Posted on 02/27/2021 By: Hans Themistode The back-to-back losses Joseph Parker picked up in 2018 are now a thing of the past as he scored a fairly easy win over fringe contender Junior Fa. The all New Zealand showdown took place at the Spark Arena, in Auckland New Zealand. With a potential loss pushing him
Month: February 2021
12:41 PM ET Undefeated light heavyweight Gilberto Ramirez has signed a promotional deal with Golden Boy for multiple fights. The 29-year-old Ramirez (41-0, 27 KOs) had won the WBO super middleweight belt, but after five title defenses he decided to jump to light heavyweight, where he has won two fights. “They understood the goals and
Canelo Alvarez makes a quick turnaround back into the ring tonight against Avni Yildirim, with the full card starting around 7 pm ET streaming live on DAZN. The ring walks for the Canelo-Yildirim main event are being advertised for around 10 pm ET. Wil Esco will be on the round-by-round call for the evening’s featured
Feature • Issue • Premium Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Now he must rebuild. Callum Smith speaks to John Dennen about defeat and his new goal, becoming a two-weight king THE worst thing about losing is it hurts. That can be physical, look at the damage to Callum Smith’s nose and his grotesquely swollen arm after his tortuous
News Getty Images Joseph Parker gets the decision over old amateur rival Junior Fa in an all-New Zealand battle “AUCKLAND is going back in lockdown at 6am tomorrow morning … but hey, we’re going to have these fights” is a unique catchphrase for a ring announcer, but it meant Joseph Parker and Junior Fa had
December 11th was the original date for the long awaited Joseph Parker versus Junior Fa (19-0) heavy showdown. The fight ended up having to be delayed until February 27th when Fa had to undergo surgery for a medical issue. Fans in the United States and other countries can watch the action that will stream on
Posted on 02/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode Anthony Dirrell isn’t exactly looking past fringe contender Kyrone Davis, but he does view a win over him as somewhat of a formality. The former two-time super middleweight champion is set to take on Davis this Saturday night at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles California. For Davis,
8:08 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are close to agreeing a deal for their world heavyweight title unification fight, Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren has told
(June 28, 2016) Omar “Super O” Douglas (17-0, 12 KOs) wore down Alexei Collado (19-2, 17 KOs) before gaining a seventh-round knockout in a 130-pound bout on June 28, 2016 on PBC on FS1. A fast-rising star out of Wilmington, Delaware, Douglas jumped out to an early lead, controlling the action in the first frame.
Tommy Fury weighed in at 180lbs, ahead of his fifth professional bout, live on BT Sport on February 27. Fury takes on Scott Williams on Fight Night Live. Kaisy Khademi and Ijaz Ahmed top the bill with a bout for the European IBF and WBO super-flyweight titles. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️
Mikaela Mayer may have her next fight lined up, as the WBO junior lightweight titleholder posted on social media that she’s returning June 19, with an “opponent in the works.” Mayer (14-0, 5 KO) got two fights in during Top Rank’s “bubble” run in Las Vegas last year, beating Helen Joseph in July, and then
MIAMI – Under normal circumstances, Eddie Hearn would hope to draw a sizable crowd for Demetrius Andrade’s next hometown fight. The unbeaten WBO middleweight champion’s promoter would settle for whichever reasonable number of fans government officials in Rhode Island will allow for his upcoming title defense. Hearn informed BoxingScene.com that he intends to bring Andrade’s
Posted on 02/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode Eddie Hearn thought it was going to be pretty easy. With someone as skilled as Demetrius Andrade, the long-time promoter figured all he needed to do was provide him with a platform to showcase his skills and the big fights would come rolling in. However, after spending so many
7:37 AM ET The vast majority of the boxing world sees the outcome of Saturday’s super middleweight title defense by Canelo Alvarez in Miami a foregone conclusion. WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim has lost both of his big step-up fights in his career and has been out of the ring for two years. Alvarez has
Canelo Alvarez and Avni Yildirim are set for tomorrow night’s DAZN main event from Miami (Feb. 27, 7 pm ET), with both looking in good shape today on the scales. Both Canelo (54-1-2, 36 KO) and Yildirim (21-2, 12 KO) weighed in at 167.6, below the fight’s 168-pound limit. Alvarez will be defending the WBC
Issue • Premium • Preview Ed Mulholland/Matchroom In his quest to become undisputed champion, boxing politics means that Canelo cannot avoid an underwhelming assignment against the overmatched Yildirim, writes Paul Wheeler BECOMING an undisputed world champion is a difficult thing to do – especially in this day and age. Not only do you have to
Anthony Dirrell believes there’s too much left to accomplish to begin living in the past, never mind try to change anything about it. With that, it didn’t take very long for the former two-time WBC super middleweight titlist to come to grips with the result of his last fight. Dirrell relinquished his piece of the
Posted on 02/26/2021 By: Oliver McManus Frank Warren’s first card of 2021 has hit some serious stumbling blocks. A planned headline fight between Carl Frampton and Jamel Herring for the WBO super featherweight world title had to be postponed when Frampton was forced to pull out. That fight has been pushed back to April 3rd
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