Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor weighed in Friday afternoon, both coming in under the weight limit at 139.6 pounds each. The fight is now officially set, with Jose Ramirez’ WBC and WBO and Josh Taylor’s IBF and WBA belts at stake (Saturday, May 22, 8 pm ET, ESPN and ESPN+). There were no major fireworks
Month: May 2021
News James Chance/Getty Images Ahead of his June 5 comeback, Daniel Dubois opens up about the loss to Joe Joyce, the subsequent decisions he made as he twice changed trainers and that odd interim title that’s on the line against Bogdan Dinu. By Matt Christie IT wasn’t supposed to be this way for Daniel Dubois.
Opinion We ask a panel of experts how they see Josh Taylor vs Jose Ramirez going Thomas StalkerFought Taylor as an amateurI pick Taylor to win on points. I feel he is all round the better fighter. Taylor was only a baby when I boxed him twice, now he has his man strength. He has
Opinion Ten current pro standouts who boxed at the 2012 Olympics OLEKSANDR USYKGifted Ukrainian Usyk won a gold medal in the heavyweight category at the 2012 Olympic Games, before going on to earn undisputed status at cruiserweight as a professional. He is now targeting pro heavyweight glory. ERROL SPENCE JNRAfter reaching the quarter-final stage at
Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez saw his quickest night at the office in more than six years. The former title challenger picked up his second straight win, following a 4th round stoppage of Mexico’s Armando Torres. Their Telemundo-televised main event ended with Torres turning away during the middle of an exchange, prompting the referee to call a
Posted on 05/21/2021 By: Hans Themistode The heavyweight division was slowly evolving from a jumbled mess to a much clearer picture. By all accounts, WBC/Ring Magazine titlist, Tyson Fury, was set to take on unified champion Anthony Joshua this coming Summer. Those plans, of course, were recently derailed as former belt holder Deontay Wilder has
6:18 PM ET Manny Pacquaio and Errol Spence Jr. made headlines on Friday when they announced one of the biggest fights in recent years. Pacquiao, 62-7-2, 39 KOs), 42, of General Santos City, Philippines, boxing’s only eight-division world champion, will face Spence (27-0, 21 KOs), 31, of Desoto, Texas, the only unified welterweight champion, on
Update (5:51 pm ET): PBC and FOX have confirmed the fight is official Despite Mikey Garcia’s best efforts to secure a clash with “The Fighting Senator,” Manny Pacquiao now claims that he’ll face unified WBC/IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. on an August 21st FOX PPV. The fight will end a 25-month-layoff for the multi-division
News Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions As the big fight everyone was talking about collapses, Manny Pacquiao delivers a contest with Errol Spence that no one was expecting WHILE the big fight everybody was talking about, Anthony Joshua-Tyson Fury, was falling apart, a great fight nobody was expecting was being made. Manny Pacquiao will fight Errol
Eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao took to social media on Friday and announced that he’s fighting WBC, IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence on August 21 in Las Vegas, in a Fox Sports Pay-Per-View main event. Pacquiao, 42-years-old, has been out of the ring since July of 2019 – when he won a tough twelve
Posted on 05/21/2021 By: Sean Crose “I think he’s kind of cheap, to be honest,” said WBC and WBO super lightweight titlist Jose Ramirez. Fresh from a face off, the 28 year old undefeated Texan, known as “Jaguar,” was referring to the man he had just stood nose to nose with, WBA and IBF super
7:41 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Not all championships are created equally. Even in boxing, with the most legitimate belts swimming in an ocean of trinket titles, this is true. A fighter can sometimes stumble into becoming a champion if the matchmaking is good enough or the circumstances are favorable. That’s not the case with
(May 1, 2021) Sensational unbeaten super welterweight Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora (17-0-1, 12 KOs) won a close-quarters war via fourth-round stoppage over Jorge “El Demonio” Cota (30-5, 27 KOs) in their WBC Super Welterweight Title Eliminator. “I’m extremely grateful to fight in front of the fans tonight,” said Fundora. “It was fun to hear
Felix Cash dismantled Denzel Bentley in three rounds to add the British middleweight title to the Commonwealth title he already held, at York Hall on Saturday 24th April. 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 Boxing Facebook Group ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/groups/BTSportBoxing/ Follow
Saturday night’s fight between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor will be for every relevant world title at 140 lbs, with Ramirez defending the WBC and WBO titles, and Taylor the IBF and WBA, plus the Ring Magazine championship if that adds something for you. This is a can’t-miss fight for boxing fans, with the potential
LAS VEGAS – Jose Ramirez was an unfulfilled fighter when he left Las Vegas late last August. The unbeaten WBC/WBO 140-pound champion got past mandatory challenger Viktor Postol, yet Ramirez wasn’t the least bit pleased with his performance. Ramirez realizes he is capable of much more than he showed versus Ukraine’s Postol, who lost a
Posted on 05/20/2021 By: Sean Crose “One fight goes bye bye for a while and another fight is taking its place.” So says Bob Arum, Top Rank honcho and promoter of Tyson Fury, in a Thursday interview with iFL TV. Arum is referring Saturday’s fight between Jose Ramirez and Josh Taylor for the undisputed super
7:33 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN A couple of weeks ago, a once-great champion and a YouTuber held a news conference to announce their “fight” in Miami. The YouTuber’s brother, also a YouTuber, confronted the retired fighter and snatched his baseball cap. “Gotcha hat!” he said, before running away. This was widely interpreted as the work
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