Heavyweight contender Daniel Dubois, who sparred both world champions, is picking Tyson Fury to overcome Anthony Joshua in a potential 2021 unification. Fury, 32, and Joshua, 31, have agreed in principle to the financial terms of a two-fight deal. Dubois views it as a close contest between the two top fighters in the weight class. And while
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Former two division world champion Felix Sturm (40-5-3) makes his comeback on December 19th in Hamburg, Germany on a card being staged by Universum Box-Promotions. Sturm takes on fellow German, Timo Rost (10-0-2) over ten-rounds in the super middleweight division. However Sturm clearly has other scores to settle on his mind ahead of his first fight in nearly
After knocking out Kubrat Pulev to retain his bundle of heavyweight titles on Saturday, Anthony Joshua was more interested in wishing the crowd of 1,000 fans inside the Wembley Arena in London a Merry Christmas than he was in discussing his performance, or anything to come. After a full year out of the ring doing
Lightweight Oscar Duarte dropped Guillermo Avila twice en route to a knockout win in round 4 Saturday night at the Studios Televisa in Mexico City. With the victory, Duarte improves to 20-1, 15 knockouts. Duarte had not fought since March 7, when he knocked out Andres Garcia in round 5 in his hometown of Parral,
Undefeated interim WBA Super Featherweight Champion Chris “Primetime” Colbert scored a statement knockout victory Saturday night, dropping tough contender Jaime Arboleda four times en route to the 11th round win in the main event of a Showtime televised card from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. At the end of an action-packed ninth round, the
Another night, another showcase performance from Shakur Stevenson. The latest step in the career of the 2016 Olympic Silver medalist and unbeaten former featherweight titlist humble Providence’s Toka Kahn Clary over 10 rounds Saturday evening live on ESPN from The Bubble at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Judges Lisa Giampa, Dave Moretti and Don Trella
SSE Arena, Wembley – In a crossroads heavyweight encounter, Hughie Fury (25-3, 14 KOs), who had to deal with a bad cut above his left eye, won a ten round unanimous decision over veteran Marisuz Wach (36-7, 19 KOs). The scores were 100-90, 100-90, 99-91 for Fury. The first round was close, with Fury boxing well
Anthony Joshua’s stunning knockout loss to Andy Ruiz Jr. ultimately helped him develop professionally and personally. In fact, the rebuilt British superstar doesn’t think anything about that then-devastating defeat changed him for the worse. Joshua discussed his transformation since Ruiz upset him and he regained his four heavyweight titles during a press conference Thursday for
Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not expecting a fire-fight when Anthony Joshua steps in the ring with Kubrat Pulev. Joshua will defend the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight titles against Pulev on Saturday night at SSE Arena at Wembley. At Friday’s official weigh-in, the two boxers were pulled apart after
Matchroom and Canelo Promotions have announced that the WBC World Super-Middleweight title will be on the line when Canelo Alvarez and Callum Smith clash at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday December 19, live on DAZN in 200+ countries and territories worldwide and on TV Azteca in Mexico. Canelo (53-1-2 36 KOs) once
Hughie Fury has vowed that he will take over the heavyweight division ahead of his fight with Polish giant Mariusz Wach on Saturday. Fury (24-3, 14 KOs) faces Wach (36-6, 19 KOs) at the SSE Arena at Wembley in London, on the undercard of Anthony Joshua’s world title defence of the WBA, IBO, IBF, WBO belts against
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol is not simply looking to fight just anyone. Because of the ongoing corornavirus pandemic, some fighters want to stay busy by facing any available foe, but Bivol is only looking to return against a solid opponent. Bivol, with an undefeated record of 17 wins (11 by knockout), has been out of the ring
Rising star Lester Martinez kept his perfect record intact last night, stopping Uriel “Big Bang” Gonzalez (18-7-1, 14 KOs) at the end of the opening round, in the main event on an RJJ Boxing card at Maninaterra Hotel & Spa Event Center in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico. The final 2020 installment of RJJ Boxing on UFC
Although welterweight titleholder Terence Crawford is acknowledged as one of the premier talents in the sport, his inability to face elite welterweights continues to be a blight on his name. Or so the story goes. Fellow welterweight Shawn Porter understands the criticism, but believes that that should not detract one from recognizing Crawford’s abilities, which,
Former four division world champion Adrien Broner has been hit by another legal judgement – this time in Las Vegas. Last month in Ohio, Broner was jailed for contempt of court for his failure to pay a judgment of more than $800,000. That judgment is connected to an incident from 2018, when Broner was alleged to
Unbeaten Olympic silver medal winner Shakur Stevenson is returning to the ring on Saturday night, when he faces Toka Kahn Clary at the MGM Grand’s Conference Center in Las Vegas. Stevenson, who captured a world title at featherweight, is the WBO’s mandatory challenger at 130-pounds. The current titleholder is Jamel Herring, and he defends his title against
Pick It: TBRB #1 Anthony Joshua vs. #8 Kubrat Pulev (Saturday, DAZN, 5 PM EST) One of the sports biggest gate attractions makes his COVID-era debut as three-belted 31-year old heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua (23-1, 21 KO) sets out to resume defense of the honors he temporarily bequeathed to Andy Ruiz. Joshua now faces 39-year
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua revealed that he spoke to Wladimir Klitschko a few weeks ago, in order to obtain some information about once-beaten Kubrat Pulev. That sole defeat, was back in 2014, when Pulev was stopped by then unified champion Klitschko. Joshua, who stopped Klitschko back in 2017, will make a