Posted on 06/10/2021 By: Sean Crose “We hope that we will sign the contract by the end of the week,” Alexander Krassyuk, the promoter of former undisputed cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk tells Sky Sports. “Most of the issues have been coordinated and agreed.” If what Krassyuk is saying is true, then Usyk is on the
7:23 PM ET Jeff Wagenheim The main event will transform one of the most decorated champions in sports into a fresh-faced neophyte. Claressa Shields, the undefeated two-division boxing champion, will make her mixed martial arts debut in the PFL main event on Thursday in Atlantic City, New Jersey. But Shields’ lightweight bout against Brittney Elkin
Ahead of the June 26 Showtime PPV featuring Gervonta Davis making a two-weight class jump up to 140 to face Mario Barrios, Barrios talks a bit about what this fight means to him and why explains why he’s so confident heading into the match up. Check out some press quotes from today’s media day below.
Issue • Premium • Preview Matt Bozeat previews Matt Windle’s fight with Neil McCubbin for the Commonwealth light-flyweight crown THE Commonwealth light-flyweight title will be contested for only the third time in the car park of Sheffield Arena this Friday (June 11). Dennis Hobson promotes the clash between Scotland’s Neil McCubbin and Englishman Matt Windle
Try explaining to Esteban Bermudez that belts don’t matter. The recently crowned secondary WBA junior flyweight titlist has a golden opportunity to upgrade his title reign. The WBA ordered a title consolidation clash between Mexico’s Bermudez and Japan’s Hiroto Kyoguchi, the current WBA “Super” junior flyweight champion who is now on the hook to honor
Posted on 06/09/2021 By: Hans Themistode The third installment between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury has officially been transformed into a night of heavyweight boxing. With both Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) and Top Rank hosting the card, they have decided to put their talent in the ring against one another. According to their contractual agreement,
8:38 AM ET Shakur Stevenson’s smile disappears. He’s approached with the one question that he’s thought about plenty over the past six months: What’s next? It’s frustrated him. He’s tired of waiting. Stevenson sits up straight, looks ahead and without hesitation says, “I want Oscar Valdez next. Nothing else. That’s the big fight. That’s the
Unbeaten WBA 168-pound champion David Morrell Jr. and renowned trainer Derrick James both join The PBC Podcast this week. Morrell discusses his June 27 FOX PBC Fight Night headliner versus Mario Cazares while James talks about preparing Jermell Charlo and Errol Spence Jr. for the biggest fights of their respective careers. Plus, we analyze the
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Nathan Heaney brought 600 fans to Telford for Fight Night Live on Saturday 5th June and they sounded like 6,000. The massive ticket seller in Stoke is so popular that a stadium fight could become a real possibility in 2022. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter
News • Premium Dan Smith/Allsport He lived his life exactly the way he wanted to, not the way he was expected to, and that, frankly, is the only epitaph The Gifted One ever wanted. Matt Christie pays tribute to Kirkland Laing KIRKLAND LAING obituaries have been taking shape for years. On two occasions in the
DAZN are continuing to expand boxing coverage, as the streaming service are partnering with newly long-term partners Matchroom Boxing as well as Canelo Alvarez and Eddy Reynoso to produce a series of fight nights from Mexico. The series will kick off on Saturday, June 26, featuring Julio Cesar Martinez defending his WBC flyweight title against
Dmitriy Salita will feel a different type of nervousness when he sits beside the cage Thursday night in Atlantic City. Claressa Shields’ promoter is uneasy when she boxes, but Salita considers the undefeated three-division champion the best female fighter, pound-for-pound, in that sport. Watching Shields make her mixed martial arts debut will elicit more anxiety
Posted on 06/09/2021 By: Sean Crose There are underrated fighters and then there are really underrated fighters. Ken Norton and Larry Holmes are vastly underrated fighters. The late Norton’s name belongs aside those of his ferocious peers, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Ken Norton. As for Holmes, let’s just say some people of note argue
Always travelling. Ephemeral. A figure eternally in transit. Once upon a time, boxing writer Ian Probert got to know Kirkland Laing as well as almost anyone got to know Kirkland Laing. He shared his personal reflections here SO often life seems to be defined, even, one might suspect, moulded by coincidences which sometimes promise to
Egis Klimas, manager of former welterweight title challenger Egidijus “Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas, tells Steve Kim that a fight between his charge and Vergil Ortiz Jr. is “finalized” for August 14th, though they’ve yet to secure a venue. The pair are respectively ranked #5 and #1 by the WBO at 147 pounds, meaning the winner could
Jaime Munguia closed the strong stage of his preparation on Tuesday in Temoaya, State of Mexico, and exhibited great physical and boxing form – for his scheduled return to the ring on Saturday, June 19, in El Paso, Texas. Munguia will defend his WBO middleweight Intercontinental championship, in a contest being carried by DAZN and
Posted on 06/09/2021 By: Sean Crose From Sport’s Business outlet Sportico: “Showtime is projecting roughly 1 million pay-per-view buys for Sunday’s boxing match between YouTube celebrity Logan Paul and retired champion Floyd Mayweather, according to a source familiar with the numbers.” That’s not all. “Perhaps equally important for Showtime, Sunday was the network’s biggest day of new