Eddie Hearn has called on the WBA to strip Leo Santa Cruz if the WBA “super” featherweight title to allow Leigh Wood to become their premier champion. Wood won the WBA “regular” title when he stopped Xu Can in the final round at Fight Camp on Saturday. Santa Cruz, 32, has held the “super” title
Posted on 08/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode Stepping into the ring had become somewhat foreign territory for Chris Algieri. The former 140-pound titlist spent the past 26 months on the sidelines. With a chance to place his name back amongst the upper echelon of the 140-pound division, Algieri didn’t disappoint. Despite being absent from the ring
1:13 AM ET Associated Press Sena Irie of Japan has claimed the first-ever women’s featherweight boxing gold medal with a unanimous decision over the Philippines’ Nesthy Petecio. Irie became the first female boxer to win a medal for Japan when she secured the first gold of the Tokyo boxing tournament by sweeping the third round
Amateur Ben Whittaker takes an Olympic silver medal, while super-heavyweight Frazer Clarke has bronze. On a day of high emotion both boxers speak from Tokyo BEN WHITTAKER and Frazer Clarke reached their end of their Olympic journey on Wednesday (August 4) at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo. As Pat McCormack experienced the day before, Whittaker
Cuba’s Arlen Lopez won the gold medal as a middleweight at Rio 2016, and has followed it up at Tokyo 2020 with the same honor as a light heavyweight, beating Great Britain’s Ben Whittaker on the cards today. Lopez won the fight on a tally of 4:1, but it was an odd result to judge
WBA welterweight world champion Yordenis Ugas is very excited to showcase his skills against Fabian “TNT” Maidana, which takes place on Saturday, August 21 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be headlined by the welterweight clash between Manny Pacquiao and IBF, WBC world champion Errol Spence. The 35-year-old Ugas (26-4, 12 KOs)
Posted on 08/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode Michael Hunter has long craved to face some of the best in the heavyweight division. While he didn’t get exactly what he was hoping for, as he took on journeymen Mike Wilson, Hunter moved one step closer to a bigger contest. As New York City has begun to open
7:18 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN For decades, Team USA was the standard-bearer of Olympic boxing, a factory of future heavyweight champions no matter the weight class. Floyd Paterson won middleweight gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games before capturing the heavyweight championship. Eight years later, Cassius Clay claimed light heavyweight gold in Rome and went on
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Eight-Division World Champion and Philippine Senator Manny “Pac Man” Pacquiao and Undefeated Unified WBC and IBF Welterweight World Champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. will meet in a blockbuster championship showdown that headlines a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View event. ????: https://pbcham.ps/PacSpencePPV-5 #PacquiaoSpence Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US:
Former two-division champion Luis Nery has some rebuilding to do after suffering his first professional defeat, and he’ll be doing so with a new crew behind him. “Pantera” confirmed today that he’ll be working with trainer Jorge Capetillo and strength and conditioning specialist Memo Heredia. Julius Julianis first revealed the arrangement on Saturday. Nery’s (31-1,
Tommy Fury and Daniel Dubois alongside Frank Warren announced their American debuts for August 29 at a press conference in London. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport Boxing Facebook Group ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/groups/BTSportBoxing/ Follow us on Instagram ➡️ http://instagram.com/btsportboxing Read more
Three matchups have been added to the FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View undercard headlined by eight-division world champion and Philippine Senator Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao facing unified WBC and IBF Welterweight World Champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. on Saturday, August 21 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. WBA Welterweight World Champion Yordenis Ugas will square off
Posted on 08/03/2021 By: Hans Themistode With his most recent performance, Gervonta Davis proved that size doesn’t always matter. On June 26th, earlier this year in front of a jam-packed crowd at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta Georgia, Davis moved up two weight classes to take on a much larger man in Mario Barrios.
7:58 AM ET The calendar has turned over to August, a busy month in the boxing world and the gateway to what’s shaping up to be a big fall as well. Canelo Alvarez was poised to be part of the busy schedule with a fight against Caleb Plant to unify boxing’s super middleweight division in
Issue • Opinion • Premium Ian Walton/Matchroom Boxing George Gigney reviews the boxing media as DAZN launch in the UK with the first Fight Camp of 2021 DAZN and Matchroom Boxing kicked off their 2021 version of the Fight Camp series in style. The card itself suffered when its main event – Conor Benn vs
Opinion LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images Mourad Aliev’s outburst as he was disqualified against Frazer Clarke became a talking point in the Olympic super-heavyweight division Paul EdwardsAmateur coachThe referee was 100 per cent right. I hate that. If you throw a head butt in boxing you should be disqualified straightaway, let’s get it right. You
Triller Fight Club kicks off a new Tuesday night series this evening at 7 pm ET, streaming live and free on FITE TV. Live updates will come in this stream, which doesn’t require any refreshing: The heavyweight main event will see Michael Hunter take on Mike Wilson in a 10-round bout, with two more fights