Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Melina Pizano/Matchroom My love affair with New York began in a then-dangerous part of town alongside boxing royalty, writes Steve Bunce THERE was once a boxing gym above a McDonalds next to the Port Authority in New York City. That part of the city in February 1991 was squalid;
Month: May 2022
With junior middleweight champions Brian Castano and Jermall Charlo set to duke it out once again in a May 14 Showtime main event, Castano held a media workout today and spoke about what it’s going to take to make a clear and decisive win following their split draw last summer. “I’m very happy to be
Evan Holyfield (9-0, 6 KOs) from Atlanta GA and son of five time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, is preparing for his May 14 fight at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA. TRILLERVERZ 5 will be streamed live on Triller and Fite.tv. Evan is training in Colorado Springs. It’s the first time in his career
Posted on 05/03/2022 By: Hans Themistode Paul Devlin/SNS Group via Getty Images A look of despair and uncertainty was plastered onto the face of Josh Taylor following 12 hard-fought rounds against Jack Catterall. Pegged as a considerable favorite heading into their February 26th showdown, most were under the assumption that Taylor would waltz through the
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The immediate aftermath of Tyson Fury’s victory over Dillian Whyte. The Gypsy King was able to celebrate his emphatic title defence in front of 94,000 boxing fans in Wembley Stadium. 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 ➡️
As revealed about a month back, newly crowned IBF junior lightweight champion Kenichi Ogawa will make his inaugural defense on June 4th when he faces Joe Cordina in Cardiff. Ogawa’s (26-1-1, 18 KO) first title reign was both brief and controversial, as he won the belt via questionable decision over Tevin Farmer and lost it
The first two fights of Canelo Alvarez’s three-fight reunion with DAZN and Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing were revealed earlier this year. If the Mexican icon defeats Dmitry Bivol on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Alvarez will move back down from the 175-pound division to the 168-pound limit for his long-awaited third showdown
Posted on 05/03/2022 By: Hans Themistode Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images Although Shakur Stevenson is still in the infancy stages of his career, the former Olympic silver medalist believed that the world would soon realize his greatness. Following his most recent performance, Stevenson is now convinced that his name should now be mentioned
10:11 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN LAS VEGAS — Terence Crawford told ESPN he’ll be “surprised” if he doesn’t strike a deal to fight Errol Spence Jr. in 2022 for the undisputed welterweight championship. Crawford (38-0, 29 KOs) and Spence have been circling around each other for years as fans have lobbied for the matchup. Now
Issue • Opinion • Premium Ed Mulholland/Matchroom Jake Paul hogs the limelight, writes George Gigney in his boxing media review POST-FIGHT press conferences don’t often produce much in the way of major news or soundbites. It’s often a lot of “we’ll wait and see what’s next” and the fighters will have (usually) just gone through
History • Issue • Premium Universal/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images Miles Templeton pays tribute to Robert Cohen the recently departed former bantamweight king THE RECENT death of Robert Cohen seems to have gone under the radar in the sporting press. This Frenchman won the world bantamweight title in 1954 by beating Chamroem Songkitrat in a hard-fought 15-rounder in
Unification fever was everywhere in April with new partially unified titlists crowned at middleweight, welterweight, and Jr. lightweight on the men’s side and super middleweight and flyweight on the women’s. We’re not done yet. One of the best fights of 2021 came at Jr. middleweight, and it left us without a conclusion. One of the
Posted on 05/02/2022 By: Sean Crose The truth is the man could have gone the way of countless other Floyd Mayweather opponents, that way being the path to relative obscurity. After all, the pound for pound all time great nicknamed “Money” had made relatively easy work of the 23 year old red haired Mexican called
11:41 PM ET NEW YORK — As the seconds ticked down in their fight Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano stood in the middle of the ring, caring little about defending themselves or being in the proper stance. Hands were thrown constantly from both sides, one after another after another.
It’s Tuesday, so the latest episode of Prophets of Goom has arrived for its incredible fourth week here at Bad Left Hook, featuring John Hansen and myself, Scott Christ, looking back on a busy weekend in boxing, ahead to what’s coming, and more from the boxing world. This week, we’ll take that look forward to
Sergey “The Krusher” Kovalev (34-4, 29 KOs), living in Long Beach, CA, will fight Tervel Pulev in his cruiserweight debut on Saturday, May 14 at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, CA and will be streamed live on Triller and Fite.tv. Sergey is being trained by Buddy McGirt and his strength and conditioning coach is Teddy