Errol Spence Jr. is meticulously mapping out his future, and regardless of the path he chooses, the decision and eventual move will be an intriguing one for one of the top stars of the sport. The WBC and IBF welterweight champion Spence will next face Manny Pacquiao on Aug. 21 on FOX Sports pay-per-view. By
Posted on 06/15/2021 By: Sean Crose Well, that was interesting. Things are almost guaranteed to get odd when WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder get within a hundred yards of each other. Perhaps no one, however, could have predicted exactly how strange Tuesday’s press conference to kick off the
8:06 AM ET MIKAELA MAYER WAS backstage at a concert in Colorado waiting for her friend. It was 2018, before Mayer had become a world champion, before she started to become more of a face of women’s boxing. A man approached her and her best friend, Ginny Fuchs, also a fighter, and started offering boxing
Today, starting at 4pm ET, WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former titleholder Deontay Wilder make their impending rematch official, formally announcing their July 24 PPV fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. After much talk about a potential undisputed heavyweight title unification between Fury and Anthony Joshua, Wilder ultimately won his arbitration case,
Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Monte Fresco/Mirrorpix/Getty Images The one and only Kirkland Laing is dead at 66 but the sport will never forget him, writes Steve Bunce KIRKLAND LAING in all his pure fighting glory was a beautiful sight in any boxing ring. Laing was the night, a man of brilliance, frustration, desperation
Feature • Issue • Premium Kirkland Laing may have been a special boxer but he was an even better father, writes his daughter Delene Laing MY dad had an unmistakeable presence right up until the end. He would light up a room with that smile, a loveable rogue until his dying day. When we were
Feature • Issue • Premium Off-camera at Durán-Barkley. A special tribute to the great Roberto Durán as he turns 70, by Spring Toledo EARLY IN 1987, when Roberto Durán was in Miami drinking cerveza and salsa dancing, Winter Hill gangster Joe McDonald was released from federal prison. He headed straight to a liquor store in
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It wasn’t a typical day in the Blue Moon Boxing Gym a couple months back when Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales showed up and chatted with a young man doing his part to keep the featherweights relevant in 2021, Adam Lopez. “They’re living legends, and it was pretty cool to have them right there
Posted on 06/15/2021 By: Sean Crose “I just mean business,” Deontay Wilder told ESNEWS’ Elie Seckbach immediately after Tuesday’s press conference to kick off the promotion for his third fight with Tyson Fury. “I didn’t come here to fool around.” Appearing far more relaxed than he did at the official media event, Wilder went on
7:51 AM ET Editor’s note: The Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos Jr. lightweight title fight, and Franchon Crews-Dezurn’s super middleweight unification fight against Elin Cederroos were originally on this list before that card was postponed due to Lopez testing positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday. Multiple title fights. Famous names in exhibitions. A bunch of younger fighters in
Tyson Fury had to take up talking for two at today’s press conference to officially announce, as Deontay Wilder sat silent in a chair on stage after making a brief opening comment, refusing to take questions from the media or expand on anything else. “Enough said. Time to cut off his head,” Wilder said. “Come
News Meg Oliphant/Getty Images ‘That’s the difference between me and them. Money doesn’t motivate the Gypsy King. Blood does. Smashing faces in does.’ Tyson Fury is ready for war AFTER a long time out of the ring, Tyson Fury has a fight. It won’t be Anthony Joshua. He will go into a third fight with
Shakur Stevenson’s uneventful victory over Jeremiah Nakathila prompted Stevenson to apologize for what he considers a subpar performance. Viewership still went up as their monotonous match continued Saturday night. According to a Nielsen Media Research report released Tuesday, ESPN’s telecast of Stevenson’s 12-round points win drew an average audience of 857,000 and a peak audience
Posted on 06/15/2021 Mike Coppinger reports that lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez will not be fighting mandatory challenger George Kambosos on Saturday night as was scheduled, due to a positive Covid-19 test. The bout, which was set to go down in Miami, was supposed to be the headliner of a Triller pay per view card. Fortunately
2:07 PM ET MIAMI — Teofimo Lopez has tested positive for COVID-19 and he’s symptomatic. His Saturday bout vs. George Kambosos that was scheduled to be in Miami and the whole undercard has been moved to Aug. 14, sources told ESPN. Lopez, the unified lightweight champion and No. 5 on ESPN’s pound-for-pound list, was in
In anticipation of their third heavyweight championship showdown, WBC Heavyweight Champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury and former longtime heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder will go face-to-face at a Los Angeles press conference on Tuesday, June 15. Boxing’s most charismatic and explosive heavyweights, Fury and Wilder will continue their rivalry in the ring
Feature • Issue • Premium Mikey Williams/Top Rank/Getty Images Before the Kambosos fight had to be put back to August 14, Thomas Gerbasi spoke to Teofimo Lopez to get a unique insight into his mindset as well as his thoughts on Lomachenko LIGHTWEIGHT champion Teofimo Lopez tested positive for coronavirus and was developing symptoms on