Mike Coppinger, ESPNDec 1, 2023, 06:35 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Emanuel Navarrete underwent left hand surgery on Friday at Hospital Mexico Americano in Guadalajara, Mexico, the junior lightweight champion announced on Instagram. Navarrete, ESPN’s No. 1 boxer at 130 pounds, referred to the surgery as minor and said it was an old injury that
Month: December 2023
Ryan Garcia is ready to fight in the ring. The junior welterweight contender did his best to soak in the cheers and support as he stepped on the scale ahead of his DAZN-aired main event versus Mexico’s Oscar Duarte. Garcia registered at a career-heaviest but well-proportioned 143 pounds during Friday’s official weigh-in. Duarte was 142.8
Mike Coppinger, ESPNDec 1, 2023, 07:31 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Ryan Garcia, WEARING an open black shirt with sparkles that revealed his chest and an oversized gold cross pendant, stood at the dais and answered questions, one after another. With media members glued to every word, he attempted to explain why he couldn’t beat
Crazy as it sounds, the WBA has been surprisingly non-wretched this last year or two. Save for Gervonta Davis and David Morrell Jr, plus special circumstances like Rolando Romero’s injury, they’ve been proactive about cutting down on the number of extraneous belts in play. Their rankings aren’t any more putrid than the other sanctioning bodies,
Posted on 12/01/2023 By: Sean Crose And here you were thinking there were already too many world titles out there. The World Boxing Association, once famous for it’s ubiquitous titles, has decided there’s going to be some more. Why? Because they’re creating a new weight division, of course. Introducing Super Cruiserweight. “The World Boxing Association
By Elliot Worsell CORNER stoppages are unique and fascinating because they represent the one time a prolonged period of contemplation – by boxing’s standards anyway – has led to a crucial and final decision. The decision, of course, is to end a fight, which, in a boxing ring, is a decision at any other stage
Heavyweight contender Nathan Gorman would relish a showdown with David Adeleye, as he makes his return live and free-to-air on Channel 5 on Friday night. The 27-year-old makes his comeback after over a year out of the ring, on the Wasserman Boxing show at the Toughsheet Community Stadium, in Bolton. Gorman returns to the ring
Karriss Artingstall (Featherweight contender) You’ve got females who are capable of doing the longer distance, but the vast majority are not. The entertainment would drop massively. I’ve watched some fights, and I wouldn’t like to watch them over a longer format. I watch some fights and think, “I wish this would hurry up and finish.”
By Matt Bozeat THE record books may be rewritten at the York Hall on Friday night (December 1) when Gavin Gwynne meets Emiliano Marsili for the vacant European lightweight championship. At the age of 47 years, three months and 21 days, Marsili, a southpaw from Civitavecchia in Italy, can become the oldest to win European
One final pound-for-pound list for 2023! We’ve got one fighter out from last month, though mostly with the expectation that he will return in 2024. Who else might make a big move next year? December 2023 The voters: Scott Christ, Wil Esco, John Hansen, Patrick Stumberg, and Lewis Watson Dropped Out: Shakur Stevenson (T-7 last
By Declan Warrington “HE’LL come back with a vengeance,” says Joe Goossen of Ryan Garcia, with whom Goossen split after Garcia’s stoppage in April by Gervonta “Tank” Davis – their third fight as fighter and trainer. “Ryan, with only 24 fights, took on a very wily, strong, unbeaten knockout artist – a left-hander, who’s proven
Jermall Charlo was enjoying his time on top. Fat paychecks, world titles, and adoring fans, everything was going according to plan. However, when that life-ship is sailing smoothly, that’s often when things start going downhill. Seemingly out of nowhere, Charlo was forced to take a two-and-a-half-year sabbatical. Injuries took a toll on him but more
Mike Coppinger, ESPNNov 30, 2023, 05:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Junior welterweight contender Ryan Garcia claimed at Thursday’s news conference that Hall of Fame fighters Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins, his promoters at Golden Boy, are “backing” his opponent, Oscar Duarte, to defeat him Saturday in Houston. Duarte (26-1-1, 21 KOs) is
Posted on 11/30/2023 By: Sean Crose Things are obviously not going well at Golden Boy Promotions. When one of your star fighters is very publicly confronting your two head honchos at a press conference, there’s reason for concern. And indeed, Ryan Garcia confronted both Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins on Thursday at the
The drama between Ryan Garcia and his Golden Boy promoters is just the gift that keeps on giving. The sides squabble so much in public that one might wonder if it’s not just a deliberate marketing ploy of some sort, and today was no different as Garcia called out both Oscar De La Hoya and