Posted on 04/10/2024 By: Sean Crose “Wow – What a signing!” says Matchroom honcho Eddie Hearn now that IBF welterweight champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis has signed with his promotional outlet. “I’ve watched this young man for many years, and I always believed he would become a pound-for-pound great, and I have no doubt he is already
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Posted on 04/09/2024 By: Sean Crose “You’re going to see an ass whipping,” Ryan Garcia told Golden Boy Boxing before a public workout on Tuesday. Garcia, of course, was referring to his impending April 20th bout against lightweight king Devin Haney at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center. “It’s going to be light work for me,” Garcia continued,
Posted on 04/08/2024 By: Sean Crose “I’m closing out my career,” former WBO featherweight titlist Heather Hardy tells me over the phone. “I really wanted to make the most of my last year of fighting.” Hardy, who has been at the forefront of women’s boxing for a decade now, is certainly finding new worlds for
Posted on 04/07/2024 By: Sean Crose Undefeated Brooklynite Richardson Hitchins took on Gustavo Lemos in a scheduled twelve round IBF junior welterweight title eliminator Saturday night in Las Vegas. The fight was the main event of a DAZN broadcast card. First, however, super middleweights David Pacheco and Shawn McCalman battled in a match scheduled for
Posted on 04/06/2024 By: Sean Crose: “A lot of these young lions are right behind him,” Oscar De Lay Hoya said of Canelo Alvarez to Fight Hype at a media workout in Los Angeles to promote the Devin Haney-Ryan Garcia bout later this month, “trying to take that throne, trying to take that crown away
Posted on 04/04/2024 By: Sean Crose “In the UK boxing is a major, major sport,” British promoter Eddie Hearn told Fight Hype in an interview posted on Thursday, “top five, definitely. Probably top three.” Hearn, who runs Matchroom Boxing is one of the top promoters on the planet. What’s more, the Englishman has long worked
Posted on 04/03/2024 By: Sean Crose “Will you please promise me you’re going to kick this guys ass and shut him up?” This was the question Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Mike Tyson on his show Tuesday night. Tyson, who clearly knew Hannity at least fairly well, good naturedly responded to the host’s request.
Posted on 04/03/2024 Atlantic City Boxing is Back! NYC’s hottest club boxing series is coming May 11 to Tropicana Hotel/ Casino. It’s a stacked card. Tickets are now on sale at Ticketmaster! Boxing Insider Promotions is bringing boxing back to the Boardwalk at the Tropicana Hotel/Casino in Atlantic City. The date is Saturday, May 11, and begins
Posted on 04/02/2024 By: Sean Crose First things first – Sebastian Fundora looked fantastic in his victory this past weekend over undefeated junior middleweight titlist Tim Tszyu. He was battered, he was bloodied, but the Californian pushed ahead, earning himself not one, but two divisional championship belts. Yet it’s hard to deny that an accidental
Posted on 04/02/2024 2024 RING MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIPS: ROAD TO THE GARDEN New York’s Premier Amateur Boxing Tournament New York, NY, April 2, 2024 –The 2024 Ring Masters Championships: Road to the Garden, New York’s premier amateur boxing tournament, will arrive at the Mecca of Boxing on Thursday April 11, 2024. After eight weeks of competition
Posted on 04/01/2024 By: Sean Crose Sebastian Fundora rose to the occasion in a huge way Saturday night in Las Vegas as he dethroned the previously undefeated Tim Tszyu in one of the bloodies throwdowns fans had seen in ages. And while it was true that Tszyu suffered from a horrifying accidental cut throughout the
Posted on 03/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Both men had given hard hitting star Gervonta Davis a fight. And, although both fighters came up short against the man named “Tank,” there was no doubt that Isaac Cruz, 25-2-1, and Rolando Romero, 15-1, had subsequently moved on from defeat successfully. For, on Saturday night at the T-Mobile
Posted on 03/30/2024 By: Sean Crose It was supposed to be different. Keith Thurman, not Sebastian Fundora, was supposed to be facing undefeated world titlist Tim Tszyu Saturday night in Las Vegas. Thurman, however, got hurt in training, and the 20-1-1 Fundora took the call. And so the six and a half inch Californian made
Posted on 03/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Oscar Valdez is now the WBO interim super featherweight champion of the world. For, last night in Glendale, Arizona, the 33 year old simply got the better of the 28 year old Liam Wilson in a competitive fight. Wilson, 13-2, looked sharp in the first, but the 31-2, Valdez
Posted on 03/29/2024 By: Sean Crose “His bark is far stronger than his bite,” Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz said of his opponent this weekend in Las Vegas, the always showy WBA lightweight titlist Rolando “Rolly” Ramiro. Sure enough, things have been tense in the leadup to Saturday’s co-main event on the Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora pay per
Posted on 03/28/2024 By: Sean Crose The first thing that strikes you about the man is his height. At over six and a half inches tall, he’d fit right in with a room full of heavyweights. Sebastian Fundora is no heavyweight, however. In fact, he’ll be fighting for numerous junior middleweight titles this weekend when
Posted on 03/27/2024 By: Sean Crose You don’t have be a part of the live, in-person audience to hear the punches thud as they land on his opponents. The sound travels clear across broadcast technology, the drumming of leather hitting flesh with great power and a great speed, concussing, damaging, ruthless. The sound can be
Posted on 03/26/2024 By: Sean Crose And so it seems Tyson Fury is taking his May 18th undisputed heavyweight title fight against Oleksandr Usyk seriously. The truth is that, brilliant though he can be, WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Fury is an enigma, a top fighter who always seems to keep the public guessing. While