Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez landed the fight he always wanted from the moment he arrived at light heavyweight. As previously reported by BoxingScene.com, a deal was reached at the eleventh hour for Mexico’s Ramirez to move forward with his owed mandatory title challenge of WBA light heavyweight champ Dmitry Bivol, just in time to avoid a
Editor’s letter • Premium Anthony Joshua addresses the crowd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing) Given the pressure he will have felt ahead of it, Anthony Joshua’s reaction to losing against Oleksandr Usyk for a second time seems almost a natural one, writes Matt Christie YOU know the feeling. Late on a Saturday
As Robert Helenius prepares for his recently announced fight coming against former heavyweight titleholder Deontay Wilder, Helenius talks to Lance Pugmire about his thoughts on this fight as he stands firm that he’s fully focused on winning this bout and not what could potentially come afterwards. Helenius says he plans to bring an even more
Feature • Premium Conor Benn and Tony Sims (Photo by James Chance/Getty Images) A relaxed and confident Tony Sims explains why Chris Eubank Jnr is just another fight for Conor Benn TONY SIMS used to spar Nigel Benn back in the “Dark Destroyer’s” Nineties heyday. Back when Benn’s biggest rival was Chris Eubank. Today, he
Letters World featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon of France (A. Jones/Express/Getty Images) One of the greatest of all Australian boxers passes away AUSTRALIAN former world featherweight champion Johnny Famechon died on August 4 at the age of 77. Famechon, who was born in Paris before moving to Australia as a five-year-old, won the WBC title
Letters 10 things we learned watching Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua share a ring for a second time on Saturday night… 1 Usyk is big enough and good enough Many were concerned Usyk’s heavyweight career would flatter to deceive due to him being a cruiserweight moving up, but he once again showed he is both
#RuizOrtiz Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-090422 Andy Ruiz works the mitts with crazy speed as he prepares for his heavyweight showdown against Luis Ortiz, live on FOX Sports PPV on Sunday, September 4th, from Crypto.com Arena in LA! Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
Gennadiy Golovkin is less than a month away from his grudge match with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. On September 17th, Golovkin will face Canelo for a third time at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. They initially fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in 2017. A year later, Canelo won a very close twelve
Posted on 08/22/2022 By: Sean Crose I can’t say I ever imagined Oleksandr Usyk being one of the two last men standing in the post-Klitschko heavyweight era. If you had asked me, say, three years ago who I thought would end up King of the Heavies, I would have said Deontay Wilder. His peers, Anthony
Promoters Bob Arum and Frank Warren are both confident that an undisputed heavyweight championship fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk will happen, following Usyk’s rematch win over Anthony Joshua this past Saturday. Fury (32-0-1, 23 KO) still holds the WBC title despite being officially retired, a position he’s made clear a few times lately,
Daniel Dubois is nearing a point where the only fighting he has to worry about will take place in the ring. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that significant progress has been made in settling an active lawsuit that the British heavyweight has filed against Don King Productions earlier this month. Dubois has yet to be paid in
Posted on 08/23/2022 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney, the undisputed lightweight champion of the world will once again be fighting George Kambosos, the man he beat to become undisputed champ, on October 15th in Melbourne Australia. Although American Haney travelled to Australia to defeat Kambosos last June, the contract required that a second fight go
Aug 20, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN Oleksandr Usyk retained his three heavyweight titles with a split-decision victory over Anthony Joshua in a rematch on Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. One judge scored the bout for Joshua, 115-113, but was overruled by tallies of 115-113 and 116-112 in favor of Usyk, who defeated Joshua for a second
Letters • Premium Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Oleksander Usyk v Anthony Joshua, IBF, WBA, WBO & IBO World Heavyweight Title Fight. 21 August 2022 Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing Anthony Joshua is spoken to by his dad after walking Out the ring atthe end of the fight This week’s panellists were asked to offer their
Hughie Fury and Michael Hunter were slated to square off earlier this summer in a WBA eliminator, only for the former to withdraw due to unspecified illness. Now, Fury tells Sky Sports that the pair will meet on October 29th. That timeslot is presently unoccupied; the biggest shows that day, Vasiliy Lomachenko vs Jamaine Ortiz
Canelo Alvarez is cognizant that his first career loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013 wasn’t so bad after all. The undisputed super middleweight champion tasted defeat for the second time in his career most recently in May when he stepped up to light heavyweight to challenge Dmitry Bivol, and ahead of his trilogy against Gennadiy
Posted on 08/22/2022 America’s dream maker and Australia’s emperor are primed for a second Down Under showdown to establish ultimate supremacy at 135 pounds. Undisputed lightweight world champion Devin “The Dream” Haney will defend all the belts against Sydney native “Ferocious” George Kambosos Jr. on Saturday, Oct. 15 (Sunday afternoon, Oct. 16 local time), at Rod Laver
Aug 21, 2022 Emanuel Navarrete looked like he was about to be in a fight. One shot to the body of Eduardo Baez ended any thought of that. It was a technically beautiful setup by Navarrete, who knocked out Baez in the sixth round to retain his WBO featherweight title and defend his belt for