Gary Lockett (Trainer) I’d love to see Ryan Garcia do it. I don’t like some of Devin Haney’s comments. He’s brash and arrogant. But I do think Haney is the closest thing I’ve seen to [Floyd] Mayweather. He fights very much like him. He’s got that shoulder roll style, not the biggest puncher but he’s
Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterApr 16, 2024, 08:44 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The biggest fight in the history of women’s boxing will have an even bigger rematch. Two-weight undisputed champion Katie Taylor will once again face Amanda Serrano on July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, as the co-main event of the boxing
Jessie Magdaleno hopes to lean on his experuence as a former world champion to defeat 27-year-old Brandon Figueroa on May 4th. The interim WBC featherweight world title fight will take place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on the Canelo Alvarez-Jaime Munguia Prime Video pay-per-view undercard. Magdaleno (29-2, 18 KOs) has had a slow
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
Following today’s festivities, building up this weekend’s PPV main event between Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, Haney spoke to boxing media about wanting to secure an emphatic win over his rival. Haney doesn’t believe Garcia has been taking this fight seriously, and expects for that to show itself in the ring as he expects a
James Regan Apr 16, 2024, 09:03 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Anthony Joshua last fought in March, knocking out Francis Ngannou inside two rounds. Richard Pelham/Getty Images British heavyweight Anthony Joshua looks set to headline a major fight at London’s Wembley Stadium in September. Promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren confirmed on Tuesday that Turki Alalshikh,
Success in boxing is often measured as a victory, but for the 25-year-old seeking to make this next decade his era, the result that follows days later will trigger the same nervous anticipation that accompanies judges rendering a narrow fight. For unbeaten Devin Haney, Saturday night’s WBC 140-pound title defense against Ryan Garcia is a
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
Jake Paul’s July 20th Netflix showdown with Mike Tyson will feature at least one morally defensible boxing match, as MVP announced today that undisputed super lightweight champion Kaie Taylor will rematch rival Amanda Serrano in the co-main event. “This is the rematch the world has wanted to see and I’m delighted that it’s finally happening,”
Nick ParkinsonApr 16, 2024, 08:58 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions It took years for rival promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn to even speak to each other, but now they are working together to create boxing events, and on
FILIP HRGOVIC expects to face Daniel Dubois for the vacant IBF heavyweight title on June 1 – with a Wembley superfight against Anthony Joshua also awaiting the winner. Hrgovic is part of Team Matchroom for the 5 vs 5 event against Queensberry, with Frank Warren’s heavyweight hope Dubois the man selected to face the Croatian.
Devin Haney is targeting the pound-for-pound No.1 spot. WBC junior welterweight world champion Haney will face Ryan Garcia on Saturday, April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on DAZN pay-per-view. Haney, 31-0 (15 KOs), is focused on cementing his legacy in the sport and while Garcia, 24-1 (20 KOs), has not achieved as much as
After officially announcing Dmitry Bivol vs Artur Beterbiev for the undipsuted light heavyweight title on June 1st and Riyadh, Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn took the stage with 10 masked pugilists to steadily reveal the lineup for their long-brewing 5 Vs 5 showdown. First came Daniel Dubois (20-2, 19 KO), who battles Matchroom’s Filip Hrgovic
LET ME take you on a little journey from the back of York Hall, where there are always dead pigeons and discarded vapes on the floor, to the ring at the Olympics this summer in Paris. It is, I admit, not a direct journey, but stick with me because there will be stops for dream
Ryan Garcia is not happy with the ticket prices for his upcoming fight, arguing that they are too high for most people to afford and thus likely to affect gate sales. Garcia fights Devin Haney on Saturday, April 20th for the WBC junior welterweight world title, but with just days remaining, Ticketmaster’s seat map shows empty
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
Mark Butcher attends the Beterbiev vs Bivol and Matchroom vs Queensberry 5 vs 5 press launch and witnesses boxing finally marketing itself as an elite sport. Boxing’s greatest opponent has always been boxing. The sport has a tendency to self-harm rather than sell itself. You know the drill well enough by now, the best swerving
With former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder slated for a fight against Zhilei Zhang, he appeared at a press conference today where he acknowledge the state of his career and explains why this fight is make or break for him. Wilder, who’s lost three of his last four fights, says he’s regained his passion and also