Month: October 2021

7:38 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury was jovial, sarcastic and helpful as he worked with the young heavyweights training alongside him at Warriors Boxing Gym in Hollywood, Florida. Just days earlier, the 6-foot-9 “Gypsy King” found out that his dream fight — an undisputed heavyweight championship bout with Anthony Joshua — wasn’t going to
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Posted on 10/06/2021 By: Sean Crose “They bring this woman in from the UK,” said Bob Arum of Fox’ Kate Abdo after a Wednesday press conference to promote Saturday’s Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder heavyweight title match, “and she’s slanting all the press conference to Wilder.” Abdo wanted the two men to face off, but Arum prevented
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10:04 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury unloaded on Deontay Wilder at Wednesday’s news conference, taking aim at the challenger’s unfounded accusations that Fury doctored his gloves in their February 2020 rematch that “The Gypsy King” won via seventh-round TKO. The lead-up to the trilogy bout has been so heated
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Artur Beterbiev will return to his adopted hometown following a five-year absence for his next fight. BoxingScene.com has learned that Beterbiev’s mandated light heavyweight title defense against American Marcus Browne will headline Top Rank’s December 17 card from Bell Centre in Montreal. Staten Island’s Browne is the mandatory challenger for Beterbiev’s WBC 175-pound championship. ESPN+
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5:13 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The IBF on Wednesday found Triller in default of its contract obligation to stage the Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos undisputed lightweight championship fight on Oct. 4 and awarded the rights to the bout to Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing. “We will of course be proceeding with the fight and are very excited
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Eddie Hearn announced today that Matchroom Boxing would take over promotion of Teofimo Lopez’ defense of his world titles against the IBF’s challenger George Kambosos, after the IBF ruled that Triller had defaulted on its purse bid after yet again trying to move the date of the fight. This latest time, Triller tried to postpone
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