7:52 AM ET Josh Taylor made a big statement in May, when he defeated Jose Ramirez to win all four major junior welterweight belts. Taylor had another opportunity to show the world that his victory wasn’t just a one-off this past weekend, when he faced mandatory challenger Jack Catterall. But while Taylor won a split
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Now that we’re all set for Tyson Fury’s upcoming April 23rd WBC heavyweight title defense against Dillian Whyte, Fury is ready to get down to the business. Yesterday, Fury had to hold stage at the opening press conference all by his lonesome (with Whyte not in attendance), and not long after Fury plainly spoke to
News GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images ‘This is our home. What would you do if someone gets into your house? You defend it. What else?’ says Wladimir Klitschko, alongside his brother Vitali, the mayor of Kyiv IT is extraordinary to see major figures from the boxing world, past and present, staying in Ukraine during the Russian invasion
WBA Super Middleweight Champion David Morrell Jr. delivered another knockout in front of his adopted hometown crowd as he stopped Alantez Fox in the fourth round of the FOX PBC Fight Night main event and on FOX Deportes Saturday night from The Armory in Minneapolis. The 23-year-old Morrell (6-0, 5 KOs), a prolific Cuban amateur
Speaking before the press conference for his fight with Dillian Whyte at Wembley, Tyson Fury explained why this may be his last fight and suggested the much-talked-about fight with Anthony Joshua may never happen. Get a BT Sport Monthly Pass now! – http://bit.ly/BTSportMonthlyPass Twitter: http://twitter.com/btsport Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/btsport Instagram:http://instagram.com/btsport Website: http://sport.bt.com
News James Chance/Getty Images ‘Both fighters are going for the knockout and when I land the Lancaster Bomber on his jaw it is going to be over,’ declared the champion ahead of Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte tickets going on sale DESPITE Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte tickets only going on sale today, their April
Opinion Lawrence Lustig After Taylor vs Catterall we also ask an expert panel whether the current scoring system is an effective system Matthew MacklinFormer European champI have no idea. Saturday night for me was a shocker. I thought they got it wrong. 99.9% of people had it for Catterall, even if they had it closer.
Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez and Julio Cesar Martinez took part in a media workout ahead of their clash at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego on Saturday night, live worldwide on DAZN. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Martinez (18-1 14 KOs) moves up to 115lbs and does so against a legend of the weight in Chocolatito (50-3
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Hans Themistode There was a bitter look of disappointment plastered across the face of Gennadiy Golovkin. The IBF middleweight titlist and future Hall of Famer had long been hoping to share the ring with fellow middleweight belt holder, Ryota Murata. The two were originally scheduled to face off on December 29th,
9:41 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Ryota Murata is all that stands in the way of a third fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin. And now, there’s finally a date for the middleweight title unification between Golovkin and Murata. They’ll meet April 9 at Saitama Arena in Saitama, Japan, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. GGG-Murata
Three months after COVID restrictions in Japan forced a postponement, we may finally have a new date for the middleweight unification between Gennadiy Golovkin and Ryota Murata. ESPN’s Mike Coppinger reports the fight will happen in Saitama, Japan on April 9th. Sources: The Gennadiy Golovkin-Ryota Murata middleweight title unification is set for April 9 in
Oscar De La Hoya, CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, would like to see Ryan Garcia and Canelo Alvarez settle their social media dispute by stepping in the ring – at least several years down the line at a catch-weight. At the moment, Garcia and Canelo are very far apart in weight. Canelo is the undisputed
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Sean Crose Give heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte this – he’s determined not to let WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury get inside his head before the two men meet on April 23’d. What other reason, one might wonder, could there have possibly been for Whyte to have avoided Tuesday’s press
3:40 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Tyson Fury found himself in a familiar role on Tuesday in London. The heavyweight champion carried the promotion ahead of his trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder last year, as the challenger refused to answer questions from the media at the kick-off news conference. And now, for the second consecutive bout,
One day after the WBA announced a series of sanctions on Russian and Belarusian fighters, its fellow alphabet organizations released their own restrictions, namely a resolution to “not certify any championship fights involving boxers from Russia and Belarus.” The announcement is desperately short on specifics, such as whether fighters originally from those countries but now
Pay-per-view customers in the United States won’t be restricted to the ESPN+ platform if they want to purchase the Tyson Fury-Dillian Whyte heavyweight title fight. Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, told BoxingScene.com that Fury-Whyte will be made available through traditional cable and satellite operators in the United States, not just via ESPN+, the network’s $7-per-month streaming
Posted on 03/01/2022 By: Hans Themistode Jermall Charlo was closer than ever to landing a mega showdown against Canelo Alvarez. The Houstonian power puncher was on the front end of a two-fight deal presented to Alvarez from PBC’s Al Haymon, the promotional banner in which Charlo fights under, along with a second showdown against David
10:41 AM ET The British Boxing Board of Control has confirmed it will investigate the scoring of Josh Taylor’s split-point victory over Jack Catterall on Saturday. Taylor controversially retained his WBC, IBF, WBA and WBO junior welterweight titles at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow, despite challenger Catterall flooring the 31-year-old in the eighth round and