Amateur IBA Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Kellie Harrington returned to action at the Strandja tournament in Bulgaria, winning alongside middleweight team mate Aoife O’Rourke ATER winning Olympic gold at the Tokyo Games last year, Irish lightweight star Kellie Harrington returned to action at the Strandja tournament, which concluded on Sunday (February 27) in Sofia. Harrington
We have our first casualty of the sanctioning bodies’ recent moves to penalize Russia and Belarus. Jalol Akhmedov reports and others confirm that a March 26th show in Ekaterinburg, headlined by Magomed Kurbanov vs. Patrick Teixeira, has been postponed after the WBA and WBO refused to sanction a pair of scheduled title fights. The first,
HAMZAH SHEERAZ BELIEVES he will benefit from the adversity of his last fight when he makes the step up to middleweight on March 19 at the OVO Arena, Wembley. The 14-0 Hamzah found himself caught in the eye of a storm back in December at the Copper Box when he was deducted a point for
Posted on 03/02/2022 By: Hans Themistode There was an indelible smile smeared onto the face of Dmitry Bivol. The 31-year-old light heavyweight titlist has been longing for a showdown against boxing’s premier star, Canelo Alvarez. The wish of the current WBA 175 pound champion was officially granted just a few days ago as he’ll now
Newark’s Michael Anderson (22-3-1, 16 KOs) scored a third-round knockout over Noe Lopez (10-5-1, 4 KOs) 33 seconds into the round. #AnderonLopez #MichaelAnderson #Boxing 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
#NoFilterBoxing takes you behind the scenes with Tyson Fury as he took over Wembley Stadium on the kick-off press conference for his huge heavyweight showdown with Dillian Whyte. #TysonFury #FuryWhyte Watch #FuryWhyte on BT Sport Box Office on Saturday, April 23rd. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡︠http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on
12:29 AM ET Australian Tim Tszyu has locked in his much-anticipated US boxing debut, taking on American Terrell Gausha in Minnesota in late March. The unbeaten junior middleweight contender was initially scheduled to fight on the same card as Brian Castano-Jermell Charlo on Mar. 19 in Los Angeles. However, the winner-takes-all unified showdown was cancelled
Jose Ramirez and Jose Pedraza understand the stakes. The junior welterweights know that the winner of Friday night’s 12-round main event at Fresno’s Save Mart Center will likely receive a world title shot next. Ramirez (26-1, 17 KOs) is a former unified world champion seeking to return to the division’s apex. (photos by Mikey Williams)
Posted on 03/02/2022 By: Sean Crose “It’s my duty to defend my home, my family,” says IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk during a CNN interview. “It’s not that I want to fight somewhere on the front line. I’m defending my home. I’m defending my wife, my children, my close ones.” The Ukrainian
Ryan Garcia’s April 9th return against Emmanuel Tagoe may not tickle many people’s fancies, but there’s at least one interesting fight on the card. Five-division titlist and reigning WBA flyweight champion Naoko Fujioka revealed yesterday that she’ll face WBC titlist Marlen Esparza in a unification match at the Alamodome. The 46-year-old Fujioka (19-2-1, 7 KO),
WBC and IBF world champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. and WBA world champion Yordenis Ugas will square off in a welterweight title unification clash that headlines a Showtime PPV on Saturday, April 16 from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas in a Premier Boxing Champions event. Spence vs. Ugas is just the 12th unification fight
Posted on 03/02/2022 By: Hans Themistode Teofimo Lopez Sr. believes he’s been prophetic in his ability to predict his son’s future. Once Teofimo Lopez stepped onto the boxing scene, Lopez Sr. screamed to the mountain tops that his son would become a world champion in 15 fights and undisputed in 16. Fast forward four years
Now that we’re all set for Tyson Fury’s upcoming April 23rd WBC heavyweight title defense against Dillian Whyte, Fury is ready to get down to the business. Yesterday, Fury had to hold stage at the opening press conference all by his lonesome (with Whyte not in attendance), and not long after Fury plainly spoke to
News GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images ‘This is our home. What would you do if someone gets into your house? You defend it. What else?’ says Wladimir Klitschko, alongside his brother Vitali, the mayor of Kyiv IT is extraordinary to see major figures from the boxing world, past and present, staying in Ukraine during the Russian invasion
News James Chance/Getty Images ‘Both fighters are going for the knockout and when I land the Lancaster Bomber on his jaw it is going to be over,’ declared the champion ahead of Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte tickets going on sale DESPITE Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte tickets only going on sale today, their April
7:52 AM ET Josh Taylor made a big statement in May, when he defeated Jose Ramirez to win all four major junior welterweight belts. Taylor had another opportunity to show the world that his victory wasn’t just a one-off this past weekend, when he faced mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. But while Taylor won a split
Opinion Lawrence Lustig After Taylor vs Catterall we also ask an expert panel whether the current scoring system is an effective system Matthew MacklinFormer European champI have no idea. Saturday night for me was a shocker. I thought they got it wrong. 99.9% of people had it for Catterall, even if they had it closer.
Rising lightweight Jose Valenzuela (11-0, 7 KOs) scored a dominating fourth-round stoppage over Austin Dulay (14-3, 10 KOs). Valenzuela took control of the fight from the outset, scoring his first knockdown of the fight with a big combination punctuated by a left hook that sent Dulay to the canvas in round one. Valenzuela followed up