6:49 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 Chantelle Cameron hopes a successful defence of her world junior welterweight titles on Saturday sets up a megafight against either Katie Taylor or Kali
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Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition with Don Moore will happen today in Abu Dhabi, no longer on the helipad atop the hotel in Dubai, which kinda makes it just another exhibition fight and one that isn’t even on a helipad, but either way we’ll be here with live coverage for you. You can buy the show at
Someone will lose a fight for the first time when Janibek Alimkhanuly and Danny Dignum square off for the interim WBO Middleweight title in the main event Saturday, May 21, on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+ at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. (photos by Mikey Williams) The fight card, promoted by Top Rank,
Posted on 05/20/2022 Daniel Blancas (2-0, 2 KOs) looked incredibly confident as he walked through the ropes tonight to take on his inexperienced opponent. In the opening fight of Jean Pascal’s return to the ring against Fanlong Meng, both Blancas and Heinrich Coorssen Caceres (0-1) waged an all-out war. Caceres, to his credit, refused to
9:00 AM ET For the first time in nearly 10 years, Holly Holm is thinking about professional boxing. To be clear, Holm’s primary focus is still very much on MMA and recapturing the UFC bantamweight championship that she won in 2015 and surrendered in 2016. Holm (14-5) faces Ketlen Vieira in the main event of
#BenavidezLemieux Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-052122 Watch Live as fighters on the PBC on SHOWTIME fight card, headlined by Two-Time World Champion David Benavidez and former world champion David Lemieux, weigh in ahead of their respective bouts on SHOWTIME Saturday, May 21 from Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. #Weigh-in #LiveStream Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info.
Tyson Fury gives his snap reactions and thoughts to the face-off and press conference with Dillian Whyte and make it clear his respect for his opposition ahead of Saturday’s fight. Buy Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte | Saturday 23rd April | BT Sport Box Office – https://www.bt.com/sport/box-office/ Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube :arrow_right:
Billy Joe Saunders could return to action later this year, at least if Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn gets what he’d like to see. Hearn told talkSPORT that he has been in touch with Saunders’ team if not Saunders himself: “We’re talking to him about possible fights in September [or] October. He has gotta get back
Meng Fanlong is prepared for a version of Jean Pascal that once ruled the light heavyweight division. The task at hand for the unbeaten southpaw is to ensure that version of his opponent never surfaces when they meet this Friday at ProBox Events Center in Plant City, Florida (ProBoxTV.com, 7:30 p.m. ET). “Jean Pascal is
8:51 AM ET David Benavidez wasn’t surprised when he saw one of the biggest boxing upsets in recent years. He had believed for years that even a prime version of Canelo Alvarez could be beaten, and it came to fruition on May 7 when Alvarez, pushing himself into a new weight class, failed to capture
Meng Fanlong will face Jean Pascal in tonight’s ProBox TV main event from Plant City, Florida, with the show kicking off at 7 pm ET and also featuring the quarterfinal round of an eight-man “last chance” tournament at 140 lbs. We’ll be here with live updates and discussion in the comments section of this post.
Jean Pascal spent about six months last year in what the former WBC light heavyweight champion called “a very dark place.” The performance-enhancing drug scandal that cost Pascal his rematch with Badou Jack almost a year ago tarnished the Quebec-based boxer’s legacy. Testing positive for four banned substances made skeptics question whether Pascal, who had
Preview Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images David Lemieux appears disadvantged in all departments bar brute force against David Benavidez WITH world super-middleweight champion Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez deciding what comes next following his recent loss to Dmitry Bivol up at 175lbs, the WBC has wasted no time in creating an interim belt at 168 because it’s been a
Preview Lewis Storey/Getty Images Danny Dignum takes a huge step up when he faces Zhanibek Alimkhanuly IN a curious battle of southpaws the esteemed Zhanibek Alimkhanuly, 11-0 (7), takes on 30-year-old Danny Dignum over 12 middleweight rounds. Alimkhanuly, ranked number seven at middleweight by BN, is an Olympic quarter-finalist (2016) and winner of the Worlds
Issue • Premium • Preview Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing South Londoners Joshua Buatsi and Craig Richards meet in what promises to be an excellent battle at the O2, writes John Dennen DID Craig Richards do a better job against Dmitry Bivol than Canelo Álvarez? is a question that two weeks ago no one thought they’d ask.
Derek Chisora recently shared an Instagram photo showing him signing a contract that, if you squint a bit, reveals that he’ll return to the ring on July 9th against Adam Kownacki. Eddie Hearn confirmed the news to iFL TV , though he did note that Kownacki has yet to sign. For a fight between guys
Unbeaten two-time world champion David “El Bandera Roja” Benavídez and former world champion David Lemieux went face-to-face at the final press conference Thursday as they previewed their 12-round showdown for the vacant Interim WBC Super Middleweight Title which headlines live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, May 21 from Gila River Arena in Glendale, Ariz. in a
Posted on 05/19/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury has said that he is retiring. He’s said it before and there is frankly a very good chance he’ll say it again. Fury is unquestionably a likeable dude, but he likes to talk off the cuff. He also tends to contradict himself, either from changing his mind