World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman has issued an official order pertaining to the bantamweight division. WBC bantamweight champion Nordine Oubaali was scheduled to make a mandatory defense of his title on December 19, in a Shotwime televised main event against Nonito Donaire. Due to Oubaali’s positive COVID-19 test result in late October, he was pulled from
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Undefeated lightweight contender Ryan Garcia is confident in his ability to close the show early, when he returns on January 2nd against Olympic gold medal winner Luke Campbell, with the interim-WBC world title at stake. The winner of the contest will be in line to face world champion Devin Haney, who recently returned to the ring with
Joe DeGuardia, promoter for heavyweight contender Carlos Takam, said a deal was nearly complete for a fight with WBC champion Tyson Fury – but the comeback date unexpectedly called off. Fury was scheduled to make a voluntary defense on December 5th in the UK. The event was being billed as Fury’s homecoming, with his last
After a couple ups and downs in the last few years, Puerto Rican lightweight contender Felix Verdejo is very clear about his desire to become a world champion at 135 pounds, and his fight against the Japanese Masayoshi Nakatani, on December 12 at the MGM Grand’s Conferene Center in Las Vegas, will be the first step towards his desired
Teofimo Lopez didn’t watch Gervonta Davis knock out Leo Santa Cruz last month. The undisputed lightweight champion considered that outcome completely predictable and didn’t think it was worth paying $75 to see it. Lopez is much more interested in facing Davis himself, as long as Davis and his promoter, Floyd Mayweather, realize that Davis won’t
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is standing firm on his claim that Deontay Wilder is the reason that they never went forward with their anticipated fight. Wilder recently tweeted to Tyson Fury - “you know I was offered more money to fight Joshua than I was getting to fight you – again being a man
Now that Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez has made his choice, the time has come for the World Boxing Council to follow suit. Guadalajara’s Alvarez (53-1-2, 36KOs) ended months of speculation over his next opponent when the global superstar announced his upcoming challenge of unbeaten super middleweight titlist Callum Smith. The two will collide on December 19,
“It’s funny, I told my friend, ‘Ah man, I feel I’m in this box,’, said former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. “And my friend looked at me and said, ‘Lennox, climb out of the box…’ And I was like, ‘You’re right, I need to climb out of the box’. So something simple has helped
Eugene Bareman, trainer for undefeated heavyweight contender Junior Fa, has sparked a war of words over the recent postponement for the New Zealand grudge match with former WBO world champion Joseph Parker. The two boxers were scheduled to fight each other on December 12, but the contest was pushed back after Fa, 31, was pulled
Anthony Joshua’s second title reign will last a little more than a year only because he hasn’t fought since regaining his slew of heavyweight belts. At least, that’s the story Kubrat Pulev chooses to tell the world. The incoming IBF mandatory challenger from Bulgaria has been brimming with confidence for as long as he has
Errol Spence Jr. was barely 40 minutes into his recent media workout when he was told that it was nearly time to shut everything down in order to conduct an interview. It wasn’t what he wanted to hear at the time. He understood the protocol that came with the session, but was more interested in
Austin Dulay returned to the win column in impressive fashion. The 25-year old lightweight prospect rebounded from a disappointing showing in primetime with a dominant 10-round unanimous decision win over Jose Luis Gallegos in their FS1-televised opener Saturday evening from a crowdless Staples Center in Los Angeles. Dulay won by scores of 100-90 on the
The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards tackling topics such as the standing of WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford, various questions about his future, the current feud with Bob Arum of Top Rank, and more. Who, in your opinion, are some of the better or best fighters who ended their careers as… what they call…
George Kambosos is ready to take part in the next huge event on Australian soil. Kambosos became the IBF’s mandatory lightweight challenger in 2020, after a hard-fought decision win over former world champion Lee Selby. He’s now focused on colliding with with IBF, WBC Franchise, WBO, WBA world champion Teofimo Lopez, who earlier this year
The official weigh-in took place for Conor Benn’s WBA Continental Welterweight Title clash with former IBO Welterweight World Champion Sebastian Formella, which will headline on Saturday November 21 at The SSE Arena, Wembley, with all of the action shown live on Sky Sports and DAZN. (photos by Mark Robinson) ‘The Destroyer’ (16-0, 11 KOs) scored two
Demsey McKean is working hard as he readies himself to perform on one of Australia’s biggest events of 2020, as he acts as chief support to rising star Tim Tsyzu on December 16 in Sydney. The card from the Bank West Stadium in Sydney that will be carried live on FOX Sports will see McKean
O’Shaquie Foster finally caught the big break his boxing career has long deserved. A masterful performance by the Houston native paved the way for a 9th round stoppage over former title challenger Miguel ‘Mickey’ Roman. in their NBC Sports Network-televised headliner Thursday evening at Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. Foster floored Roman twice, the
Former three-time middleweight world title challenger Juan Domingo Roldan, the powerful and rugged Argentinean, died from Covid-19 on Wednesday in his hometown of San Francisco, Argentina. He was 63. The barrel-chested Roldan grew up on a dairy farm and eventually emerged as one of Argentina’s best fighters during the 1980s, but he is best known