Posted on 02/28/2022 By: Hans Themistode For the most part, Shakur Stevenson’s career has been on cruise control. The former 2016 Olympic silver medalist and two-division world titlist has made quick and easy work of his 17 career opponents. Yet, even with the relative ease in which he’s picked up his victories, the 24-year-old knows
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8:00 AM ET Timothy Bradley Jr. The result of Saturday’s undisputed junior welterweight championship fight between champion Josh Taylor and challenger Jack Catterall hasn’t sat well with me. The challenger did everything he was supposed to do to win, but the judges handed Taylor a split-decision victory. I watched the fight a second time on
Order #OrtizMartin NOW on FOX Sports PPV for only $39.99: https://pbcham.ps/OrtizMartinPPV-5 The new year will kick off with a heavyweight bang, as five exciting heavyweight matchups take center stage on a jam-packed FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View on New Year’s Day live from Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
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Earlier this week, we shared the news that former heavyweight champions Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko committed to defend their country against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now, former lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has joined the fight as well. A Facebook post from Lomachenko said: The Belgorod-Dnestrovsky Territorial Defense Battalion has been formed and armed. In the
(Video by Ryan Burton) – Erickson Lubin was ringside to watch late replacement Hector Garcia perform like the world champion he was substituting for on Saturday night, battering and dropping the highly touted Chris Colbert to earn a unanimous decision win in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight World Title Eliminator that headlined a thrilling Showtime
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose He goes by the nickname of PrimeTime and he’s one of the most closely watched fighters among today’s top crop of young guns. With an undefeated 16-0 record, the 25 year old Brooklyn native is now in position to move on to big things. In fact, he was supposed
6:01 PM 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 Lawrence Okolie successfully defended his WBO world cruiserweight title for a second time by a unanimous points decision, but was made to work for
Late replacement Hector Garcia performed like the world champion he was substituting for on Saturday night, battering and dropping the highly touted Chris Colbert to earn a unanimous decision win in a 12-round WBA super featherweight world title eliminator that headlined a thrilling Showtime tripleheader from The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Garcia
Posted on 02/26/2022 By: Sean Crose Boxing returned to the Showtime airwaves Saturday night as the cable network aired a card live from the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas featuring Chris “PrimeTime” Colbert versus Hector Garcia. First, however, the IBF super flyweight champion Jerwin Ancajas, 33-1-2, took on the undefeated, 13-0, Fernando Martinez in a scheduled
6:53 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Vasiliy Lomachenko, ESPN’s No. 8 pound-for-pound boxer, has joined a territorial defense battalion in Ukraine as the country attempts to fend off an invasion from Russia. The two-time Olympic gold medalist is shown armed in military fatigues in an image posted to his Facebook page on Sunday. The 34-year-old traveled
Lawrence Okolie didn’t get the knockout and didn’t have the most exciting fight, to put it mildly, but he retained his WBO cruiserweight title with a decision win over Michal Cieslak in London. Okolie took the cards on scores of 115-112, 116-111, and 117-110. Bad Left Hook had the fight 117-110 for Okolie. It was
Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas – In a WBA super featherweight eliminator, Hector Garcia (15-0, 10 KOs) took the fight on late notice and pulled off a stunner, as he dropped and outworked Chris Colbert (16-1, 6 KOs) over twelve rounds to secure a dominant twelve round unanimous decision. (photos by Stephanie Trapp, Ryan Hafey) The scores
Posted on 02/27/2022 By: Sean Crose Former junior welterweight titlist Viktor Postol, 31-3-0, appeared on Saturday’s Showtime card as he faced the undefeated 14-0 Gary Russell in a scheduled 10 round junior welterweight affair. This fight had a tragic element to it, as Postol’s wife and twin sons are currently stranded in war torn Ukraine.
2:34 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Chris Colbert, ESPN’s No. 2-ranked 130-pounder, was slated to challenge for his first world title on Saturday. But after the champion, Roger Gutierrez, tested positive for COVID-19, Colbert (16-1, 6 KOs) was set to stay busy against unheralded late replacement Hector Garcia. In the PBC on Showtime’s main event, Colbert,
#ColbertGarcia Fight Night Details: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-022622 Undefeated rising star Chris “Primetime” Colbert will square off against unbeaten Dominican Olympian Hector Luis Garcia in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight World Title Eliminator, live on SHOWTIME on Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 10pm ET/7pm PT. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast kicks off at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT
Lawrence Okolie will make the second defense of his WBO cruiserweight title today in London, taking on Poland’s Michal Cieslak in a 12-round main event from O2 Arena. The fights will stream live at Noon ET on DAZN, with prelim action starting at 10 am ET. Along with Okolie vs Cieslak, the show will feature
Former world champion Kell Brook has rejected the idea of retirement in the immediate future. Last weekend, the 35-year-old veteran picked up the biggest win of his career when he stopped longtime rival Amir Khan in the sixth round of a one-sided fight in Manchester. “I’m a fighter, I love to fight, I didn’t have