Month: November 2020

While pro boxing has adapted to the times in many respects, creating COVID-free bubbles and running shows in studios and empty venues all over the world, many fighters are still left unemployed, or at best, underemployed. Boxing’s big budget promoters have the resources to run network television shows, and those with shallower pockets have adapted
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Kell Brook Believes He Knows Exactly How Matchup With Terence Crawford Plays Out: “I Believe I Stop Him Or He Quits On The Stool” Posted on 11/11/2020 By: Hans Themistode Kell Brook has watched numerous Terence Crawford contests, including sitting front row for his sixth round stoppage victory over fellow British native Amir Khan in
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7:44 AM ET It’s not easy being king. Hidden in the never-ending conversation about when ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound boxer, Terence Crawford, will have his much-awaited superfight against Errol Spence Jr. or Manny Pacquiao, is the fact he has a worthy challenge Saturday as he defends his WBO welterweight world title against Kell Brook inside
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News Barry McGuigan ‘pleased’ to move on after 19-day court battle with Carl Frampton abruptly concludes THE legal battle between Carl Frampton and his former manager Barry McGuigan was settled before the case was due to resume at the Belfast High Court on Thursday (November 12). Frampton, who won world titles in two weight classes
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David Benavidez Urges Caleb Plant To Forget Canelo Showdown: “You Talk All That Shit, You Gotta Come Show Me” Posted on 11/12/2020 By: Hans Themistode For years now, IBF super middleweight champion Caleb Plant and former WBC belt holder David Benavidez have thrown shots at each other over social media. Fans however, would love to
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Dec 4, 2019 Mark KriegelESPN Editor’s note: This was originally published ahead of Crawford’s fight against Jeff Horn on June 9, 2018. OMAHA, Neb. — Grover Wiley was 25, six years into a pro career that would see him retire the great Julio Cesar Chavez. Terence Crawford Jr. — “Bud,” as everyone called him —
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Katie Taylor headlines as a trio of women’s world title fights top Eddie Hearn’s latest Matchroom offering, writes Declan Taylor NOBODY could have predicted that what would really help women’s boxing receive more mainstream exposure in this country was a global pandemic. In a boxing landscape where the age-old currency of ticket-sellers is just about
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