Issue • News • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Ahead of projected July 23 rematch with Oleksandr Usyk, Anthony Joshua set to bring in some assistance for new coach Angel Fernandez, writes Declan Warrington ANTHONY JOSHUA is to appoint someone “old and experienced” to work alongside Angel Fernandez in preparation for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
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Tuesday is upon us, and the latest episode of Prophets of Goom is here! This week John and myself (I’m Scott) take a look at another busy weekend ahead, including a major sleeper matchup in Spain on DAZN, David Benavidez and Janibek Alimkhanuly fighting for interim belts on Showtime and ESPN, respectively, Buatsi-Richards, John’s insistence
Promoter Eddie Hearn fully expects a rematch to take place between Mexican superstar Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol. The question right now, is whether it happens next or in 2023. Earlier this month, Bivol outboxed Canelo over twelve rounds to secure a dominant unanimous decision in a big upset. Canelo
Friday’s Golden Ring show in Aguascalientes, Mexico, which will see a number of Cuba’s top amateurs make their professional debuts, won’t feature one of the country’s most prized pupils. El Nuevo Herald reports that Tokyo 2020 lightweight gold medalist Andy Cruz has been pulled from the show after what his chief trainer called a drop
Last week, Amir Khan had a chance encounter with Floyd Mayweather in Dubai. Mayweather was scheduled to have an exhibition fight last Saturday in Dubai, but the event was canceled when the UAE President passed away. Khan, who frequents Dubai on a regular basis, announced his retirement from the sport a few days ago. During
Posted on 05/16/2022 By: Sean Crose If you watched Showtime’s coverage of the brilliant Jermell Taylor-Brian Castano rematch on Saturday night, you might well have caught Jaron “Boots” Ennis’ two round destruction of the previously undefeated Custio Clayton. If you happened to witness that brief battle, it was likely you were impressed with Ennis’ performance.
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Lennox Lewis offers his verdict on what went down at the press conference, including the reaction of John Fury during the face-off. #FuryWhyte 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 ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter
Issue • Opinion • Premium Lawrence Lustig/Boxxer In his own words Amir Khan explains why he has retired from boxing WHEN I was in training camp, I got injuries in training camp but I didn’t want to tell anyone about it because I didn’t want people to think, ‘Amir’s making excuses.’ I tore my rotator
Fight Hub TV’s Marcos Villegas immediately caught up with junior middleweight Tim Tszyu following Jermell Charlo’s undisputed title unification against Brian Castano over the weekend. Tszyu didn’t hide his enthusiasm for what was a truly exciting fight, and says he’s eager to challenge Charlo, believing he has a better chance to do damage to the
Dmitry Bivol was an interested observer during this past weekend’s light heavyweight title eliminator, though not necessarily in search of his next opponent. The reigning WBA light heavyweight titlist continues to bask in the glow of his career-best, unanimous decision win over four-division champ Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez earlier this month in Las Vegas. Bivol (20-0,
Saturday was a big day in boxing, with Jermell Charlo becoming undisputed king at 154 lbs, Martin Bakole upsetting Tony Yoka, Sergey Kovalev making a successful cruiserweight debut, and a 200 lb Zurdo Ramirez trampling Dominic Boesel, but it was also the anniversary of something Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields both remember well. 10 years
German heavyweight Agit Kabayel (21-0 / 23-2) was a “surprise guest” at the SES’ show in Magdeburg on May 14. Kabayel floored Czech journeyman Pavel Sour four times and won on a first round stoppage. Kabayel has been official challenger for the EBU title a long time now and had for almost that long Marco
Posted on 05/14/2022 By: Sean Crose The undefeated super bantamweight Kevin Gonzalez appeared on Saturday’s Charlo-Castano 2 undercard at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The 24-0-1 Mexican faced Puerto Rico’s 19-2 Emanuel Rivera in a scheduled 10 round affair. Rivera came out aggressively in the first, throwing heavy leather. The fighters traded
7:53 AM ET Britain’s former light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan announced his retirement from boxing on Friday. Khan (34-6, 21 KOs), Olympic lightweight silver medallist at the 2004 Athens Games when he was 17 years old, won the WBA light-welter belt from Ukrainian Andriy Kotelnyk in 2009 and added the IBF title in 2011 when
DAZN and Social Media, 8:00 am ET, Buatsi vs Richards press conference. YouTube/Facebook, 3:00 pm ET, Benavidez vs Lemieux press conference. DAZN and Social Media, 8:00 am ET, Buatsi vs Richards weigh-in. DAZN, 2:00 pm ET, Kerman Lejarraga vs JJ Metcalf. We often don’t do live coverage for these Matchroom shows in Spain (or Italy),
Los Angeles, CA - In the main event, fighting in his first fight as a cruiserweight and coming off a 31-month layoff, three time light heavyweight world champion Sergey Kovalev, (35-4-1, 29 KOs), won a dominant ten-round unanimous decision over the previously undefeated Tervel Pulev, (16-1, 13 KOs). Scores were 98-92 twice and 97-93. Working behind
Posted on 05/14/2022 By: Hans Themistode Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez has begged, pleaded, and urged the top names at 175 pounds to step into the ring against him. Although he has yet to lure the current titleholders to ink their names on the dotted line, Ramirez may have forced their hand. The unbeaten 30-year-old from Mazatlan,