Amanda Serrano headlines in Puerto Rico tonight, facing Nina Meinke with three featherweight titles on the line in the 12-round main event. Jake Paul will also return on the card, facing club fighter Ryan Bourland in an eight-round fight serving as the night’s chief support. We’ll be here from 7 pm ET with live updates,
Month: March 2024
TWELVE months ago, in Newcastle, a new star emerged in the featherweight division. The sight of Otabek “Bruce Lee” Kholmatov, 12-0 (11), obliterating the previously unbeaten Thomas Patrick Ward drew significant attention. Ward was dropped three times and in the final seconds of the fifth round his corner threw in the towel. The well-travelled Kholmatov,
THE remarkable Amanda ‘The Real Deal’ Serrano heads home for the 50th fight of her career and there will be those in Scarborough hoping it all goes wrong for her in Puerto Rico on Saturday night. Serrano puts her WBA, IBF and WBO 126lbs titles on the line against fellow southpaw Nina Meinke, 18-3 (4),
Jermell Charlo has been stripped of his WBA junior middleweight title, meaning the former undisputed champion has lost the last of his undisputed titles. WBA president Gilberto Mendoza informed Dan Rafael of the championship committee’s decision to relieve the 33-year-old Charlo of his final piece of title hardware. Charlo is 35-2-1 (19 KOs), now without
Mike Coppinger, ESPNFeb 29, 2024, 05:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MIAMI — David Benavidez sat on the ring apron at the downtown BOXR Gym and wrapped his hands — just because the Canelo Alvarez fight he’s pushed so hard to land seems farther away than ever, doesn’t mean the work stops. Alvarez has long
Devin Haney was pressed by media members a number of times over a supposed sparring tape Floyd Mayweather gave Ryan Garcia to watch on Haney, only to dismiss the idea that one of his mentors would resort to such an underhanded tactic. But when Ryan Garcia publicly released the footage taken at the Mayweather’s gym,
Devin Haney isn’t mincing words anymore when discussing his one-time mentor Floyd Mayweather Jr. In recent years, the Hall of Fame fighter had given Haney guidance by training him at his Las Vegas gym, and the two were even flying together on Mayweather’s private jet and spending time at his mega-mansion. But as the WBC
THE RESULT: In a fantastic fight full of action and momentum swings, Germany’s Abass Baraou managed to outbox and outwork Sam Eggington, as well as beat him at his own game, to take the vacant European super-welterweight title tonight (March 1) in Telford. One step ahead throughout, Baraou hurt Eggington in rounds three, nine and
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterMar 1, 2024, 06:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A top Indian boxer waged a viral social media campaign to land a fight against Jake Paul for months. Now, the two are joining forces. Paul, the YouTuber-turned-boxer, has signed Neeraj Goyat to his boxing promotional company, Most Valuable Promotions, officials told
Posted on 03/01/2024 By: Sean Crose He was over an hour late for the press conference. When he finally did arrive, it was atop a white horse. A video had been making the rounds where he was seen ostensibly getting high. When asked about his lifestyle during the press conference, he admitted to drinking and
As Ryan Garcia heads into a showdown with amateur rival Devin Haney on April 20th, a lot of the pre-fight trash talk has been around a past sparring session between Haney and Gervonta Davis — a subject that has popped up from time to time in various circles. Garcia has insisted to the public that
Former stablemates Ryan Garcia and Canelo Alvarez are expected to stage near back-to-back pay-per-view headline appearances, with Garcia going April 20 against 140-pound world champion Devin Haney and Alvarez following Cinco de Mayo weekend against an opponent yet to be named. This sequence could affirm a torch-passing moment for Garcia. Not only is he fighting
By Oliver Fennell “I TOLD my wife to go home and take the kids. I said I’ll stay here and work hard. She said, ‘no, I know what you’re going to do’. “She was right – I was going to kill myself.” And so Tsolmon, wife of the boxer known as Shinny Bayaar (real name
Andreas Hale Mar 1, 2024, 07:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions YouTuber-turned-prizefighter Jake Paul continues his pursuit of one day becoming a boxing world champion when he faces Ryan Bourland (17-2) in the co-main event of Amanda Serrano’s homecoming fight against Nina Meinke on Saturday night in Puerto Rico. The fight will be Paul’s second
By Elliot Worsell IT could very well be an age thing. Either that or an increasing need for and appreciation of sleep. Whatever it is, the prospect of watching boxing from Japan at the wonderfully civilised hour of 11am has become not only more and more appealing but now also appears to represent the best
By Matt Bozeat WHATEVER happened to Sam Eggington? He was last seen handing Southampton puncher Joe Pigford his first loss on the Chris Billam-Smith-Lawrence Okolie undercard in Bournemouth last May. That win – his eighth over an unbeaten opponent – didn’t open doors for the Midlands gunslinger. Rather, he was frozen out. Boxxer couldn’t find
Recent Golden Boy signee Arnold Barboza Jr confirmed today that, as first reported days ago by Dan Rafael, he’ll return to action on the April 20th Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia pay-per-view. Barboza (29-0, 11 KO), who made his promotional debut last month with an eight-round beatdown of Xolisani Ndongeni, also implied that he’d be
Otabek Kholmatov confronts the highly-touted Raymond Ford for the vacant WBA featherweight title in this weekend’s most intriguing fight. Both put their undefeated records on the line at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, New York live on ESPN+ on Saturday night. Kholmatov, 12-0, (11 KOs), has flown slightly under the radar until