing late drama. Briggs trailed by three points on two cards and a point on the other when the American had the Russian
PHILADELPHIA’S former lightweight contender Ivan Robinson is now 51 and taking it upon himself to make sure the Philadelphia way is passed down to future generations. For many, Philly is a fight town first and foremost and being the City of Brotherly comes second with the Liberty Bell and the Rocky steps tied for third.
These days, there is precious little boxing that takes place over the holidays, save for the customary late-year shows in Russia and Japan. For promoters, it’s a financially perilous decision to stage a show at this time of year, with potential ticket buyers and broadcast viewers’ time and money already allocated in many places. For
Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is very motivated to become world champion for a third time. In June of 2019, Joshua lost his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world titles when he was stopped by Andy Ruiz. Six months later, he reclaimed the belts with a dominant twelve round unanimous decision. Then in 2021, he
Tough news just before Christmas Day as multiple reports are surfacing that Jermell Charlo has suffered a broken left hand in training camp which will force a postponement of his January 28th title defense with Tim Tszyu. In particular, Marcos Villegas reports that Charlo is said to have broken his left hand in two places
Although there were countless speed bumps along the way, Errol Spence Jr. was convinced that both he and Terence Crawford could work out their differences and deliver to fans what they’ve been waiting on. But, much to Spence’s surprise, negotiations broke down during the 11th hour, forcing him to scramble for a new opponent as
Anthony Yarde returned to action against Stefani Koykov and made a huge statement with a massive KO over his opponent. immediately after his win, his blockbuster fight with Artur Beterbiev was announced for January 28th at the OVO Arena, Wembley. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter
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