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Posted on 04/26/2024 By: Sean Crose “FYI I don’t wait on no one,” Tim Tszyu tweeted this week. “I create my own destiny. Get the job done this weekend @VergilOrtiz and we make a fight for the ages.” Get the job done indeed. Should Vergil Ortiz succeed in defeating Thomas Dulorme this Saturday night when

Posted on 04/25/2024 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney took to Instagram Wednesday to declare he wants another fight with Ryan Garcia – just under different circumstances than the ones he found himself in last Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. For, although he had been heavily favored walking in, Haney ended up being soundly beaten

Posted on 04/24/2024 By: Sean Crose Saudi Arabia’s Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority, Turki Alalshikh has become a top figure in the world of professional boxing over the past few years. Now the Saudi authority is introducing himself to the world of US boxing by promoting the August 3’d

Posted on 04/23/2024 By: Sean Crose It appears the question of when the great Terence Crawford will return to the ring has been answered. According to numerous reports, the undefeated pound for pound king will make the leap to junior middleweight to take on WBA titlist Israil Madrimov at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium on August

Posted on 04/22/2024 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney took a beating from Ryan Garcia Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. That wasn’t how things were supposed to have turned out. Garcia, who had been acting bizarrely in the leadup to the fight, missed weight by a whopping three plus pounds and came across as not

Posted on 04/20/2024 By Sean Crose A scheduled 10 round junior middleweight showdown opened the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia pay per view card Saturday night in Brooklyn. The 22-7-1 Nathaniel Gallimore took on the rising 18-0 Charles Conwell to start things off at the Barclays Center. Both men fought tight in the first as they tried

Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose Super flyweights David Jimenez and John Ramirez battled for the WBA’s interim divisional title Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 13-0 Ramirez opened up by falling to the mat before the 15-1 Jimenez just after the opening bell. Both men then fought to control the range as well

Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose Supermiddleweights Bektemir Melikuziev and Pierre Dibombe engaged in a scheduled 12 rounder Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 22-0-1 Dibombe fought the 13-1 Melikuziev patiently at first, choosing to remain on the outside for most of the opening round. Dibombe, however, had what appeared to be a serious

Posted on 04/21/2024 By: Sean Crose Saturday night, it all went down. After one of the strangest leadups to a fight in recent memory, the 31-0 Devin Haney and the 24-1 Ryan Garcia finally did battle at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Although Garcia literally didn’t stand a chance of winning Haney’s WBC junior welterweight title (due

Posted on 04/20/2024 By: Sean Crose The 29-0 junior welterweight Arnold Barboza squared off against the 18-1 Sean McComb in the co-main event of Saturday’s Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia card at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The Barboza-McComb match was scheduled for 10 rounds. Southpaw McComb pushed the action in the first. Barboza, on the other hand, remained

Posted on 04/19/2024 By: Sean Crose Few will likely be surprised. Ryan Garcia, who has been on a strange journey of the mind leading up to tomorrow night’s fight with Devin Haney, has missed weight by over three pounds. While Haney has weighed in at a solid 140 pounds – within the junior welterweight limit

Posted on 04/18/2024 By: Sean Crose While Ryan Garcia has brought a lot of attention to himself in the leadup to Saturday night’s fight with Devin Haney, the WBC junior welterweight champion has largely remained focused at the task at hand. “I put my work in during training camp,” Haney told the media during a

Posted on 04/17/2024 By: Sean Crose “If you want to go to a Mets game, let me know because I’m throwing the first pitch.” So said Ryan Garcia on social media Tuesday. Things apparently didn’t go as planned. “The Mets just wasted three hours of our life,” Garcia posted later, “to say at the end

Posted on 04/17/2024 Book Review by Robert L. Seltzer “MY MOTHER and me” by Thomas Hauser “MY MOTHER and me” is one of those books that will stay with you long after you have finished reading it. The book has a narrow focus — the relationship between a son and his mother. But there is

Posted on 04/16/2024 By: Sean Crose “I had my first sparring session yesterday,” said super welterweight Justin Figueroa at the start of our phone interview. The 8-0 New Jersey native was already preparing for his next ring battle, which will go down May 11th in Atlantic City as part of Boxing Insider’s card, hosted by

Posted on 04/16/2024 By: Sean Crose Some people feel there’s far too many belts in professional boxing. It’s hard to argue against the WBC’s new belt, however, which has been made to commemorate the 18th of May’s undisputed heavyweight championship fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk. Why? Because the new belt has literally received

Posted on 04/15/2024 By: Sean Crose “My father was a professional,” rising bantamweight John Leonardo tells me, “so I just followed in his steps pretty much.” Sure enough, New Jersey’s Leonardo comes from boxing stock, his father having been a professional middleweight. Indeed, the senior Leonardo also gave his son the nickname the junior Leonardo

Posted on 04/14/2024 By: Sean Crose Undefeated 16-0 heavyweight Jared “Big Baby” Anderson returned to the ring for the first time since August on Saturday. His opponent at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas was the 32-2 Ryad Merhy. The fight, which was scheduled for ten, was the main event of an ESPN