Opinion We pick a bunch of florally named boxers 1. PERNELL ‘SWEET PEA’ WHITAKERRegarded as one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time, Whitaker was a tremendous technician who claimed world titles at lightweight through to super-welterweight, as well as winning Olympic gold. 2. GEORGES ‘THE ORCHID MAN’ CARPENTIERA former world light-heavyweight champion, the
Month: January 2021
A month to the day after securing the biggest win of his professional career, undefeated super middleweight and two-time Ecuadorian Olympian Carlos Gongora has joined forces with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing. ✍️ Welcome to the team IBO Super-Middleweight champion, Carlos Gongora! Some fights to be made at 168lbs! Read more ⬇️ — Matchroom Boxing
With the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBoC) recently re-mandating the British flyweight title fight between Tommy Frank and Sheffield rival, Kyle Yousaf – promoter Dennis Hobson has updated on the situation. Frank and Yousaf were due to contest the Lonsdale Belt on the UK’s first ever drive-in boxing show last December but, with Yousaf
Posted on 01/18/2021 By: Sean Crose As a general rule, I tend to score fights as I watch them. It’s almost a subconscious act at this point. I started scoring fights as a fan with Leonard-Hagler back in 1987, and have only become more intense in my scoring since I started actually writing about the
Top welterweight prospect Jaron Ennis missed out on a step-up fight last month, but he’s apparently already got eyes on another one. Steve Kim reports that a clash between “Boots” and former super lightweight champion Sergey Lipinets “is being discussed for April.” Ennis (26-0, 24 KO) was supposed to face Thomas Dulorme on Showtime’s December
Zanfer Promotions CEO Fernando Beltran, who co-promotes undefeated middleweight contender Jaime Munguia (36-0, 29 KO’s), says their desire to make a fight with IBF champion Gennady Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KO’s) is very real. Beltran has confirmed that both camps have been in talks about the fight, but refused to place a percentage on the probability of the contest
Bob Arum Responds To Keith Thurman’s Rant: “What The Hell Is He Talking About?” Posted on 01/18/2021 By: Hans Themistode Former unified welterweight champion Keith Thurman tore Bob Arum a new one with a seething rant recently. The Florida native had long expressed an interest in facing WBO belt holder Terence Crawford. However, talks broke
News • Premium World Series of Boxing Only two people have stopped Anthony Joshua and Solomon Dacres has beaten one of them. The new heavyweight has a date for his pro debut. He speaks to John Dennen SOLOMON DACRES, formerly a super-heavyweight on the Great Britain squad, has turned professional. He will make his pro
Caleb Truax laughs. It’s not a nervous laugh, nor one of derision to my ignorance – I mean, I have just asked him to walk me through the relatively straightforward process of ice fishing. It’s wholesome and genuine; relaxed and welcoming. There is an aura of calm exuding from the former IBF super middleweight champion
Everything about his title winning effort is a night that Angelo Leo will always remember, although he still longs for the day when he can truly celebrate the biggest achievement of his career to date. Albuquerque’s Leo (20-0, 9KOs) was blessed with the privilege of headlining the first Showtime card during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic
Posted on 01/17/2021 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury appears confident that he’s going to be facing fellow heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua in a superfight rather soon. Fury’s American promoter, Bob Arum, feels the same way, as does Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn, who is quoted by the Times as saying a “deal is done” for the
7:08 AM ET Devin Haney recites his lightweight hierarchy without hesitation. Himself, Teofimo Lopez, Gervonta Davis then Ryan Garcia. The rankings of these top four young fighters will be debated by the boxing community often throughout 2021 — until they can settle the score. There have even been comparisons to the Four Kings (Sugar Ray
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Issue • News • Premium Bob Arum and Eddie Hearn give their takes on making the Joshua-Fury fight, while Sulaiman does the WBC few favours with his championing of Conor McGregor, writes George Gigney in his weekly round-up of the boxing media YouTube FOR boxing, 2021 could be off to an encouraging start. We appear
Issue • News • Premium But Tony Bellew has committed to the sport in a new way. He tells Chris Walker how he went from retired fighter to one of the sport’s most passionate managers TONY BELLEW had firmly slammed the door shut on boxing, or so he thought. His unsuccessful attempt at overthrowing Oleksandr
SHO, 9:00 pm ET, ShoBox: The New Generation. This was originally meant to be a quadrupleheader, but a lot of ShoBox cards are meant to be quadrupleheaders, and rarely make it all the way there. The original main event between Patrick Cora and Hurshidbek Normatov is off, and neither of them are on the card
Fred Levin, the Pensacola attorney who with his brother Stanley guided Roy Jones through the glory years of Jones’s ring career, died on January 12, 2021, of complications from COVID-19. He was 83 years old. Levin, like Jones, was born and raised in Pensacola. After graduating from the University of Florida School of Law in
Bernard Hopkins: “GGG Declines Every Year, Oscar Would Win By Unanimous Decision” Posted on 01/17/2021 By: Hans Themistode The laughs were both loud and immediate. The mere thought of Oscar De La Hoya being competitive with anyone in the top ten of the middleweight division, let alone someone the likes of Gennadiy Golovkin (GGG) was
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