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Posted on 10/05/2021 LOS ANGELES – ESPN and FOX Sports announce broadcaster assignments for Fury vs. Wilder III fight week with three former champions, veteran hosts and Hall of Famers set to call the action from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.   Highlighting the week, three-time world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis returns with undefeated former two-division world champion and

Posted on 10/05/2021 By: Hans Themistode Jared “Big Baby” Anderson is going to have to see it to believe it. For months on end, Wilder has released several short clips of himself pounding away at the mitts with new head trainer Malik Scott. Wilder, who’s known for his skull cracking knockout power, has shown new

Posted on 10/05/2021 By: Hans Themistode Both Tommy Fury and Jake Paul continue to hurl every derogatory word in the dictionary at one another. After the pair picked up wins on the same card on August 29th, Fury’s coming against Anthony Taylor and Paul’s coming against Tyron Woodley, the two were seen backstage jawing back

Posted on 10/04/2021 By: Hans Themistode There’s a sense of annoyance that Vergil Ortiz Jr. is currently feeling. At 23 years of age, the hard-hitting welterweight contender has stopped everyone placed in front of him. In what many considered step-up bouts against the likes of Maurice Hooker and Egidijus Kavaliauskas earlier this year, the Dallas

Posted on 10/04/2021 By: Sean Crose “It’s different level,” Canelo Alvarez tells ES News as he prepares for his November 6th throwdown against fellow supermiddleweight titlist Caleb Plant. “I don’t know what level (Plant is at), but it’s not my level, that’s for sure.” Whether that’s true on not will be found out when the

Posted on 10/04/2021 By: Hans Themistode This Saturday night on October 9th, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Wilder’s long and arduous road will come to an end. The hard-hitting former heavyweight titlist will face off against Tyson Fury for the third time in his career. After holding his WBC heavyweight title for

Posted on 10/03/2021 By: Sean Crose And in a week, it will all be over. Deontay Wilder, former WBC heavyweight champion of the world, will have proven his previous battle, a 2020 shellacking at the gloved fists of one Tyson Fury, was a one-off…or he won’t have. It’s really that simple. Indeed, it will be

Posted on 10/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode There was a look of pure shock spread across the face of Carl Froch. As the former 168-pound champion nestled into his commentator seat for Anthony Joshua’s showdown against Oleksandr Usyk this past weekend at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the United Kingdom, Froch was confident that Joshua would

Posted on 10/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode The prevailing thought process in boxing circles is that Devin Haney, Teofimo Lopez, Ryan Garcia, Gervonta “Tank” Davis, and Shakur Stevenson are future stars in the sport of boxing. Those sentiments are something that Bill Haney, Devin Haney’s father, agrees with. Unsurprisingly, Bill believes that his son is the

Posted on 09/29/2021 By: Hans Themistode An epiphany of sorts has just swept over Ryan Garcia. After taking a long, hard look at his fellow peers, the 23-year-old lightweight contender has come to one conclusion. “I will become the best boxer of this era,” said Garcia on his social media page. “I will call it

Posted on 10/02/2021 By: Sean Crose Say it ain’t so! Canelo Alvarez, perhaps the most popular and serious minded practitioner in all of boxing appears to be willing to some day face social media star turned boxer Jake Paul – maybe. “We don’t know,” he told FightHype, “you can never say never.” Before every serious

Posted on 09/29/2021 By: Hector Franco “Bernard Hopkins has put himself up there in the list of all the great middleweights.”- Larry Merchant. Throughout the social media age that includes platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, there has been a plethora of memorable moments in combat sports from the world of boxing and mixed martial

Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose Anyone paying attention to the Olympic Boxing scandal now rocking the sport’s world can tell that the sport of amateur boxing is in trouble – and has been for a long time. Yet there are those who are quite unhappy with professional boxing, as well. Fight cancellations, Twitter feuds,

Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Hans Themistode A Canelo Alvarez win has essentially become a formality in the eyes of Timothy Bradley. The former two-division champion turned ESPN commentator will certainly tune in on November 6th, when Alvarez takes on IBF super middleweight champion, Caleb Plant. Although Bradley respects the 29-year-old wholeheartedly, he simply doesn’t see

Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose “He lost to an amazing fighter,” former supermiddleweight titlist Carl Froch told iFL TV after witnessing Oleksandr Usyk’s impressive win over heavyweight multi-titlist Anthony Joshua last weekend, “probably one of the best southpaws operators of all time.” While there’s few if any who are willing to argue that Usyk

Posted on 09/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Canelo Alvarez has an unquestioned disdain for IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant. Although the two are scheduled to meet on November 6th, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada with the chance to become the division’s first undisputed champion, the pair couldn’t wait until their fight date

Posted on 09/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Andy Ruiz Jr. may have added to his win column recently, but he endured a far more difficult time than he was expecting. The former unified heavyweight champion ended his year and a half layoff just a few months ago on May 1st, against Chris Arreola at the Dignity

Posted on 09/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Jake Paul isn’t just making his mark in the boxing world by stepping into the ring. He’s now doing so on the business end of things as well. Earlier this year, the social media star and Nakisha Bidarian, Paul’s advisor, founded Most Valuable Promotions. With their first big move,