By: Sean Crose Former world titlist contender Otto Wallin returned to the ring Friday night in order to take on Onoriode Ehwarieme in a scheduled heavyweight eight rounder. The bout, which went down at the Tropicana Atlantic City, was a Boxing Insider promotion aired live on the DAZN streaming service. A thunderous straight left from
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Golden Boy has unveiled the full undercard for Vergil Ortiz Jr’s August 10th showdown with Serhii Bohachuk. In addition to Gabriela Fundora’s previous revealed title defense against Daniela Asenjo, the show will see Charles Conwell and Kenneth Sims Jr return to action in separate bouts. Conwell (19-0, 14 KO), who kicked off his GBP tenure
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 26, 2024, 04:42 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions The USA Olympic boxing team will face the same daunting task
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might forget who’s running things in the heavyweight division. Yes, Oleksandr Usyk is the clear and – technically or not – undisputed heavyweight king. Tyson Fury, his predecessor, will take another crack at Usyk in December. Anthony Joshua, a
Scott Christ (31-8) I think this fight could be ugly fun to watch if all works out, but it might also wind up just sad at the other end of possibilities. That leaves a big middle between those two points, which is where it likely settles, a fight that happens and not much is memorable
Nick ParkinsonJul 26, 2024, 07:52 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Women’s boxing has seen a resurgence since the sport was allowed to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London. Since then, fighters like Claressa Shields and Katie Taylor have
By Elliot Worsell THIS time 20 years ago I was about to start writing my first ever feature for Boxing News with the aim for it to find a home in an August issue of the magazine. There had been two previous attempts – a news piece about Paulie Ayala, and a pro-Audley Harrison fluff
Chloe Watson will defend her European flyweight title against Jasmina Zapotoczna on the undercard of Thomas Essomba-Charlie Edwards on September 27. Watson, 24 and trained by Ricky Hatton, became champion in December when she outpointed Justine Lallemand, and in Poland’s Zapotoczna will be confronting her biggest test against an opponent who earlier in July inflicted
JOE JOYCE doesn’t want to talk about the past anymore. Specifically his two defeats to Zhilei Zhang in 2023 which shattered the momentum he’d been building towards a world title shot. The 38-year-old heavyweight was immediately written off by many who believed his flaws had finally caught up with him, having got away with them
ATLANTIC CITY (July 24, 2024)–Weights for Friday night’s Boxing Insider Promotions card that will take place at Tropicana Atlantic City and streamed Live on DAZN Otto Wallin 244 lbs. – Onoriode Ehwarieme 226 lbs. Jason Castanon 139 lbs. – Arevonte Dukes 136 lbs. Justin Figueroa 159 lbs. – Freddy Espinoza 159 lbs. Bruce Seldon Jr.
Claressa Shields may be competing for heavyweight hardware this weekend when she takes on Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse, but it’s clear that some of the top female fighters in the sport have caught her attention as she offered words for everyone during today’s final press conference. Here’s some of what she had to say when taking to
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 25, 2024, 08:24 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Canelo Alvarez is being stripped of his IBF super middleweight title
This Olympic year for USA Boxing was strange mainly because the Olympic Trials did not matter much. None of the U.S. Olympians fought at the Trials, as the team was built around the results of 2021-2022 competitions, with certain fighters gaining extensive international experience. This different team dynamic took the drama out of the 2023
By: Sean Crose Ali-Frazier. Zale-Graziano. Fury-Wilder. These are considered some of the greatest trilogies in boxing history – and rightfully so. Yet the three fights that went down around twenty years ago between Arturo Gatti and “Irish” Micky Ward still brings chills up the spines of fight fans. These were three absolute wars that occurred
As expected, Canelo Alvarez’s next title defense will see him face WBA mandatory challenger Edgar Berlanga in the main event of a September 14th Prime/DAZN PPV. The press release names only the WBA, WBO, and WBC titles, suggesting that William Scull may not have accepted a step-aside deal after all. I’ve already said my piece
Jul 25, 2024, 05:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Joe Joyce will have the chance to once again get close to a heavyweight title opportunity when he faces Derek Chisora at O2 Arena in London on Saturday (ESPN+, 3:30 p.m. ET). Joyce (16-2, 15 KOs), 38, is a former WBA and WBO mandatory challenger, but
The criticism has been relentless, but Mauricio Sulaiman expects it to subside now that David Benavidez has accepted the opportunity to perform as a light heavyweight. Sulaiman and his World Boxing Council pressed Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) to choose between being the interim champion and mandatory challenger at both super middleweight and light heavyweight. At
Nick ParkinsonJul 25, 2024, 07:05 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Boxing has a long history of great champions, stars and celebrated Hall of Famers. Since the creation of the Marquess of Queensberry rules in 1867, almost every generation has
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