6:36 AM ET Jeff Wagenheim Oscar Valdez Jr. and Miguel Berchelt will have a lot to live up to when they step into the ring on Saturday at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, with Berchelt’s WBC junior lightweight title on the line (ESPN and ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET). Berchelt (37-1, 33 KOs)
Month: February 2021
Tonight on ESPN and streaming live on ESPN+, Miguel Berchelt defends his WBC junior lightweight world title against former featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez in the Top Rank Boxing main event. Coverage will start at 6:30 pm ET for the undercard prelim bouts on ESPN+, and then we’ll have live, round-by-round updates for the two main
Opinion Terry Dooley explores the idea of Schadenfreude (taking pleasure in the misfortune of others) and its place in boxing THE idea of Schadenfreude — taking pleasure in the misfortune of others — and its place in boxing has sporadically turned over and over in my mind ever since Audley Harrison, a former Olympian and
Oscar Valdez loved watching the Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales and the Rafael Marquez-Israel Vazquez fights. As a proud Mexican, the extremely competitive, entertaining nature of those unforgettable battles inspired him during Valdez’s ascent as an amateur fighter. Valdez realizes the proverbial bar those legends established is very high, but the former WBO featherweight champion gets
Posted on 02/19/2021 By: Hans Themistode It isn’t exactly easy finding someone who’s nearly seven feet tall and really knows how to fight. Being wrapped up in a global pandemic doesn’t help either. For heavyweight contender Otto Wallin, that is the precise predicament he found himself in. The heavyweight contender sat back in his palatial
???? FIGHT UPDATE ???? Four-Time 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 headlining super lightweight bout on Saturday, February 20, on Showtime. FIGHT NIGHT DETAILS ????: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-2-20-21 ***************************************************************************** (April 21, 2018) Four-division world champion Adrien Broner and two-division
Fairly often, Bob Arum will admit that he is prone to acting like a promoter and putting on a too-cheery face even if the circumstances would dictate otherwise if he didn’t have a dog in the hunt. I was thinking about that when I asked him Friday if he definitely expected an instant classic Saturday
News Mark Robinson Jordan Gill speaks to Roy Kelly ahead of his clash with seasoned world title challenger Cesar Juarez NEVER employ a Mexican as an opponent. That should have been a lesson learned over the last six months. Josh Warrington’s brutal first career defeat to Mauricio Lara’s hands of stone at Wembley followed on
LAS VEGAS, Nevada – It’s only fitting that Miguel Berchelt and Oscar Valdez officially weigh in for their highly anticipated showdown on the anniversary of an all-time classic between two Mexican warriors before them. Both boxers made weight for Saturday’s long-awaited junior lightweight title fight, which takes Saturday evening at MGM Grand Conference Center in
Posted on 02/19/2021 By: Sean Crose Yes, he’s back. He reportedly couldn’t make the set upon weight, but he’s back. Adrien Broner, boxing’s bad boy, returns to the ring this Saturday to face the undefeated but widely unknown Jovanie Santiago in a scheduled 12 round affair that is now being held in the welterweight division.
Following yesterday’s somewhat low-key announcement that Adrien Broner and Jovanie Santiago had “mutually agreed” to push their fight from 140 to 147 pounds on Saturday night, today’s weigh-in figured to be OK, and it was. Broner (33-4-1, 24 KO) and Santiago (14-0-1, 10 KO) both came in under the new limit, with Broner at 146
News Mark Robinson 440 days after Josh Kelly and David Avanesyan were first due to collide, the two are finally ready to fight. Roy Kelly (no relation) reports from the Wembley bubble THE weigh-in was not without its hitches. Issues regarding the scales had to be resolved just before the ceremony without the need for Eddie
The buildup throughout Otto Wallin’s previous fight focused on his ability to deliver a stiff challenge to the best heavyweight in the world. The goal moving forward is to make sure he is better remembered for his winning performances. A first step was taken by the Swedish southpaw last August, scoring a 5th round injury
Posted on 02/16/2021 By: Sean Crose Undefeated 16-0 welterweight Janelson Figueroa Bocachica will be squaring off against fellow undefeated prospect, Mark Reyes Jr as the highlight of a ShoBox card which will be aired live by Showtime from Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino on Wednesday evening starting at 9PM. The 14-0 Reyes Jr was last in
7:00 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN The seduction of Frank Espinoza — of Simmons Avenue in East LA, an occasional member of the City Terrace gang, son of a welder whose hands had been mangled by arthritis — began when he was a teenager, sometime in the mid-’60s, upon his maiden voyage to the Grand Olympic
Opinion LUIS PEREZ/AFP/Getty Images We ask a panel of experts how they see Miguel Berchelt vs Oscar Valdez going Carl FramptonTwo-weight world championI fancy Berchelt strongly in the fight. Valdez has shown a few weaknesses, certainly against Adam Lopez when he fought on the same card as me in Vegas. Canelo’s team are trying to
Opinion Los Guerreros – Listing 10 classic Mexican rivalries MARCO ANTONIO BARRERA vs ERIK MORALESThe Barrera-Morales trilogy is rightly regarded as one of the greatest collection of contests in history. Their bitter feud was rooted in the historic rivalry between their respective hometowns of Mexico City (Barrera) and Tijuana (Morales). After losing to Morales at
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn took some open questions from fans on Instagram on Thursday, giving some updates on the likes of Callum Smith, Devin Haney, the Fury-Joshua fight (kinda!), Josh Warrington following his loss to Mauricio Lara, and many more. Some of what Hearn had to say, mostly the boxing stuff, nothing about his
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