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Posted on 07/23/2022 By: Sean Crose Featherweight contenders Isaac Dogboe and Joet Gonzalez threw down in a scheduled 10 rounder for a WBO mandatory position Saturday night in Minnesota. The fight, which was aired live on ESPN+, was of extreme importance for each man. The 23-2 former world titlist Dogboe and the 25-2 Gonzalez started

Posted on 07/22/2022 By: Sean Crose “I don’t dodge nobody,” featherweight contender Joet Gonzalez told FightHype in the lead up to Saturday’s match against Isaac Dogboe. “There’s a lot of fighters out there, they start demanding some fights and they don’t even fight. They fight punching bags, you know, easy paychecks, but me, I’m here

Posted on 07/21/2022 By: Sean Crose Floyd Mayweather took to reminiscing a bit during an interview with FightHype that was posted on Wednesday. “Oscar De La Hoya,” the former pound for pound great said, referring back to the leadup of his 2007 superbout with the “GoldenBoy” himself, “chose the gloves, chose the judges, he chose

Posted on 07/20/2022 By: Sean Crose Tyson Fury, who claims to be retired, is still regarded by many as the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world. Therefore, when Tyson talks, fans listen. And Tyson likes to talk – oftentimes a lot. A recent statement from the towering Englishman is certainly leading to eyebrows

Posted on 07/21/2022 By John “Gutterdandy” Walker Ukrainian heavyweight boxing legend and current Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, was presented with the Arthur Ashe Award For Courage Wednesday night at the 2022 ESPY awards. Known as “Dr. Ironfist” during his boxing career, where he amassed a glittering record of 45-2 with 41 wins coming by

Posted on 07/19/2022 By: Sean Crose “I’m gonna be a hundred-percent honest with you, Brian,” former world titlist Adrien Broner told Showtime broadcaster Brian Custer. “I ain’t with none of this shit they got goin’ on.” And with those words, a Zoom video conference to promote Broner’s August 20th fight with Omar Figuera turned into

Posted on 07/19/2022 By John “Gutterdandy” Walker Finland’s Robert Helenius provided one of heavyweight boxing’s highlights of 2021 when he destroyed the heavily hyped Adam Kownacki for the second time in two fights on the undercard of the final bout in the Fury vs Wilder trilogy. “The Nordic Nightmare” had already stopped Kownacki in round

Posted on 07/18/2022 By: Sean Crose After a brilliant performance this past weekend against Javier Fortuna, rising star Ryan Garcia has taken to taunting fellow undefeated slugger Gervonta Davis online. “Okay now Cmon Gervonta,” Garcia tweeted on Monday, “come get this ass whooping real quick… It will only hurt a little, you won’t see it

Posted on 07/18/2022 By: Sean Crose Someone somewhere must give Jake Paul this. He’s funny. Some might think he’s crass, or mildly amusing at best, but there’s no doubting the social media star turned up and coming fighter knows how to sell a fight through off the wall promotional tactics. Take Monday morning, for instance,

Posted on 07/17/2022 By: Sean Crose After completely blasting his way through a way over his head Javier Fortuna Saturday night in Los Angeles, Ryan Garcia expressed his desire to face fellow undefeated power puncher Gervonta “Tank” Davis. “I will take Tank next,” he said. “If he wants it, let’s get it.” There really isn’t

Posted on 07/17/2022 By: Sean Crose Lightweight Ryan Garcia returned to the ring Saturday night when the popular 22-0 contender took on the veteran 37-3-1 Javier Fortuna. The fight was scheduled for 12 rounds and was aired live as the main event of a Golden Boy card on DAZN. Garcia started right off by zipping

Posted on 07/15/2022 By: Sean Crose The 26-0  junior welterweight Arnold Barboza Jr stepped into the ring at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California on Friday night to face the 16-0 Danielito Zorrilla in an ESPN broadcast main event that was scheduled for 10 rounds. Although Puerto Rico’s Zorrilla was the power puncher of

Posted on 07/15/2022 By: Sean Crose Rising lightweight Ryan Garcia returns to the ring on Saturday to face the veteran Javier Fortuna in a scheduled 12 rounder. The battle, which will be aired live on DAZN, will be the main event of a card hosted by Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. Although the 43-3-1-2 Fortuna once

Posted on 07/15/2022 By: Sean Crose ESPN will be hosting a Top Rank card this evening that features a pair of undefeated junior welterweights who are hoping to move on to bigger things. In other words, each man has a lot riding on his performance this evening. Thirty year old Arnold Barboza Jr will be

Posted on 07/14/2022 By John “Gutterdandy” Walker “Tyson Fury’s afraid to fight Joshua, Tyson Fury’s afraid to fight Usyk….“This is why boxing is dying, because these fights aren’t mandatory. “Knocking out a Fury and fucking up their whole boxing legacy would be fun for me.” —Jake Paul, “YouTube boxer” If Gypsy John Fury was humiliated

Posted on 07/14/2022 By: Sean Crose Oscar De La Hoya knows a bit about making a major fight happen. Not only has he put together high profile matches as the head of Golden Boy Promotions, he was a longtime top attraction in the sport himself, one who engaged in some of the largest, most popular,

Posted on 07/13/2022 By: Sean Crose What makes trainer Robert Garcia a good fit for former heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua? “Pedigree for one,” former junior welterweight titlist Chris Algieri tells Sky Sports. In preparing for his rematch against Oleksandr Usyk, the man who took his championship belts last autumn, England’s Joshua has teamed up with

Posted on 07/12/2022 By: Sean Crose This one might not be bad at all – provided it goes down. The World Boxing Organization has ordered that it’s light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol square off against the uber-confident and undefeated number one contender Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez. The good news here is that Bivol is represented by