Month: March 2021

IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is already working on several game plans to overcome WBC champion Tyson Fury, according to trainer Joby Clayton. Clayton works with Joshua’s head trainer, Rob McCracken. While the date and location have yet to be finalized, Joshua and Fury have signed a two-fight contract. Both fights are expected
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Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Steve Bunce remembers Henry Cooper vs Joe Bugner, an unforgettable night in British boxing, 50 years on IT was just eight nights after the Fight of the Century, another night in a business so remote it is often hard to understand. The fighters, promoters, trainers, managers, the man in
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10:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN After months of arduous negotiations between competing promoters and rival champions, the contract for a two-fight deal between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua to unify the heavyweight titles has been finally signed. “We’d like to get a site deal confirmed in the next month,” said Eddie Hearn, managing director of
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Issue • Opinion • Premium Michael Marley pays tribute to Marvin Hagler, a legend who always remained humble OLIVER “ATOMIC BULL” McCALL was pegged as a no-hoper against exalted WBC heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis but, with one eye closed shut, the American dethroned Double L and at the Royal Albert Hall no less. Fast forward
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WBA, WBC and IBF Unified World Super Welterweight Champion Jermell “Iron Man” Charlo joins The PBC Podcast this week to discuss his goals for 2021 and beyond. Plus, we look ahead to Saturday night’s PBC on SHOWTIME triple-header, examine five historic fights with a twist and more! For show notes and more info, click here:
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Dominic Ingle and Liam Williams allowed BT Sport to see how ‘The Machine’ is preparing for his world title bout with Demetrius Andrade, as we got a brief glimpse of his sparring in Sheffield. 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
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Roman Gonzalez believes he has already beaten Juan Francisco Estrada twice. Boxing’s former pound-for-pound king still would welcome a third fight against his Mexican rival. Gonzalez, more commonly known by his nickname, “Chocolatito,” might have to wait to encounter Estrada a third time because Estrada is supposed to make a mandatory defense of his WBC
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Posted on 03/14/2021 Shannon Courtenay will face Ebanie Bridges for the vacant WBA Bantamweight World Title at a venue to be confirmed on Saturday April 10, live on Sky Sports in the UK and on DAZN in the U.S. and more than 200 countries and territories. Courtenay (6-1, 3 KOs), who stopped Dorota Norek in seven rounds on the Saunders vs. Murray undercard
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