8:51 AM ET Steve KimESPN October has the potential to be one of the most important months for boxing in recent memory. There are four huge title fights, starting with Emanuel Navarrete facing Ruben Villa for the vacant WBO featherweight title (Oct. 9 on ESPN) and the much anticipated lightweight title unification bout between Vasiliy
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Fitness • Technique Tony Jeffries demonstrates the importance of mastering boxing footwork Footwork is the most important thing in boxing. I bet you can’t name a great fighter who has bad footwork, right? In the video below I give you three simple but very effective footwork drills that I think every fighter should be working
The original Larry Holmes vs Muhammad Ali ringside report from October 2, 1980 THE FINAL BELL FOR TRAGIC ALI‘Surely now the old maestro has climbed his last mountain’ LAS VEGAS – October 2: HARRY MULLAN reporting AFTER 20 years spent achieving the apparently impossible, Muhammad Ali has finally run out of miracles. The old maestro,
Tyson Fury, who holds the WBC and LINEAL!!!!!! heavyweight titles, is still saying he will fight in December of this year, in the U.S. or U.K., with or without Deontay Wilder. Fury seems rather frustrated in a chat with talkSPORT, saying he keeps hearing different things about the contractually obligated trilogy bout with Wilder, which
Issue • Premium • Preview Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Joshua Buatsi ends 14-month layoff while Chantelle Cameron can pick up a world belt, writes Matt Bozeat POSSIBLY the most talked about of the Matchroom-Queensberry match ups proposed by Frank Warren is a clash between light-heavyweight punchers Anthony Yarde and Joshua Buatsi. Yarde says he has had
Saturday night went remarkably better for the Charlo twins than the previous evening they fought on the same card. In their pay-per-view debuts, the polarizing champions were equally excellent while producing perhaps the most impressive victories of their respective careers. A few hours after Jermall Charlo convincingly conquered relentless Ukrainian challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko in their
Posted on 10/01/2020 By: Sean Crose Promoter and Matchroom honcho Eddie Hearn has tested positive for Covid-19. “Gutted,” he tweeted Thursday, “to just find out I tested positive.” What this means is that Hearn has to leave Matchroom’s boxing bubble, which has been raised to prevent the spread of the virus. It also means that
The big Oct. 17 fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez is one that Top Rank and everyone else wish were going to have a live, rowdy crowd of fight fans, but the “Bubble” at the MGM Grand won’t be quite as empty as recent Top Rank shows have been. With Nevada relaxing restrictions effective
Take two. Junior welterweight contenders Jose “Chon” Zepeda and former world champion Ivan “The Beast” Baranchyk were scheduled to fight in July, but the bout was postponed after Baranchyk suffered an injured rib in training. Both men now have a clean bill of health, and the two will fight Saturday evening in a 10-round bout
Posted on 10/01/2020 By: Hans Themistode Long before Tyson Fury became the top dog in the heavyweight division, he always considered himself the best of the best. His Lineal and WBC titles only strengthen his argument. With a dozen years in the pro’s, Fury knows exactly what a top heavyweight looks like. So he always
6:05 PM ET Matchroom Sports promoter Eddie Hearn announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. Hearn’s organization is scheduled to host a card this Sunday, but as a result of the test he needed to leave the bubble inside Marshall Arena in Buckinghamshire, England. Sunday’s card remains on and will be headlined by a
Josh Taylor stopped his mandatory challenger with ease at York Hall, setting up an undisputed fight with Jose Ramirez. 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 BT Sport Boxing Facebook Group ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/groups/BTSportBoxing/ Follow us on Instagram ➡️ http://instagram.com/btsportboxing Read more on upcoming
Jermell Charlo became a unified Super Welterweight World Champion following his 8th-round KO victory over former unified champion Jeison Rosario on September 26, 2020, live from the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. This fight was broadcast live on SHOWTIME Pay-Per-View as part of the Premier Boxing Champions series. Fight Night Recap: https://pbcham.ps/CharloTwinsWinBig #CharloDoubleheader #PBConSHOWTIME
Saturday night’s main event between Jose Zepeda and Ivan Baranchyk may not be a blockbuster showdown, but the Top Rank bout pits two top five-ish guys at 140 pounds against one another in a WBC eliminator, and is a meaningful matchup worth tuning in to see — and could have some interesting drama and a
Live boxing will make its long-awaited return to Italy on Friday October 23 with a stacked show at the Allianz Cloud in Milan behind closed doors, almost a year on from the last Matchroom Boxing Italy and OPI Since 82 promoted show in the country, with all of the action shown exclusively on DAZN. Main event
Posted on 09/30/2020 By: Hans Themistode During a heated confrontation last year, former middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs nearly came to blows with Gabriel Rosado. The fringe contender has long wanted to get his hands on Jacobs but the former belt holder simply laughed whenever a matchup between them was discussed. “You will never step foot
A two-time world title challenger, top trainer and marathon runner extraordinaire, Jim McDonnell is still going strong AT first, football was my number-one sport, but because a couple of my mates were boxing, I ended up drifting into it with them. Mickey Hughes, who went on to box at the 1984 Olympics, was at the
History • Issue • Premium This week 55 years ago, Bootle ‘Iron Man’ Harry Scott faced the daunting task of tackling the brilliant Emile Griffith THEY say fortune favours the brave and that’s a mantra Bootle middleweight Harry Scott could have taken heart from this week in 1965. The great Emile Griffith was in Britain