Former flyweight world champion Charlie Edwards will test out the bantamweight waters in a 10-rounder against Kyle Williams on Saturday, Sept. 26 as the co-feature to WBA/IBF junior welterweight world champion Josh Taylor’s title defense against Apinun Khongsong in London. Taylor-Khongsong and Edwards-Williams will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+ beginning at 4 p.m. ET/1
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The specifics of the WBC’s heavyweight mandatory schedule remain up in the air even though the winner of the rematch between interim titlist Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte will be in position to eventually challenge for the full title, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday night. Whyte had been designated as the WBC
Former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga has begun to show signs of improvement, after spending a few weeks in the Como Las Aguilas Rehabilitation Center in Nicaragua. Mayorga had been dealing with his addictions to drugs and alcohol and received assistance from his close friend and former world champion Rosendo Alvarez. The president of the World
Top super welterweight contender Terrell Gausha believes that his WBC Super Welterweight title eliminator showdown against Erickson “Hammer” Lubin gives him an opportunity to solidify his spot in the stacked 154-pound division as they headline live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, September 19 in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. “This fight is a chance to
Roy Jones Jr. is having some second thoughts ahead of his Nov. 28 exhibition match against Mike Tyson on Triller pay per view. Weeks after Jones Jr. was angered over the delay of the fight and threatening withdrawal if he wasn’t compensated properly, the 51-year-old appears to again be game for the choreographed encounter. “He’s
Veteran Miguel Marriaga (29-4, 25 KOs) made it clear that he is still not thinking about retiring from the ring, despite the fact that he lost in his last fight, this past weekend, at the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas. Marriaga was dominated over ten rounds by once-beaten Joet Gonzalez. The defeat sidelined Marriaga from
WBA interim-middleweight champion Chris Eubank Jr. (29-2, 22 KOs) is targeting the winner of the showdown between WBC champion Jermall Charlo and top-rated contender Sergiy Derevyanchenko. The fight takes place on September 26th, on Showtime Pay-Per-View. “I’ll be watching that very closely because I’m looking to fight the winner,” said Eubank to Premier Boxing Champions.
Josh Taylor insists the lack of crowd will have no impact on his performance when he puts his world titles on the line against Apinun Khongsong later this month. Undefeated Taylor (16-0, 12 KOs) defends his WBA and IBF super-lightweight titles against fellow unbeaten fighter Khongsong (16-0, 13 KOs) on September 26, live on ESPN+
Former IBF heavyweight champion ‘Prince’ Charles Martin is going to keep a close eye on the upcoming fight between Anthony Joshua and Kubrat Pulev. Joshua is scheduled to defend his IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight titles against Pulev on a target date of December 12. The fight was initially scheduled for June 20, but it
World-renowned trainer Sugar Hill Steward has compared Tyson Fury’s new state of the art gym to the legendary Kronk Gym made famous by his uncle Manny Steward. WBC heavyweight champion Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) has set up the new gym in Morecambe, with the superb facility offering the ‘Gypsy King’ the chance to train close
To those up in boxing’s peanut gallery who can’t quite wrap their heads around why Frank Warren continues to feud with Eddie Hearn of Matchroom, the veteran promoter and head of Queensberry Promotions offered a simple reason that might help clarify matters: It’s a competition, dummy. “We’re competitive but so are Sky and so are
According to The Sun, veteran trainer SugarHill Steward has arrived in the UK to start training WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. This is the first time the two are training together since the coronavirus pandemic erupted in March. Fury is getting ready for a trilogy fight with Deontay Wilder, which is targeted to take place on
The stakes for Saturday’s fight mattered little to Joet Gonzalez throughout the buildup to his showdown with Colombia’s Miguel Marriaga. Now with the fight out of the way and armed with his biggest career win to date, the Los Angeles native is prepared to look to the future. A battle of former featherweight title challengers
Jamel Herring did what he had to do to keep his WBO world title around his waist but his performance was less convincing against Jonathan Oquendo last week in Las Vegas. Herring (22-2, 10 KOs) started well and managed to build a significant lead on the scorecards in the first four rounds including a knockdown
MGM Grand Conference Center – In a crossroads featherweight scrap, Joet Gonzalez (24-1, 14 KOs) bounced back from his first career defeat in style as he dominated hard punching veteran Miguel Marriaga (29-4, 25 KOs) to win a ten round unanimous decision. The scores were 97-93, 99-91, 99-91. Gonzalez showed the quicker hand speed, as
Polish junior lightweight titleholder Ewa Brodnicka may not be the garrulous type, but she doesn’t plan on keeping her mouth shut either now that it appears she is projected to make her title defense against Mikaela Mayer later this year. Mayer, one of the top names in women’s boxing and 2016 Olympian, has not been
Serge Michel appears to have his sights already set on the Golden Contract final – branding Liam Conroy as a ‘warm-up fight’ ahead of their light-heavyweight semi-final later this month. The two men will meet on a massive card on September 30, which will be broadcast live in the UK on Sky Sports in association
Former four division world champion Adrien Broner has claimed that his close friend, Floyd Mayweather, had pre-planned to stop UFC superstar Conor McGregor in the tenth round. In August of 2017, Mayweather and McGregor collided in a major cross-sport pay-per-view encounter at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McGregor did well in the first few rounds, before