Month: November 2021

7:49 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Terence “Bud” Crawford is used to hearing the question. No matter how impressive his in-ring performances have been, despite becoming an undisputed junior welterweight champion and winning world titles in three divisions, the question is always the same. “Who has Crawford fought?” Crawford has long been recognized
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Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Al Bello/Getty Images Galahad and Harper are the latest fighters from Great Britain to lose in big upsets. Steve Bunce on the upset club KID GALAHAD, Duke McKenzie, Terri Harper and Lennox Lewis are all part of a small club of British fighters who lost their world belts in
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Issue • Premium • Preview Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Declan Taylor examines DAZN’s latest offering and picks out a potential cracker at flyweight as the best bout on the heaving card top by Demetrius Andrade-Jason Quigley THE reports of DAZN’s death in America have been greatly exaggerated. Although the former chairman of the streaming service recently admitted
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After controversially defeating Maxim Vlasov for the WBO light heavyweight title, Joe Smith Jr. turned down a unification clash with Artur Beterbiev in favor of a two-fight deal that would see him fight mandatory challenger Umar Salamov before a big-money bout with fellow New Yorker Daniel Jacobs. That first bout, originally scheduled for October 30th,
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LAS VEGAS – Shawn Porter doesn’t just view his showdown with Terence Crawford on Saturday night as an opportunity for individual achievement. The former IBF/WBC welterweight champion considers their 12-round welterweight title fight as a huge chance in the battle between Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions and Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. Porter is affiliated
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#DavisCruz Fight Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-120521 Five-time world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis defends his WBA Lightweight Championship against hard-hitting contender Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz live on SHOWTIME PPV on Sunday, December 5 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles in a Premier Boxing Champions event. The pay-per-view begins at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and features rising super welterweight
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Canelo Alvarez reveals the exact conversation he had in the ring with Caleb Plant as they put their bad blood to one side and showed respect to each other. 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/
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4:06 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Keyshawn Davis and Richard Torrez Jr., who both claimed silver medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, have signed multiyear promotional deals with Top Rank, multiple sources told ESPN. Davis competed as a lightweight while Torrez fought in the super heavyweight division. The 22-year-old Davis will make his
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Shawn Porter predicted he’ll become the first fighter to beat Terence Crawford when they meet November 20 in Las Vegas. Thus far, though, Porter determined that Jose Benavidez Jr. gave Crawford the most difficult fight of his 13-year pro career. Crawford stopped a then-unbeaten Benavidez by 12th-round technical knockout in their fight for Crawford’s WBO
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