Emanuel Navarrete thinks he’ll encounter a cautious Christopher Diaz on Saturday night. Eventually, though, the defending WBO featherweight champion is confident Diaz will succumb to trying to satisfy an arena full of proud Puerto Rican boxing fans in Kissimmee, Florida. That’s when Navarrete envisions a typical brawl between a Mexican and a Puerto Rican developing
Posted on 04/22/2021 By: Sean Crose WBA Featherweight World Titlist Jelena Mrjdenovich defended her belt as the headline event of Thursday’s Ring City Card which was aired live on the NBC Sports Network from West Point, New York. The 41-10-2 Mrjdenovich put her belt on the line against the 12-1-0 Erika Cruz. The fight was
Erika Cruz scored an upset in tonight’s Ring City USA main event, dominating against Jelena Mrdjenovich to take the WBA featherweight title and possibly move on to an even bigger bout with Amanda Serrano. Cruz (13-1, 3 KO) won on technical decision scores of 70-63 across the board, after the fight was stopped early in
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has continued to confidently back Billy Joe Saunders in the biggest fight of his career. Fury cautions that Fury is a different breed of animal to anything that his upcoming opponent, Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, has ever come across – ahead of their unification showdown next month. The highly-anticipated event takes
Posted on 04/20/2021 By: Hans Themistode For as long as Billy Joe Saunders has been around, the WBO super middleweight world champion has been loquacious. Yet, with the biggest fight of his life coming up rather quickly against unified titlist Canelo Alvarez, Saunders has been most been mostly quiet. Rather than continue to egg Alvarez
WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney may be currently scheduled to face Jorge Linares next month, but he was really hoping for an even bigger fight against rising star Ryan Garcia. But despite publicly expressing his interest in a fight against Garcia, Garcia and his team instead opted to face Javier Fortuna — something Haney explicitly
Feature • Issue • Premium Ahead of a comeback, after a long time out, with a new promoter, Callum Johnson spoke to John Dennen CALLUM JOHNSON has been out of action for too long. In his last two fights he has clashed with Artur Beterbiev for the IBF title and knocked out Sean Monaghan. Then
Patrick Myler tells the story of legendary bareknuckle champion Dan Donnelly and how his right arm came to be one of boxing’s grisliest souvenirs COLLECTORS of boxing memorabilia will proudly show off signed gloves, discarded gowns and trunks, maybe even blood-spattered towels from distant ring battles. Too gruesome for some, treasured by others. The most
Heavyweight action as George Kandelaki looks to keep his unbeaten run going against the experienced Yuriy Yelistratov.
Oscar De La Hoya disputes Devin Haney’s version of why Ryan Garcia didn’t agree to fight him after defeating Luke Campbell. Haney, the WBC world lightweight champion, feels it’s obvious that Garcia ducked him. De La Hoya, whose company promotes Garcia, contends that Haney needs to strengthen his resume before Garcia will consider challenging him,
Posted on 04/21/2021 By: Hans Themistode Liam Williams will have to wait a little bit longer for his world title dreams to become a reality. The middleweight contender fought a competitive fight against WBO belt holder Demetrius Andrade this past weekend at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Although Williams gave
Pre-order #RuizArreola on FOX Sports PPV for only $49.99: http://pbcham.ps/RuizArreolaPPV5 Unified World Welterweight Champion Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. opens up about his ‘Road to the Top’ and shares some words of wisdom for Sebastian Fundora and Jesus Ramos Jr.—two young fighters who are both on a similar path to greatness. #ErrolSpenceJr Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for
Frank Warren revealed he would be keen to agree terms with Jake Paul and his team for a bout with Tommy Fury in the future, stating he’d leave his door unlocked, should they want to discuss terms. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join
With Joseph Parker set to face Derek Chisora on May 1, Parker manager David Higgins is fully confident of success for his man, telling Sky Sports that while they respect Chisora’s danger, he sees the British veteran retiring after losing the fight: “Provided that Joseph Parker does not make a silly mistake, and executes his
Feature • Issue • Premium Elliot Worsell looks back 20 years to a nightmarish fortnight for British boxing superpowers Lennox Lewis and Naseem Hamed AT the start of April 2001, it would be no exaggeration to say Great Britain boasted the best heavyweight in the world, the best featherweight in the world, and two of
Josh Taylor is a month away from his highly anticipated full division unification with Jose Ramirez. The two boxers will collide in Las Vegas on May 22, with the IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA junior welterweight titles at stake. Unified lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez has discussed the possibility of facing the winner of Taylor vs. Ramirez
Posted on 04/21/2021 By: Hans Themistode Once former heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder unceremoniously removed former co-trainer Mark Breland from his corner, the Alabama native claimed that Breland’s career as a cornerman would be officially done and over with. With that said, it appears as though he’s doing just fine. Current WBC middleweight champion, Jermall Charlo,
After a lengthy partnership with Sky Sports to air fights in the UK, Eddie Hearn and Matchroom are reportedly going all-in with DAZN. The Athletic claims that they’ve “struck a record-breaking deal…that is worth well into nine figures.” The partnership goes into effect on July 1st; the May 15th Terri Harper vs. Hyun Mi Choi