Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson Josh Warrington is now a ‘former world champion’ after giving up the IBF title. It’s not a tag he wanted or expected at this stage of his career but he hopes the move will grant him the freedom to become the champion he deserves to be, writes John
Month: February 2021
Canelo Alvarez plans on being a busy boxer in 2021. The Mexican superstar Alvarez (54-1-2, 36 KOs) will return to the ring Feb. 27 for a mandatory defense of his WBC title against Avni Yildirim (21-2, 12 KOs) at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. Should he get past Yildirim, Alvarez, who also owns the
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode No one believed more than Stan Hoffman. Not even the boxers themselves. Hasim Rahman (left) walks away after knocking down Lennox Lewis in the fifth Round, while referee Daniel Van De Wiele counts Lewis out during the World Heavyweight Title fight at Carnival City, Johannesburg. * American Hasim Rahman
8:10 AM ET A new main event was set late on Thursday as the light heavyweight title fight between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov was canceled due to COVID-19. There won’t be a title on the line, but heavy punchers will seize the main event spotlight as Richard Commey and Jackson Marinez (ESPN+, Sat.,
History • Issue • Premium Getty Images We delve into the BN archives for an interview with the late, great British lightweight legend Dave Charnley THERE’S a topic that gets discussed on social media and net message forums with predictable regularity. Who was the greatest British boxer never to win a world title? Answers tend
Larry Merchant — the wordsmith who started out as a newspaperman and graced HBO airwaves with his often poetic and trenchant analysis for 35 years — sounded upbeat and ready to party when congratulated on making it to the 90-year mark. “It’s been a good day,” Merchant told me, after I sang him a few
Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, views the unification with Anthony Joshua as the biggest heavyweight fight since Muhammad Ali collided with Joe Frazier for the first time in March of 1971. Arum is negotiating with Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn, who promotes IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world champion Joshua. The veteran
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode All of the long hours and hard work that Joe Smith Jr. put in is all seemingly for nothing. At least for now. The light heavyweight contender was just recently informed that his upcoming showdown against Maxim Vlasov for the vacant WBO title will no longer take place this
5:05 PM ET The WBO light heavyweight championship fight between Maxim Vlasov and Joe Smith Jr. on Saturday has been postponed after the Russian native tested positive for COVID-19 this week in Las Vegas, it was announced Thursday. Vlasov (45-3, 26 KOs) was scheduled to face Smith (26-3, 21 KOs) for the vacant title in
#BronerSantiago Fight Night Details: http://pbcham.ps/FightNight-022021 Former four-division world champion and must-see attraction Adrien “The Problem” Broner will end his two-year hiatus from boxing when he faces Jovanie Santiago in a 12-round super lightweight bout Saturday, February 20 live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. in a
Matchroom Boxing returns to Barcelona on Friday, March 26th with two European title fights and a couple of Spain’s best fighters in store. The main event sees European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin (37-2, 13 KO) look for his ninth consecutive victory and second successful defense of the title he stopped Andrea Scarpa to claim
LAS VEGAS – Saturday’s Top Rank on ESPN main event between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov — for the vacant WBO light heavyweight world title — has been postponed after Vlasov tested positive for COVID-19. Vlasov said, “I am devastated with the postponement of my world title fight against Joe Smith Jr. I have
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode Following Vasiliy Lomachenko’s surprising loss at the hands of Teofimo Lopez in mid-October last year, promoter Bob Arum did not want to bother him just yet. Lomachenko had always dreamed of becoming an undisputed world champion and needed only one more win to achieve his ultimate goal. Lopez though,
Iran Barkley is indeed in the hospital after testing positive for COVID, but the three-weight champ from the Bronx told BLH that he is feeling decent. Once a fighter, always a fighter. “I’m hanging in, buddy,” Barkley, age 60, told me on Wednesday evening. “I went to the hospital last week, because I started coughing,
Feature Mike Tyson’s then-trainer, Aaron Snowell, looks back on a disatrous night for the whole of Team Tyson “WOULD Don King, one of the wisest men boxing has ever seen, put me in the corner of the most valuable brand that not only boxing, not only sport, but entertainment had to offer if I didn’t
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez already has his next two fights scheduled, yet he continues to keep tabs on the rest of the super middleweight division. With that came his team’s undivided attention on another recent divisional title fight, as unbeaten Caleb Plant (21-0, 12KOs) scored a 12-round shutout win over Caleb Plant in a Jan. 30th
Posted on 02/10/2021 By: Hans Themistode The more famous they become, the less they become visible to fans. Unlike his contemporaries who enter the ring sparsely throughout the year, Canelo Alvarez intends on doing things a bit differently. After making the trek to the ring only once during a pandemic stricken 2020, Alvarez says he
7:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Joe Smith. A search on Boxrec.com reveals seven and a half pages — almost 200 professional fighters — who go, or have gone, by “Joe Smith.” The name itself is a generic suggestion: just a guy, an ordinary guy, a regular guy, blue collar, everyman. The Joe Smith in question
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