News Andrew Couldridge/Pool/Getty Images It might be a consolation prize but the excellent fight between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk is official and coming to a London stadium, writes Matt Christie WE have spent the last few weeks grumbling about the sanctioning bodies – rightly so, too – but now and again they do create
Month: July 2021
Rankings go up on Mondays at 10 am ET. This week I’m late (and barely even on Monday!) because I spent a wonderful Sunday evening into early Monday morning in the hospital, and spent most of Monday just kind of recovering and shaking things off for the time being. Ranked fights this week: Heavyweight: (7)
Amateur James Chance/Getty Images As well as listing the top seeds, here we pick out other Olympic gold medal contenders Men’s 91&kgs Top seed: Bakhodir Jalolov (UZB)Other contenders: Kamshybek Kunkabayev (KAZ), Frazer Clarke (GB) Men’s 91kgs Top seed: Muslim Gadzhimagomedov (RUS)Other contenders: Vassiliy Levit (KAZ), David Nyika (NZL) Men’s 81kgs Top seed: Bekzad Nurdauletov (KAZ)Other
Issue • News • Premium Sam Maxwell hopes to come through against Ennis Brown for the British and Commonwealth titles, writes John Dennen SAM MAXWELL has had a hard five years working his way through the professional ranks. He had been a talented amateur on the Great Britain squad, a Commonwealth medallist who was overshadowed
Every now and then, the tinkering mood just hits. Especially when I’m feeling bored, introspective, forward-thinking … whatever, and I begin pondering ways in which I can make the things I genuinely enjoy even better. For a lot of guys, that probably means loading up the pickup truck and heading to the nearest Lowe’s or
Posted on 07/19/2021 By: Sean Crose “Pacquiao is something of a Renaissance man,” the Washington Post stated about Manny Pacquiao on Monday. “He was a congressman, and now a senator. He’s won 12 major world boxing titles. He’s won titles in eight weight divisions— from flyweight to welterweight. He’s a pop and ballad singer (He’s recorded his own ring
News broke earlier this month that Cleveland natives Charles Conwell and Montana Love would join Jake Paul vs. Charles Woodley at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse on August 29th. Now, Coppinger reports that Love will face former IBF champion Ivan Baranchyk. Belarus’ Baranchyk (20-2, 13 KO) hasn’t seen action since October of last year, when he and
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman had no issue with the overall outcome in Saturday’s high stakes junior middleweight unification between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano. The two boxers staked their titles to crown an undisputed champion at 154-pounds at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. After twelve exciting rounds, the judges were not
Posted on 07/19/2021 By: Oliver McManus What should have been remembered as a fantastically ferocious fight between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano, has been cruelly overshadowed by an example of incompetent judging. A fight that was set to return an undisputed champion at 154lbs suddenly turned into a hotbed of disputes: primarily around Nelson Vazquez’
WBA, WBC and IBF Super Middleweight World Champion Jermell Charlo and WBO Super Middleweight World Champion Brian Castano fought to a split decision draw in their dramatic all-action battle for undisputed status at 154-pounds on July 17, 2021, live on SHOWTIME from AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. #CharloCastano Fight Night Recap: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-071721 #Highlights #PBConSHOWTIME
Joe Joyce is a man of many talents, one of them being, an ability to create fine art. The Juggernaut take us through his latest painting, which shows his victory over Daniel Dubois in November 2020. He has three spare canvases at home and Takam, AJ and Fury could very well be his next three
During the post-fight interview following the split decision draw between Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano, Charlo took to the dais to discuss his thoughts on the fight, saying that he believes he did enough to take the win over Brian Castano. Check out some of what Charlo has to say to media reporters below. Charlo
Tuesday will mark the second anniversary of eight-division world champion Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao’s dethroning of then undefeated WBA welterweight “super” champion Keith Thurman. Manny, at age 40, became the oldest man to win a welterweight title. But it was 20 years ago — June 23, 2001 to be exact — that Manny made his
Posted on 07/18/2021 By: Hans Themistode Unlike previous opponents, Jermell Charlo found Brian Castano a much more difficult combatant to deal with. The two stood mostly toe to toe at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas last night. On the line, was Charlo’s WBC, WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine 154 pound titles – while
Following his stoppage win last night over Anthony Yigit on Showtime, lightweight prospect Rolando Romero came to a conclusion: It’s time for him to go up to the 140 lb division. “I need to go to 140. It’s my natural weight class. I feel I’ll be a lot stronger,” Romero said after all was said
Issue • Opinion • Premium Tris Dixon watches The Kings, the brand new docuseries on Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and Duran YOU know I have no love for Showtime and I f**king hate [Showtime’s head of boxing Stephen] Espinoza, but this is the true history of our sport, not that YouTuber s**t,” admitted Bob Arum. It
History • Issue • Premium CURTIS COMPTON/AFP/Getty Images July 19, 2021, marks the 25th anniversary of a historic moment, when Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic cauldron, writes Thomas Hauser SHORTLY before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, I was on the telephone with Muhammad Ali. “Will you be going to the Olympics?” I asked. “I can’t
Former two division world champion Ricky Hatton fears that Tyson Fury’s potential unification showdown with Anthony Joshua could be “doomed” due to numerous delays. Fury and Joshua appeared to be on the path of a unification fight on a date in August in Saudi Arabia. However, an arbitrator ordered Fury to honor a rematch clause
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