Keith Thurman has been declared out Monday for the March 30 pay-per-view main event versus unbeaten WBO 154-pound champion Tim Tszyu because of a training camp injury, BoxingScene has learned from two officials. The card will remain an Amazon Prime Video pay-per-view from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and Premier Boxing Champions officials have worked
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Super bantamweight Liam Davies (16-0, 8KOs) continued his rapid rise through the ratings following a destructive second-round stoppage of Erik Robles (15-2, 9KOs) at the Resorts World Arena in Birmingham on Saturday. The Telford native, who has claimed British, Commonwealth and European title success in the previous two years, landed his third consecutive knockout win
The impressive Irish heavyweight Thomas Carty made short work of Pavel Sour in Castlebarm, Ireland on Sunday night. He improved his record to 8-0 with a second-round stoppage of the Czech heavyweight in front of a large and vocal following. The big puncher clinically stopped the fight midway through the second round with two well-timed
The first fighter uttered from the mouths of both William Zepeda and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya following Zepeda’s beatdown of Maxi Hughes Saturday night was Shakur Stevenson. Bob Arum, Stevenson’s promoter, welcomes De La Hoya to now make his first Sunday phone call to Arum. “Let Oscar call me and I’ll get that
Paulie Malignaggi believes that regardless of the strength in depth at both lightweight and super lightweight, one man stands above all of the others. The outspoken New Yorker thinks that when all is said and done, that Shakur Stevenson will rise above his contemporaries, including Gervonta “Tank” Davis if they were to ever box. Newark
Middleweight prospect Eric Priest outpointed Jose Sanchez in 10 uneventful rounds Saturday at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, in the last preliminary bout on the William Zepeda–Maxi Hughes fight card. Priest (13-0, 8 KOs), from Wichita Falls, Texas, was able to preserve his undefeated record, if not turn heads against Mexico’s Sanchez (21-5, 12 KOs).
Anyone who knows Manny Pacquiao understands he’s not a confrontational type outside the boxing ring. So take this footage of him shadow boxing in earnest in his hometown of General Santos City, Philippines, as more than a nudge to the parties who can deliver him a contract and a date to fight Conor Benn by
Ray Moylette will aim to give his career a storybook ending when he appears for the final time on Sunday’s “Once Upon a Time in The West” show in Castlebar. In 2008 Moylette took a bronze medal at the Youth World Championships and then claimed gold at the European Championships in 2011. In 2017 he
Cletus Seldin (28-1, 23 KOs) beat Jose Angulo (16-8, 9 KOs) by majority decision in an eight-round super lightweight clash Friday at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. But that will likely be his second-best memory of the night. After the fight, Seldin, 37, thanked his partner, Jessica Ostrowski, for her support
Salita Promotions has signed top super lightweight contender Michel “La Zarza Ali” Rivera to a long-term deal, adding a crown jewel to one of boxing’s most talented stables of up-and-coming fighters. “I am excited about reaching my goal of being a world champion,” said Rivera, who’s targeting a spring return. “This is going to be
Francis Ngannou gave a peculiar reason to explain his clinical second-round knockout defeat to former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25KOs). The Cameroonian MMA star posted a video on his Instagram account, explaining that he felt fatigued on the day of the fight against Joshua but refused to take any credit away from
Undefeated super middleweight prospect Tommy “The Governor” Hyde (7-0, 4 KOs) will be fighting for his first title as a professional boxer this Saturday on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, outside of San Francisco at Fox Theater in Redwood City, California. The 24-year-old Hyde, fighting out of Cork, will challenge fellow Irishman, Craig “BTL” McCarthy (10-1-1,
The rematch between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall has reportedly been postponed. Taylor, 33, and his long-term rival were scheduled to fight on April 27 at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, but according to ESPN, an injury suffered by Taylor means that the rematch that has been on course for over two years will
Carl Froch wants today’s fighters to treat the British title with greater respect. The retired Froch, 46, reflects on his time winning and defending the British super middleweight title three times – and therefore becoming a permanent owner of the often-revered Lonsdale Belt – as that provided the platform for the career that took him
Ukraine’s Tsotne Rogava believes he is the future of the heavyweight division. Rogava returns on March 23 against Antonio Brown (8-4, 8 KOs) at the LumColor Phoenix Center in Ontario, California. Despite a resume that features just five professional boxing fights, Rogava’s achievements are vast. He carved out distinguished Muay Thai and kickboxing careers before
Jessica McCaskill sees in Lauren Price the fighter McCaskill was when she was preparing to fight Katie Taylor in 2017. On the occasion of both of their seventh professional fights – Taylor had significantly more amateur experience – McCaskill fought the celebrated WBA lightweight champion, and despite defeat significantly enhanced her reputation. In her following fight she
Pierce O’Leary believes he is primed for a career-best performance when he boxes the unbeaten Belgian Hovhannes Martirosyan on Queensberry Promotions’ ”Magnificent Seven” on Saturday. After spending years training with Alan Smith at the iBox Gym in Kent, the super lightweight decided that he needed a change. O’Leary has a young family in Ireland and
The WBC has confirmed it will allow former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) the opportunity to face the winner of the upcoming undisputed heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) and Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), who meet May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The comments from WBC president
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