According to Ali Abdelaziz, manager of retired UFC superstar Khabib Nurmagomedov, his client was offered $100 million to have a boxing match with former division world champion Floyd Mayweather. Abdelaziz indicates that UFC president Dana White was on board with the fight. Mayweather retired from boxing in August of 2017, after stopping UFC two-division champion
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Canelo Alvarez On Possible Third Showdown Against Gennadiy Golovkin: “I Could Do Some Serious Damage” Posted on 01/05/2021 By: Hans Themistode According to Canelo Alvarez, the timing is all wrong for Gennadiy Golovkin. For years now, the long-standing middleweight champion has dished out beating after cruel beating. Marred faces after brutal combinations, along with bloody
David Benavidez is back to work. Training camp is officially underway for the former two-time super middleweight titlist, who has spent the holiday season tucked away in Big Bear, California ahead of his next ring assignment. An expected return in the 1st quarter of 2021 is in the works, with Benavidez keen on reclaiming his
8:58 AM ET Eric WoodyardESPN I cover sports for a living, but I’ve been a fan of sports — particularly boxing — much longer than I’ve been in the field as a journalist. On the weekends, especially growing up, fights were an event in my household. My mom would cook the best food, we would
With Anthony Joshua successfully getting pasted his IBF mandatory defense against Kubrat Pulev, Joshua has turned his attention towards an undisputed heavyweight title fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury. But despite Joshua publicly declaring that he wants to knock Fury’s head off, Fury thinks it’s just meaningless bluster coming from his opponent. “This fight has
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Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. (26-0, 21 KOs) unified the IBF and WBC Welterweight World Titles Saturday night against two-time champion “Showtime” Shawn Porter (30-3-1,17 KOs) in an action-packed main event of a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. “It feels good to win,” said Spence. “This is a lifetime dream.
Carl Frampton believes we’re still a way seeing the best of Jack Catterall as he won comfortably on his return to the ring after a year out but backs Catterall to challenge for world titles soon. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our
Thomas Hauser spent time with ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed directly before his first professional loss and discovered a fighter with his priorities in the wrong places YOUNG boxing fans today know Naseem Hamed is a corpulent occasional presence at ringside for fights. They may not remember when, two decades ago, “Naz” (aka “The Prince”) electrified the
Feature • Issue • Premium A reflective and happy Riddick Bowe seems to have gone off the idea of making a comeback after injuring his leg the last time he tried it, writes Thomas Gerbasi RIDDICK BOWE laughs, but it’s the kind of joke that wasn’t funny back when it happened. June 14, 2013. Overweight,
World rated contender Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna (29-4-1 10 KOs) returns this week taking on Juan González (22-14 14 KOs) in a 10 round Jr. Middleweight contest for the vacant WBA Federcentro Championship. Fight card can be seen live on Facebook from La Terraza Sports Bar in Agua Prieta, Sonora Mexico. “Unfortunately me, my fiancé and
Vasiliy Lomachenko Describes The Power Of Teofimo Lopez: “He Is A Strong Guy, He Hits Hard” Posted on 01/04/2021 By: Hans Themistode There’s a reason why Vasiliy Lomachenko has been given nicknames such as “Hi-Tech,” and “The Matrix.” Simply put, the Ukrainian product is extremely difficult to hit inside of the ring. In his latest
After spending a year on the shelf with visa issues and parting ways with Top Rank, IBF #1 welterweight contender Kudratillo Abdukakhorov has joined forces with Sampson Lewkowicz in preparation for his mandated crack at champion Errol Spence Jr. “I’m every excited to sign with Sampson Lewkowicz and Sampson Boxing,” said Abdukakhorov. “I’ve been the
Carl Greaves trainer of EBU welterweight champion David Avanesyan, is very disappointed that his boxer will have to wait even longer to return to the ring. Avanesyan was scheduled to make a defense against unbeaten Josh Kelly on January 30th in the UK. But the card was postponed after all UK boxing events, due to rising
Posted on 01/04/2021 By: Sean Crose “I don’t think he’s as good as people crack him up to be,” WBC, lineal and The Ring heavyweight champion Tyson claims, “or he doesn’t believe he is, in his own self. He’s got a confidence issue. He’s coming off two shaky performances.” Joshua, who holds the IBF, WBA
Rankings go up on Mondays at Noon ET. This is our first rankings update since Dec. 21, because there was no update to make on the 28th, and there won’t be any update to make with the rankings until Monday, Jan. 25. So we’ll list the very limited schedule that’s coming between now and then
SAN ANTONIO – Eddie Hearn doesn’t envision anyone beating Canelo Alvarez anytime soon, not unless the ambitious Alvarez agrees to face an opponent simply too big and too strong for him. The four-division champion continued to thrive last month four full weight classes above where he made his pro debut as a 15-year-old junior welterweight
Luke Campbell Gives Nothing But Praise To Ryan Garcia: “He’s Very Heavy-handed, I Wanted To Beat The Count But Just Couldn’t” Posted on 01/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode Luke Campbell has been hit with some hard shots during his career. None however, have left him as debilitated as Ryan Garcia’s left hook to the body did