News Andrew Couldridge/Pool/Getty Images The dream of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting for the undisputed heavyweight title has, at least in the near term, crumbled. Matt Christie reports ANY hope of Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury fighting in a boxing ring this summer, as opposed to just squabbling on social media, has dramatically faded
Month: May 2021
Issue • Premium • Preview Alex Gough Paul Wheeler analyses Taylor vs Ramirez, an enticing battle for super-lightweight supremacy AGE AND PHYSICAL EQUIPMENTTAYLOR: Having turned 30 at the beginning of this year, Josh Taylor is in his fighting prime. Standing at 5ft 10ins, the Scotsman is a good-sized super-lightweight. At the weigh-in ahead of his
Gervonta Davis can envision himself one day taking over the junior welterweight division. For now, the only thing in his mind is conquering his next challenge. A two-division leap is on the schedule for Baltimore’s Davis, who moves up from junior lightweight to challenge for Mario Barrios’ secondary version of the WBA junior welterweight title.
Posted on 05/20/2021 By: Hans Themistode Leonard Ellerbe couldn’t help but smile once it was revealed that Deontay Wilder won his legal arbitration against Tyson Fury. The former WBC heavyweight titlist enlisted the help of Daniel Weinstein as he pursued a third showdown with Fury. After settling for a draw in December of 2018, Wilder
7:55 PM ET A huge heavyweight fight is scheduled for this summer, but it’s not the one that has been discussed for the past six months. After rumors of a heavyweight unification against Anthony Joshua, WBC champion Tyson Fury will instead face Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight on July 24 or August 14 in
As WBA titleholder Mario Barrios gets prepared to take on Gervonta Davis next month in Atlanta in a Showtime PPV set for June 26, Barrios showed up to today’s press conference to tell the world that he’ll be well prepared for Davis and isn’t taking him lightly as Davis jumps two weight classes to meet
Sam Eggington and Carlos Molina came head-to-head today at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Coventry today ahead of their WBC Silver Middleweight Championship clash this Saturday night (22nd May) at the Coventry Skydome Arena, exclusively live and free on Channel 5. Presented by Hennessy Sports in association with William Hill, Infinitum, Numan, Everlast and
Posted on 05/20/2021 By: Sean Crose In yet another sign of the times, Jake Paul is about to sign a deal with Showtime, which means the professional fighter (and he is a professional fighter) who made his ring bones on the renegade entity known as Triller, will now be involved with one of boxing’s oldest
11:01 PM ET There is a deal in place for a boxing match between boxing luminary Oscar De La Hoya and UFC legend Georges St-Pierre. But the fight cannot happen unless the UFC gives its approval, according to Ryan Kavanaugh, who is attempting to promote the bout under his Triller Fight Club banner. Kavanaugh told
In hindsight, paying over twice the market value for the rights to Teofimo Lopez vs George Kambosos may have been too much. In a February 25 purse bid, Triller shocked the boxing world by blowing away Top Rank and Matchroom’s bids of $2.3 and $3.5 million with a wild $6.018 million offer of its own.
Boxers • Issue • Premium Mike Stobe/Getty Images Hank Lundy, a man who fights through the pain barrier, talks to Paul Wheeler When and why you started boxing:It was in my senior year at high school, when I was about 18. Some guy – he had to be about 24 – was out in the
Two-time world welterweight champion “Showtime” Shawn Porter and newly-crowned WBC and WBA World Super Bantamweight Champ Brandon Figueroa are this week’s guests. Porter discusses his many roles in and out the ring, why negotiations with Terence Crawford fell through and who he is targeting next. Figueroa recaps his big win over Luis Nery last weekend
Daniel Dubois spoke to BT Sport ahead of his bout against Bogdan Dinu on June 5th. He revealed how he felt watching his defeat by Joe Joyce, praised Billy Joe Saunders and reflected on sparring with Derek Chisora before Chisora faced Joseph Parker. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport
Feature • Issue • Premium Thirty-five years after his retirement Birmingham middleweight Willie Wright – the kind of fighter they just don’t make anymore – talks to Mike Lockley WILLIE WRIGHT’S rugged features – a nose bent and broken more times than the 10 commandments – betrays an uncompromising, 56-fight career against Britain’s best boxers.
WBC and WBO champion Jose Ramirez and IBF, WBA and Ring Magazine titlist Josh Taylor will fight Saturday night, and the winner will become the undisputed champion at 140 pounds. The only reason Ramirez and Taylor were able to win the belts in bouts to begin with in recent years was because the last undisputed
Posted on 05/19/2021 By: Hans Themistode For the first time since being knocked off the super welterweight division mountain top, Julian Williams will return to the ring. The Philadelphia native is set to take on fringe contender Brian Mendoza on June 26th, at the State Farm Arena, in Atlanta Georgia. For Williams (27-2-1, 16 KOs)
4:38 PM ET The fate of a proposed heavyweight unification match between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua could be greatly determined in the next two days. In a letter to Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn on Wednesday, the WBO ordered Hearn to “show cause” within 48 hours why the sanctioning body should not force Joshua (24-1,
Feature • Issue • Premium John Dennen speaks to WBC and WBO super-lightweight titlist Jose Ramirez about the fights of his life HE still remembers the feeling. One hand being raised, the other clutching a huge trophy. Hundreds of faces all around him, all looking at him, all applauding him. He had won his first
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