Posted on 05/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode Jorge Linares has spent approximately 20 years of his life boxing as a professional. Considering his extensive amateur background as well, it’s safe to say that the Venezuelan product has seen just about everything in the ring. Still, even with his substantial amount of experience, Linares is tasked with
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7:46 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN It’s hard for Devin Haney to find the right words. After months of training and preparing for his fight Saturday, the undefeated WBC lightweight titleholder would much rather express himself by using his fists than his mouth. At 135 pounds, a lot of attention has been paid to three-belt champion
News Justin Setterfield/Getty Images After years of work behind the scenes as an elite amateur, Cyrus Pattinson signs with Matchroom to make his pro debut in his Newcastle home town on Sky Sports THE life of a top amateur boxer is made up of gruelling, hard work, far from the limelight. For former GB boxer
Mandatory challenger George Kambosos Jr. (19-0, 10 KOs) has promised to do a real number on unified lightweight world champion Teofimo Lopez (16-0, 12 KOs). Their fight is set for Saturday, June 19 at Miami’s loanDepot Park, and live on pay-per-view. Kambosos has accused Lopez of being a fraud. He says Lopez consistently issues contradicting
Posted on 05/27/2021 By: Hans Themistode Julian Williams vividly remembers the night he fought Jermall Charlo. After the two talked smack to one another for several months, Williams goaded Charlo into staying at the 154-pound division for one final fight. With the two facing off for Charlo’s IBF world title, the Houstonian would ultimately prevail
Top Rank has officially revealed that their June 26th Vasiliy Lomachenko-Masayoshi Nakatani card will see former WBA “world” middleweight champion Rob Brant face Kazakh Olympian Janibek Alimkhanuly in the co-feature. Brant’s roller-coaster career saw him rise through the ranks at middleweight before making a one-and-done trip to 168 for the World Boxing Super Series, where
Daniel Dubois speaks to BT Sport about rebounding from his heartbreaking loss to Joe Joyce, teaming up with new trainer, Shane McGuigan and his comeback fight against Bogdan Dinu on June 5th on BT Sport. 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
WBC Bantamweight World Champion Nordine Oubaali and future Hall of Famer Nonito Donaire will meet in a long-awaited championship showdown on Saturday, May 29 headlining action live on SHOWTIME in a Premier Boxing Champions event from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING begins at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT and will
Issue • Premium • Preview Scott Heavey/Getty Images Kash Ali determined to make fans forget his past when he takes on Salek on Friday in Sheffield, writes Matt Bozeat THINK of Rotherham heavyweight Kash Ali and you doubtless think of him biting David Price. The red tops rounded on him and the British Boxing Board
Mexico’s Alejandro Barrios and the Dominican Republic’s Juan Gabriel Medina will meet in an eight-round bantamweight attraction that highlights the non-televised undercard lineup this Saturday, May 29 from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The undercard will also see unbeaten super lightweight Luis Salazar (15-0, 3 KOs) taking on Detroit’s Kevin Johnson (8-2, 4
Posted on 05/27/2021 By: Sean Crose “This isn’t an easy fight,” the 26-0 Mario Barrios says to ESNEWS during his training camp for his June 26th Showtime Pay Per View bout against the 24-0 Gervonta “Tank” Davis. “We’re both explosive.” The fight, which will go down at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, will be for Barrios’ WBA
Feature Mark Thompson/Allsport In his new book Tris Dixon spoke to Herol Graham about going from the limelight to the psych ward “IT hit the side and I felt a numbness and I remember falling and I could feel myself going down.” In his next memory, Herol “Bomber” Graham was in hospital being checked out.
During this media session captured by Fight Hub TV, Teofimo Lopez Sr explains how he and his son are seeking a match up against newly-minted undisputed junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor, saying Taylor is scared to face his son because he knows he can’t match up. Check out some of what Lopez Sr. had to
Ramla Ali is thrilled to be making her American debut in Las Vegas – but will not be rushed into taking big fights as she plots her route to the top, starting with her third pro fight on Saturday May 29 at the Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV, live worldwide
Posted on 05/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode Heading into his highly-anticipated showdown against Oscar Valdez on February 20th, earlier this year, many believed Miguel Berchelt would walk right through his man. Considering the streak he was on, which consisted of 16 straight wins with 15 of them coming by way of knockout, Berchelt was head and
Former Cincinnati Bengals star Chad Johnson has long been out of the sporting world’s spotlight, playing his last game for the New England Patriots in 2011, but now at 43, he’s set to make a boxing debut of sorts, participating in an exhibition on the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul card on Sunday, June 6. Johnson will
Youtube star Logan Paul is now taunting his upcoming opponent, five division world champion Floyd Mayweather. The 44-year-old Mayweather is going to return to the ring to face Paul in a special exhibition fight on June 6th in Miami, Florida. Showtime Pay-Per-View will carry the event. Mayweather retired from the sport of boxing in 2017,
Posted on 05/26/2021 By: Sean Crose According to Anthony Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn, his fighter “felt all along that they didn’t want the fight.” The “they” Hearn is referring to here is Tyson Fury and his team. Joshua and Fury were set for a major fight in Saudi Arabia to decide the undefeated heavyweight championship