7:27 PM ET Associated Press LONDON — Anthony Joshua will defend his heavyweight titles against Oleksandr Usyk on Sept. 25 in London. Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, made the announcement Friday. Joshua, holder of the WBA, IBF, and WBO titles, was to have an all-British showdown with Tyson Fury this summer, but a legal ruling in
Month: June 2021
We already know that Terence “Bud” Crawford is set to defend his WBO welterweight title in October, and now Ryan O’Hara is reporting that the opponent will “likely” be current junior welterweight contender Jose Zepeda. Crawford (37-0, 28 KO) has taken some increasingly harsh criticism over the last year or two, because while he’s a
Former pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko is ready for the next chapter. Eight months after losing an undisputed lightweight title match to Teofimo Lopez, “Loma” returns Saturday night in a 12-round lightweight bout against Japanese contender Masayoshi Nakatani at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round middleweight co-feature, undefeated sensation Janibek “Qazaq
Posted on 06/25/2021 By: Sean Crose At 10 PM eastern time on Saturday, Vasyl Lomachenko will return to the ring for the first time since his decision loss to Teofimo Lopez in a high profile lightweight title bout last year. This time, the fighter known as Loma will be taking on Japan’s Masayoshi Nakatani. This
Vasiliy Lomachenko and Masayoshi Nakatani made weight for tomorrow night’s ESPN+ main event, as did the rest of the fighters on the Top Rank card. Lomachenko (14-2, 10 KO) and Nakatani (19-1, 13 KO) are set for a 12-round fight in the lightweight division, and both came in under the 135 lb limit. Lomachenko was
Two heavyweight kings are set for a third world title showdown as undefeated WBC world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury puts his title on the line against former longtime heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder Saturday, July 24 live on Pay-Per-View. ????: http://pbcham.ps/FightNight-072421 #DeontayWilder #TysonFury #FuryWilder3 Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP
Zach Parker is one of the best kept secrets in boxing… until now. He blew away our BT Sport audiences on his debut on the channel. He blasted through Vaughn Alexander in two rounds on March 26th. Learn about the man in line to face Canelo, with the whole of Derby behind him. He’s next
Ricardo Sandoval has come a long way since the days of fighting in dimly-lit and half-filled venues in Mexico. Despite the uncertainty of where his career was headed early on in his career, Sandoval now has the backing of a major promoter and is on the cusp of becoming one of the top flyweights in
Posted on 06/24/2021 By: Sean Crose “I want to fight @mikeygarcia NEXT. He says he want the fight, I want the fight, his brother Robert wants the fight, my side wants the fight, the Mexican fans want the fight, the people in New Orleans want the fight, the English fans want the fight. MAKE IT
7:59 AM ET Brett Okamoto Close ESPN Staff Writer MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Eric Woodyard LAS VEGAS — One fight can change a lot in boxing, a sport in which it’s not uncommon to fight only twice a year. In the case of Vasiliy Lomachenko,
Today at 2 pm ET streaming live in the video above, Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Mario Barrios will hit the scales and weigh in for tomorrow’s Showtime pay-per-view, along with the six fighters featured over three fights on the undercard. Davis (24-0, 23 KO) and Barrios (26-0, 17 KO) have a 140 lb limit, the
Former world champion Anthony Crolla is backing Vasiliy Lomachenko to return in sensational fashion on Saturday night, when he returns to the ring against dangerous Masayoshi Nakatani in Las Vegas. The contest will be the first for Lomachenko since suffering a twelve round decision loss to Teofimo Lopez in their unification clash last October. Nakatani
Posted on 06/24/2021 By: Hans Themistode David Benavidez and Jermall Charlo flat out don’t like each other. The two have spent the past several months throwing verbal haymakers at one another through social media and whenever a microphone is present. Although Charlo campaigns at a lower weight class, the WBC middleweight titlist expressed a desire
Feature • Issue • Premium JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images Behind the scenes with Tim Bradley as he rematches Manny Pacquiao in 2014. By Thomas Hauser SHORTLY after one o’clock on the afternoon of April 10, 2014, Manny Pacquiao concluded a series of satellite interviews that were conducted in Section 118 of the MGM Grand Garden Arena
Issue • Premium • Preview Mikey Williams/Top Rank Vasiliy Lomachenko, despite his illustrious career, has it all to prove again when he takes on Nakatani in Las Vegas, writes Matt Christie THIS time last year Vasiliy Lomachenko was considered untouchable. Then he lost a fight to Teofimo Lopez in October and it’s almost as if
Issue • Premium • Preview John Dennen previews Gervonta Davis vs Mario Barrios GERVONTA DAVIS could end up calling himself a super-lightweight champion by the end of this weekend. That would be to erase the real achievements of Josh Taylor, who unified all four of the major belts at 140lbs with his recent victory over
In this video interview captured by Fight Hype, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya discusses his upcoming fight against Vitor Belfort and his plans to continue fighting after that, looking to make what he calls the biggest comeback in the history of the sport. De La Hoya says if he beats Belfort, he’ll next
Four-time world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis and WBA Super Lightweight Champion Mario “El Azteca” Barrios went face-to-face Thursday at the final press conference before they meet in the SHOWTIME PPV main event this Saturday, June 26 from the award-winning State Farm Arena in Atlanta in a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Amanda Westcott, Sean
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