‘When Eubank wanted to rest, I made him busy, when he wanted space, I’d crowd him,’ says Steve Collins about a famous psychological victory MY greatest night was the first fight with Chris Eubank, at the Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Ireland, and it came on St Patrick’s weekend in March 1995. It was my
Month: March 2021
If there was anything more frustrating than the manner in which Joe Ward suffered a loss in his pro debut it’s the amount of time he was forced to sit on that result. A fluke knee injury forced Ward to concede early in the second round of his Oct. 2019 bout with Turlock, California’s Marco
Posted on 03/18/2021 By: Sean Crose The ads for the pay per view event were incredible, even by today’s standards. There was Mike Tyson, narrating in a ponderous voice how dangerous Donovan “Razor” Ruddock was. This was accompanied by slow motion footage of Ruddock knocking former heavyweight titlist Michael Dokes out with a single shot.
9:18 AM ET Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Maurice Hooker grew up roughly 15 minutes from each other in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. This weekend, they will continue to pursue the same dream they’ve lived for most of their lives, as they fight one another in a high-stakes boxing clash. But this night will be different,
Two-time world welterweight champion Shawn Porter and unbeaten two-time super middleweight champ David Benavidez are this week’s guests on The PBC Podcast. Porter discusses his upcoming role as boxing analyst for the Olympics, the challenges of running a podcast and, of course, when he’ll return to the ring and who he’s targeting. Benavidez recaps his
Willy Hutchinson is already being tipped to be one of the best boxers of his generation. We went to the Ingle Gym, in Sheffield, to find out more about the super-middleweight, rated so highly by Dominic Ingle, Shelly Finkel and Frank Warren to name a few. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing
Deontay Wilder hasn’t fought since his Feb. 2020 loss to Tyson Fury and doesn’t seem to have any plans to, at least not that anyone knows publicly. One idea would be for ex-WBC titlist Wilder to fight someone in an official eliminator for that sanctioning body, and Dillian Whyte certainly could be a name in
Opinion The Opening Bell podcast discusses the latest Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury developments, pays tribute to Marvin Hagler and more THREE days before Eddie Hearn declared that both Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have signed to fight each other, Alex Steedman spoke to Fury live on television and found the WBC heavyweight champion to
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has embraced the idea of sanctioning a final eliminator between highly ranked heavyweight contenders Deontay Wilder and Dillian Whyte. Wilder, a former WBC world champion, is ranked at number one. Whyte is sitting in the sixth ranked position. Before that can happen, Whyte will have to win his upcoming
Posted on 03/17/2021 By: Hans Themistode Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson wasn’t kidding around when he said he wanted to return to the ring soon. After ending his decade and a half retirement late last year to take on future Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition matchup, Tyson announced to the
Fresh off her latest win over former unified women’s champion Cecilia Braekhus, Jessica McCaskill talks a bit about what she thought of her performance to retain her belts and what could potentially be next now that there’s no question she’s right up there with her other top female contemporaries. McCaskill on her beating Braekhus convincingly
Junior lightweight Rene Tellez stopped gatekeeper Gabriel Piña in round 7 Sunday afternoon at the Plaza Festival in Rosarito, Mexico. With the win, Tellez (16-1, 0 knockouts) has now won his last three fights, all by knockout. Tellez, who is originally from Queretaro, Mexico and now lives and trains in San Diego, California, last fought
Posted on 03/17/2021 Rising welterweight star Jaron “Boots” Ennis faces his most difficult test in pursuit of a world title shot as he headlines his first SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING® against former world champion Sergey Lipinets. These formidable contenders meet in a 12-round, crossroads fight with welterweight world title implications on Saturday, April 10 live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m.
8:39 AM ET After a few eventful days in the boxing world, attention has turned back towards Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua with the announcement that the two heavyweight world titlists have signed a two-fight deal. A few big questions remain, including where and when the first fight will take place. And despite a two-fight
Thursday night’s Ring City USA main event was originally supposed to see Alberto Machado, a former 130-pound titlist, face unbeaten lightweight prospect Hector Tanajara. Instead, Machado will be facing Angel Fierro on about nine days’ notice, which the 30-year-old “Explosivo” admits isn’t exactly ideal. “We had a plan for Hector Tanajara. Fierro is a good
History Juan Manuel Marquez put his name back on the map after Indonesian nightmare, wrote Claude Abrams from ringside in 2007 GOOD things come to those who wait and Lord knows Juan Manuel Marquez has been waiting to announce himself to the world. He had, of course, held Manny Pacquiao to a draw in 2004,
BRITISH Middleweight champion Denzel Bentley will make the first defence of his title against mandatory challenger Felix Cash on Saturday April 24. The unbeaten pair will headline a night of boxing live on BT Sport. Queensberry Promotions won the purse bids for the fight between their man Bentley (14-0-1, 12 KOs) and Cash (13-0, 9
Posted on 03/16/2021 By: Sean Crose First things first – there was no one like Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and there never will be. Hagler, the undisputed middleweight champion of the world from 1980-1987, was unlike any fighter in his own time, much less today. Still, there is a fine line between the mindset of the
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