News WBA super-middleweight champion Callum Smith takes on the star of world boxing, Canelo Alvarez THE wait is over. Canelo Alvarez, the most influential free agent in the sport, has announced his next move. He will box the WBA super-middleweight champion Callum Smith on December 19. This will be Alvarez’s first contest since parting ways
Month: November 2020
Deontay Wilder apparently has no plans of coming up for air from his deep, deep rabbit hole of excuses. In the latest leg of an unexpected PR blitz, Wilder doubled down on all the reasons – each one more fanciful than the next – on why he lost to Tyson fury in their ballyhooed rematch
Posted on 11/17/2020 By: Sean Crose “What a long, strange trip it’s been.” These words, from the Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’” are becoming more and more appropriate, as former WBC heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder makes more and more wild accusations in the wake of his defeat last winter to Tyson Fury. Wilder’s latest will certainly be
8:57 AM ET Another Terence Crawford fight, another eye-opening victory for the welterweight world titlist to solidify his spot atop the ESPN pound-for-pound rankings. But how long will fight fans have to wait for the megafights against top opponents and fellow titleholders Errol Spence Jr. and Manny Pacquiao? Former featherweight world titlist Shakur Stevenson, who
Amateur • Premium GB Boxing After a GB team go through their first international competition in the pandemic, George Crotty speaks to John Dennen about the experience, and winning gold THE Alexis Vastine memorial tournament, a competition dedicated to the memory of the French Olympian who tragically died, finished in Nantes on October 30. The
At age 54, Mike Tyson is set to return to the ring for his first organized and televised fight since his 2006 exhibition with Corey Sanders, as he’s facing fellow legend Roy Jones Jr in a Nov. 28 pay-per-view exhibition bout from California. Tyson, who last fought as a pro in 2005, caused a big
Undefeated former champion Brian Carlos Castaño (16-0-1, 12 KOs) of Argentina scored a technical knockout win over veteran contender Wale “Lucky Boy” Omotoso (28-5, 22 KOs) of Nigeria in a super welterweight showdown that headlined FS1 PBC Fight Night on Saturday from MGM National Harbor in Maryland. The official time of the stoppage came at
David Haye gives his reasons why he believes Joe Joyce is the favourite going into his bout with Daniel Dubois on November 28th. Haye cites Joyce’s amateur experience, the variation in game plans he’s seen in fights and the level of opposition as indicators as to how Dubois vs Joyce may go. Subscribe to BT
Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell is recovering from a COVID-19 diagnosis. He was scheduled to face unbeaten Ryan Garcia on December 5th in Indio, California – with the vacant interim-WBC lightweight title at stake. The fight was postponed, due to Campbell coming down with COVID, to a date to be determined shortly. The winner
Posted on 11/14/2020 After a fairly one sided opening two rounds, former super flyweight titlist Andrew Moloney found himself on the wrong end of the judges decision on the night. During the first round of his contest against WBA belt holder Joshua Franco, referee Russell Mora ruled that a head butt closed the right eye
Two years after headlining a New Year’s Eve event, Floyd Mayweather will return to Japan in the coming months, facing a to-be-named Japanese opponent in a February 28th exhibition as part of “MEGA 2021.” You can watch Floyd’s Q&A session here, starting at around the 7:30 mark. Mayweather (50-0, 27 KO) demolished kickboxing wunderkind Tenshin
Super flyweight contender Andrew Moloney has retained experienced boxing attorney Josh Dubin to represent him in the appeal process to overturn last Saturday’s no-decision ruling in his rematch with WBA “regular” champion Joshua Franco, which took place at the MGM Grand’s Conference Center in Las Vegas. The fight was a rematch on their June encounter – where
Posted on 11/15/2020 By: Sean Crose “The Gypsy King is returning in 2021. Only those that have supported me 100% since my comeback will be with me for the glory.” With that strange tweet, one of the stranger men in professional boxing made it clear that he will not be fighting in December, as has
11:59 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Former WBA super flyweight champion Andrew Moloney went from a dream scenario to an absolute nightmare on Saturday night, as his bid to reclaim his title against Joshua Franco resulted in a no-contest. Moloney (21-1, 14 KOs), who surrendered the title to Franco (17-1-2, 8 KOs) in a 12-round
Rankings go up on Mondays at Noon ET. Ranked fights this week: Junior Welterweight: (7) Shohjahon Ergashev vs Dzmitry Miliusha, Nov. 16 Lightweight: (8) Javier Fortuna vs Antonio Lozada, Nov. 21 Flyweight: (8) Cristofer Rosales vs Carlos Ariel Farias, Nov. 20 None of these are even very good fights, with Lozada a big underdog but
Luke Campbell believes Vasiliy Lomachenko was not the same fighter after their twelve round battle in August of 2019. Campbell lost a competitive twelve round decision, in a bout for the vacant WBC title in London. The WBA, WBO titles were also at stake. Lomachenko returned last month, and lost a twelve round unanimous decision to
Posted on 11/16/2020 By: Hans Themistode WBO welterweight star Terence Crawford has never been one to call out fighters. He’s simply been content with fighting the best out there no matter who it is. Yet, following a fourth round win over former welterweight belt holder Kell Brook, Crawford kept his answer short and sweet when
1:29 AM ET Leave it to the pandemic to stop one of the biggest fights in boxing. A potential welterweight unification bout between Terence “Bud” Crawford and Manny Pacquiao was nixed because of COVID-19 restrictions, Crawford said early Sunday morning after he retained his WBO welterweight belt with a fourth-round stoppage over Kell Brook. During
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