1:07 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Dmitry Bivol and Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez have agreed to a deal for a WBA light heavyweight title fight that will take place Nov. 5 in the United Arab Emirates, the organization announced. The rights to the fight were scheduled to be auctioned off at a purse bid on Sunday afternoon
Month: August 2022
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Dmitry Bivol and mandatory challenger Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez are set to square off in less than three months, after the WBA recently ordered the fight has to be next, and turned down Bivol’s request to face Joshua Buatsi instead. Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn says the fight is “done for November 5th,” with full details to come
In the ninth round of his heavyweight title rematch against Anthony Joshua, Oleksandr Usyk looked like he was headed toward a heartbreaking ending. After 21 rounds of fighting, the hulking Joshua had finally been able to impose his physical strength on Usyk and was grinding him down with a sustained body attack. For the first
Posted on 08/20/2022 By: Sean Crose It may end up having been the single most relevant fight of 2022. After winning the WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight titles off of Anthony Joshua close to a year ago, Oleksandr Usyk successfully defended those belts against the same Joshua in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Saturday. It was
2:25 PM ET Anthony Joshua has said he has the “hunger” to fight again and plans to return to the ring in December following a second straight loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Sunday. Usyk retained his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight titles with a split-decision win over Joshua, who fared better in the rematch
Anthony Joshua says he wants to return to the ring before the end of the year as he starts to target his route back to another world heavyweight title shot. Far from hiding after his split decision defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in Jeddah, Joshua turned up at the post-fight press conference and said he would
Oleksandr Usyk didn’t protest; what was left in the gas tank was used to force a confused smile as his latest victim grabbed what was left of the spotlight. An untimely, impassioned soliloquy gave the unified heavyweight champion time to take stock; time to catch his breath and attempt to unpick what he just achieved
Posted on 08/21/2022 By: Sean Crose The WBO featherweight champion Emanuel Navarrete, 35-1, defended his title Saturday evening against Eduardo Baez, 21-2-2, in a scheduled 12 round affair at San Diego’s Pechanga Arena. Navarrete was patient and fluid in the first while Baez largely played the role of aggressor. Both men traded heavy leather in
8:06 PM ET ESPN staff Oleksandr Usyk put his WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight world titles on the line in a rematch against former champion Anthony Joshua on Saturday. They first met in September 2021, when Usyk captured the titles in a unanimous decision victory over the former champion at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – In an IBF heavyweight final eliminator, Filip Hrgovic (15-0, 12 KOs) got off the floor and won a very close twelve round unanimous decision over Zhang Zhilei (24-1-1, 19 KOs). (photos by Mark Robinson) The scores were 115-112, 115-112 and 114-113 for Hrgovic. Hrgovic was landing well to the body of
Posted on 08/21/2022 By: Sean Crose The 28-2-1 super lightweight Omar Figueroa battled the16-2-1 Sergey Lipinets, in a scheduled 12 round WBC title eliminator on Saturday. The fight was the main event of a Showtime broadcast and was aired live from Hollywood, Florida. Lipinets landed to the body well in the first. Figueroa was aggressive
4:29 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Anthony Joshua’s career has recovered before from a world title defeat and it may do so again, but the former heavyweight champion will likely
Opinion Oleksandr Usyk shows his class while Anthony Josbhua shows improvement UKRAINE’S Oleksandr Usyk was never going to lose. Or, more accurately, he would do everything he possibly could to ensure he did not. After taking a break from fighting for his country against Russia, he again outpointed Anthony Joshua in their rematch and again
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Former world champions Omar Figueroa Jr. and Sergey Lipinets will battle in a 12-round WBC Super Lightweight title eliminator. Lipinets steps in for four-division champion Adrien Broner who withdrew from the main event due to personal issues. 📰: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-082022 #OmarFigueroa #SergeyLipinets #FigueroaLipinets Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US:
Giovani Santillan survived the toughest test of his career in a fight where the final scores didn’t come close to reflecting the action in the ring. San Diego’s own Santillan emerged victorious in a ten-round, unanimous decision win over Mexico’s Julio Luna. Judge Robert Hoyle (96-94) saw the bout for the close, competitive affair that
Posted on 08/20/2022 By: Sean Crose Three of the four major world heavyweight title belts were at stake Saturday as Oleksandr Usyk slipped inside the ring at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to face Anthony Joshua, the man he had won those belts from nearly a year earlier. Marketed as “Rage on the Red Sea,” the scheduled
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