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Posted on 08/20/2022 By: Sean Crose Three of the four major world heavyweight title belts were at stake Saturday as Oleksandr Usyk slipped inside the ring at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to face Anthony Joshua, the man he had won those belts from nearly a year earlier. Marketed as “Rage on the Red Sea,” the scheduled

Posted on 08/20/2022 By: Sean Crose It might well be the biggest fight of the year. Oleksandr Usyk surprised quite a few people last September when he decisioned defending WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua after 12 rounds of combat. Now the two men are squaring off again, only this time it’s Usyk

Posted on 08/19/2022 By: Sean Crose WBO featherweight titlist Emanuel Navarrete will be defending his crown Saturday evening in San Diego at the Pechanga Arena when he takes on Eduardo Baez in a scheduled 12 round affair. Navarette, who goes by the nickname of “Vaquero” is the star here, as he’s a Top Rank signed

Posted on 08/19/2022 By: Sean Crose One of the biggest – if not the single biggest – matchups of the year is set to go down Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The undefeated, 19-0 Oleksandr Usyk will be defending his WBA, IBF, and WBO titles against the man he won them from, the 24-2 Anthony

Posted on 08/18/2022 By: Sean Crose “I am a bit heavier than I was last time,” WBA, IBF, and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk has told Sky Sports. “I’m not sure the weight I’m going to be walking to the ring, we’re going to see it on Friday. I’m not a big forecaster. You’ll see

Posted on 08/18/2022 By: Sean Crose On the eve of the much hyped Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua heavyweight title rematch set to go down in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, a Saudi woman has reportedly been given a lengthy prison sentence for remarks she made on Twitter. Per the BBC, “Salma al-Shehab, 34, a Saudi citizen and

Posted on 08/17/2022 By: Sean Crose He’s back. Former WBC heavyweight titlist Deontay Wilder is going to return to the fight game on October 15h. His opponent will be fellow heavy Robert Helenius. Their fight will be a scheduled 12 rounder and will be the main event of a Fox Sports/PBC pay per view broadcast.

Posted on 08/16/2022 By: Sean Crose “Usyk’s got everything,” Eddie Hearn told ES News in a video released Tuesday. In a sense, the Matchroom Boxing honcho was right. Ukraine’s Usyk is heading into this weekend’s much hyped fight with Anthony Joshua with the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles in his possession. Usyk is also

Posted on 08/16/2022 By: Sean Crose Sometimes you just have to take people at their word. That’s a fact. While it’s true some can feign mental illness, depression or challenging scenarios for the sole purpose of making life easier for themselves, the truth is untold numbers of people DO suffer from such things and are

Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose Rewatching the first Anthony Joshua-Oleksandr Usyk fight from last September, it becomes instantly obvious that Usyk controlled the tempo. From the opening bell on, the Ukrainian employed an extremely fast paced, herky-jerky style, effectively throwing Joshua off his rhythm from the start. In this, Joshua was not alone. Dempsey-Tunney

Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose With Adrien Broner having removed himself from Saturday’s scheduled bout with with Omar Figueroa, Sergey Lipinets, who was scheduled to fight on the undercard, has been chosen to take Broner’s place. “Former world champ @unionsamurai,” Showtime Boxing tweeted, “steps in to battle @OmarFigueroaJr in a WBC 140-lb title eliminator

Posted on 08/15/2022 By: Sean Crose “Sorry to all my fans,” Adrien Broner posted on Instagram Monday morning, “but #MentalHealth is real and I’m not about to play inside the ring I’ve watched a lot of people die playing with they boxing career and that is something I won’t do (sic).” With those words, Broner made it

Posted on 08/14/2022 By: Sean Crose A dedicated North American boxing fan no doubt has known for a while that Anthony Joshua will try to win back the heavyweight belts he lost last fall to Oleksandr Usyk when he rematches the masterful Ukrainian this coming weekend in Saudi Arabia. What that dedicated North American boxing

Posted on 08/13/2022 By Sean Crose Xander Zayas, the rising 13-0 junior middleweight, took on the 22-4-0 Elias Espadas in a scheduled 8 rounder Saturday night at Resorts World Las Vegas. The match was the co-main event of Top Rank’s Teofimo Lopez-Pedro Campas card and was broadcast live by ESPN. The 19-0 Zayas got to work

Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Former WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist Teofimo Lopez returned to the ring on Saturday night – this time as a junior welterweight – to take on the little known Pedro Campa in a scheduled 10 rounder. The bout was the main event of a Top Rank card which

Posted on 08/13/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury has been making quite a lot of news lately. First, he called out fellow heavyweight Derek Chisora, who he’s battled and bested twice. Then the towering Englishman announced that he had a new trainer in Isaac Lowe. Then, if that wasn’t enough, the undefeated WBC and lineal

Posted on 08/12/2022 By: Sean Crose Teofimo Lopez, the former WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist, returns to the ring this Saturday night when he squares off against the largely unheralded Pedro Campa at Resorts World Las Vegas in a scheduled 10 round junior welterweight affair. It will be Lopez’ first foray into that division.

Posted on 08/12/2022 By: Sean Crose It’s strange. It’s frustrating. It’s also newsworthy. Tyson Fury, who is still widely and largely regarded as the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world, has decided to retire once more. This after recently calling out Derek Chisora and claiming he had a new trainer. Fury loves to