Issue • Opinion • Premium Amanda Westcott/Showtime Both BT Sport and Sky Sports excel on another busy weekend for fight fans, writes George Gigney SKY Sports are certainly finding their feet after the split with Matchroom Boxing, as this weekend highlighted how well their new partnerships can work. On Friday night, they aired the international
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Amateur • Issue • Premium AIBA Bronze for Scotland’s Reese Lynch is the only British medal at World championships in Serbia. Daniel Herbert reports on the last week of the tournament (November 1-6) IN a generally disappointing World Championships for British boxers, Scotland’s Reese Lynch produced an unexpected bright spot by capturing a brilliant bronze
Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes domestic rival Anthony Joshua should not force an immediate rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Back in September, Usyk outboxed Joshua to capture the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world titles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. There is a rematch clause, which Joshua has already exercised
Posted on 11/08/2021 By: Hans Themistode Caleb Plant should hold his head up high, even in defeat. Even with the 29-year-old suffering the first loss of his career at the hands of Canelo Alvarez this past weekend, his name and stature took a considerable leap forward. In the eyes of many, Plant was simply overmatched
Issue • Premium • Reports Queensberry Classy stuff from Zach Parker against Marcus Morrison, writes Andy Whittle SHOWS in the second city are as plentiful as they have ever been at the moment, with many others already scheduled, and barely a month passes without the Arena hosting an event. It was a quick fairly quick
Oscar De La Hoya doesn’t promote Canelo Alvarez anymore after a nasty split in 2020, but the fighter-turned-promoter was in the house to see Canelo’s win over Caleb Plant on Saturday, and does have a couple of Golden Boy fighters in mind to face the superstar down the line. De La Hoya’s company are also
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has indicated that his boxer is in no hurry to confirm his next ring assignment. Fury was in action last month, when he overcame two knockdowns to score a knockout of Deontay Wilder in the eleventh round of their trilogy fight at the T-Mobile Arena in
Posted on 11/08/2021 By: Sean Crose Canelo Alvarez admitted he was a bit frustrated on Saturday night. Fighting to win the undisputed super middleweight championship of the world, perhaps the most popular boxer on earth was having a challenging time with his opponent – undefeated fellow titlist Caleb Plant. Highly skilled and possessing a notable
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Showtime Boxing has released some ringside video footage of Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant having a chat inside the ring during the ninth round of their undisputed super middleweight unification fight over the weekend, a fight Canelo ultimately won by knockout. Catch some audio and video from a vantage that wasn’t available through the live
LAS VEGAS – Anthony Dirrell didn’t let the reporter finish his question. The former WBC super middleweight champion simply isn’t interested in fighting anyone other than Canelo Alvarez next. If the 37-year-old Dirrell can’t get a shot at the Mexican superstar’s four 168-pound championships, Dirrell doesn’t see the point of continuing a career that began
Posted on 11/08/2021 By: Hans Themistode Some called it arrogance, others believed it was hubris. Yet, in the mind of Caleb Plant, it was simply confidence. As the 29-year-old Nashville, Tennessee, native marched his way through a large spattering of boos at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, this past weekend, he
7:58 AM ET It was an eventful week in the world of boxing. Canelo Alvarez claimed the vast majority of headlines as he became the undisputed super middleweight champion of the world by knocking out Caleb Plant on Saturday. So naturally, attention immediately turned toward what’s next for boxing’s pound-for-pound No. 1 fighter. In the
As you surely know by now, Caleb Plant did not shock the world on Saturday, as he was dropped twice and stopped in the 11th round in his fight with Canelo Alvarez. While Plant (21-1, 12 KO) took the first loss of his pro career and dropped the IBF super middleweight title to the new
(Video by Ryan Burton) – The longtime WBO welterweight king and pound-for-pound star, Terence Crawford, finally has the super fight he craves. Enter Shawn Porter, the two-time champion who has fought most of this generation’s elite welterweights. Functional Cookies Disabled In order to view this content you need to enable Functional Cookies by clicking on
Posted on 11/07/2021 By: Hans Themistode Teofimo Lopez is extremely proud of what he was able to accomplish late last year. The 24-year-old New York native walked into his showdown against Vasyl Lomachenko as a considerable underdog. Despite most of the betting world expecting him to come up short, Lopez went on to dominate the
Welterweight prospect and rising contender Conor Benn has his next opponent set, as he’ll face former 140 lb titleholder Chris Algieri in a December 11 DAZN main event from Liverpool. The 25-year-old Benn (19-0, 12 KO) has been impressive stepping up his competition a bit in his last three fights, routing Sebastian Formella by decision,