Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, has confirmed that there will be a rematch clause in the upcoming fight with Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk is the WBO’s mandatory challenger – and in many situations there are no rematch clauses in mandatory fights. However, the individual parties do have the right
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WBC Heavyweight World Champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury and former longtime heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder squared off for a long and intense face-to-face stare down Tuesday in Los Angeles at a press conference to preview their highly anticipated third world title showdown. (photos by Ryan Hafey, Mikey Williams, Sean Michael Ham)
IBF, WBC, WBA, WBO junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor is still undecided when it comes to his next career move. Last month in Las Vegas, Taylor scored two knockdowns to secure a twelve round decision over Jose Ramirez to unify the entire junior welterweight division. The big move would be a jump in weight to
It’s official. The race is on. To see which boxer will step up this summer to claim whatever oxygen is left in the room by the time the retired Hall of Famers and social media toe-dippers have retreated to the background. Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul reportedly bagged more than a million buys for their
A childhood dream is well within reach for Caleb Plant. Negotiations are due to begin for a potential superfight with pound-for-pound king and unified WBA/WBC/WBO super middleweight titlist Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. Plant holds the IBF super middleweight title, with the winner of such a fight becoming the division’s first-ever undisputed champion in the three- or
For months, Jamel Herring has been forced to listen to claims carrying a wide range of insults though all with a common theme—that he can’t not handle the challenger in waiting for his title. The reigning WBO junior lightweight champion is eager to prove the doubters wrong, making a point to be in the house
David McWater’s Split-T Management is known as boxing’s answer to Moneyball. As a lifelong baseball fan and researcher, as well as a lover of the Sweet Science, McWater has said that he felt he could combine his passions and capitalize on a market inefficiency. In his words, boxing was the “last frontier of analytics,” and
Errol Spence Jr. completed one of the most miraculous comebacks and recoveries of 2020 when he returned in December to unanimously decision Danny Garcia after what could have been a fatal crash in October 2019. The WBC and IBF welterweight champion Spence (27-0, 21 KOS) recently reflected on the fight and admitted that he was
Bob Arum doesn’t expect a new head trainer or anything else to enable Deontay Wilder to avenge his only professional defeat. Arum anticipates another knockout victory for Tyson Fury in his third fight with Wilder. The heavyweight rivals will fight again July 24, when Fury will defend his WBC belt for the first time in
Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas – For the WBO’s interim-super featherweight title, Shakur Stevenson (16-0, 8 KOs) dominated Jeremiah Nakathila (21-2, 17 KOs) over twelve rounds to secure a lopsided unanimous decision. The scores were 120-107 across the board. Stevenson is now in line to fight full WBO champion Jamel Herring, who was ringside to watch the fight.
Newcastle – In a heavyweight contest, Alen Babic (7-0, 7 KOs) blasted out Damian Chambers (11-2, 7 KOs) in the third round. Babic was fighting for the first time since his stoppage win over Tom Little in November of last year. And Chambers, a career cruiserweight, was coming back from more than a year of
Brutal honesty is what Lewis Ritson promises and that is what he gives. The former British lightweight champion has a final eliminator to earn the right to face Josh Taylor on Saturday. But ask if he would ideally fight the undisputed super-lightweight champion and the answer is ‘no’. Ritson faces Jeremias Nicolas Ponce, of Argentina,
Veteran gatekeeper Gabriel “The King” Rosado (25-13-1, 14 KOs) vows a stoppage win in his fight versus Bektemir “The Bek Bully” Melikuziev (7-0, 6 KOs), which is penciled to take place on June 19 as a part of the undercard to the Jaime Munguia vs. Kamil Szeremeta showdown. Rosado, 35, a long-time contender in the
Lewis Ritson will face Jeremias Ponce in a Final Eliminator for the IBF Super-Lightweight World Title at the Vertu Motors Arena, Newcastle on Saturday June 12, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the US and more than 200 countries and territories. (photos by Mark Robinson) ‘The Sandman’ won a controversial
Cyrus Pattinson is expecting a “lively” professional debut when he locks horns with Yoncho Markov over six rounds at the Vertu Motors Arena, Newcastle on Saturday June 12, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the US and more than 200 countries and territories. The former Team GB amateur standout inked
WBC middleweight world champion Jermall Charlo is hoping his upcoming challenger, Juan Macias Montiel, brings on the power when they collide next Saturday night, June 19, from the Toyota Center in Houston. Showtime will televise. Montiel secured his shot at the title with December’s first round blowout of James Kirkland. All 22 of Montiel’s wins
Caleb Plant has a message for those giving him the same shot at upsetting Canelo Alvarez that they gave Billy Joe Saunders. The unbeaten IBF super middleweight champion contends that he is better at virtually everything than Saunders. He commended Saunders’ performance against Alvarez last month, but Plant promised during an episode of “The PBC
As cool under pressure as one of the four fighters he featured in the Showtime documentary series The Kings, director Mat Whitecross didn’t expect to feel any nerves creeping in as episode one premiered last Sunday night. That cool comes with experience. “Personally, I think my philosophy has changed over the years,” Whitecross laughed. “In