11:36 AM ET Canelo Alvarez will continue his pursuit to unify the super middleweight division May 8 vs. Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where more than 60,000 fans will be allowed in attendance, Matchroom Promotions said Friday. Alvarez, boxing’s biggest star and one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world,
Month: March 2021
Matchroom Boxing have announced a big May 1 card featuring a heavyweight clash between Derek Chisora and Joseph Parker in the main event, Katie Taylor defending her undisputed lightweight crown against Natasha Jonas, Dmitry Bivol putting his WBA light heavyweight belt up against Craig Richards, and Chris Eubank Jr taking on Marcus Morrison. Derek Chisora
Derek Chisora and Joseph Parker will collide in a heavyweight clash on a night of action that sees Irish star Katie Taylor defend her Undisputed Lightweight crown against former amateur rival Natasha Jonas and undefeated WBA Light-Heavyweight World Champion Dmitry Bivol put his Title on the line against Craig Richards, as well as the return
Posted on 03/19/2021 By: Sean Crose Now that he’s a certified 21st century pop culture icon, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how SKILLED a boxer Iron Mike Tyson was back in the 80s and even into the 90s. Thirty years ago this week, Tyson battled Donovan “Razor” Ruddock in a highly controversial fight. Watching
8:55 AM ET During his youth in Dagestan, Artur Beterbiev read a book on the sport of boxing that he still remembers to this day — and one line in particular. “I read it as a child, and it was advice for a young boxer,” Beterbiev told ESPN. “It had an idea in the book
Terrell Gausha improved to 22-2-1 (11 KOs) following an impressive second-round technical knockout victory over Jamontay Clark in their scheduled 10-round super welterweight contest, live from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut on March 13, 2021. This fight was broadcast on SHOWTIME as part of the Premier Boxing Champions series. #GaushaClark #Highlights Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for
Adam Catterall catches up with Frank Warren to get the latest on Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua following recent announcements. Warren discusses Eddie Hearn, potential sites, dates and Fury’s comments over the last week. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport
Feature • Premium Natasha Jonas has been planning her revenge for nine years. After an epic Olympic clash, she will fight Katie Taylor for all the lightweight world titles IT’S a fight that for Natasha Jonas has been nine years in the making. She met Katie Taylor in an outstanding Olympic quarter-final at London 2012.
Issue • Premium • Preview Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Lawrence Okolie makes the step up to world level against Glowacki, writes John Dennen FOR once in his career Lawrence Okolie has had to wait. With little amateur experience he qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games, while as a professional he raced to winning British, Commonwealth and
Feature Rising prospect Vergil Ortiz takes on former champion and fellow Texan Maurice Hooker in Fort Worth GOLDEN BOY welterweight prospect Vergil Ortiz gets a key test in his career against fellow Texan Maurice Hooker on Saturday (March 20) at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth. So far in his professional career Ortiz has answered
Lawrence Okolie has not had much experience as a professional or an amateur, but Eddie Hearn believes he can clean up the world cruiserweight division in 18 months before moving up to heavyweight if he beats Krzysztof Glowacki in a “life-changing” fight in Saturday night. Okolie faces Glowacki for the vacant WBO cruiserweight title at
Posted on 03/18/2021 By: Sean Crose The Puerto Rico Olympic Training Center hosted Ring City USA’s most recent card on Wednesday night. The broadcast was aired live on the NBC Sports Network. Things started off with former world title challenger Israel Gonzalez, 26-4 facing off against the 21-1-2 Jose Martinez in a scheduled 10 round
Issue • Premium • Preview Two title fights featuring Lee McGregor and Maxi Hughes are on a card made up of competitive bouts, writes Matt Bozeat TOP of the bill on MTK’s show at the Bolton Whites Hotel this Friday (March 19) is Lee McGregor’s bid to add the European bantamweight crown to his British
Karim Guerfi defends his European bantamweight title against top prospect Lee McGregor in today’s MTK Global main event, with the show streaming live at 3 pm ET on ESPN+. Guerfi should be able to tell us more about how good McGregor is, as he’s a very solid European-level fighter, not a world contender really, but
Joe Ward accomplished Thursday night what he intended to do the first time he fought Marco Delgado. The Irish light heavyweight prospect defeated Delgado by unanimous decision in their six-round rematch. Judges Gerardo Martinez, Charlie Ruiz and Jose Roberto Torres each scored all six rounds for Ward, 60-54. The 27-year-old Ward’s win enabled him to
Posted on 03/18/2021 Krzysztof Glowacki says there are weaknesses in Lawrence Okolie’s game and has promised to take ‘his’ WBO Cruiserweight World Title back home with him to Poland after he beats the Hackney contender at The SSE Arena, Wembley this Saturday, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories. Glowacki (31-2,
6:00 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 Lawrence Okolie’s first world title fight on Saturday comes as part of a busy month for the cruiserweight boxer, whose forthcoming book follows the
Ring City USA is back tonight from Salinas, Puerto Rico, featuring a renewal of the Mexico vs Puerto Rico rivalry in the 10-round lightweight main event, as Alberto Machado faces Angel Fierro. Fights start at 6:30 pm ET streaming for free on Twitch (which is also how international viewers can watch the full card), and
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