#BronerSantiago Fight Night Details: http://pbcham.ps/FightNight-022021 Former four-division world champion and must-see attraction Adrien “The Problem” Broner will end his two-year hiatus from boxing when he faces Jovanie Santiago in a 12-round super lightweight bout Saturday, February 20 live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn. in a
Matchroom Boxing returns to Barcelona on Friday, March 26th with two European title fights and a couple of Spain’s best fighters in store. The main event sees European super lightweight champion Sandor Martin (37-2, 13 KO) look for his ninth consecutive victory and second successful defense of the title he stopped Andrea Scarpa to claim
LAS VEGAS – Saturday’s Top Rank on ESPN main event between Joe Smith Jr. and Maxim Vlasov — for the vacant WBO light heavyweight world title — has been postponed after Vlasov tested positive for COVID-19. Vlasov said, “I am devastated with the postponement of my world title fight against Joe Smith Jr. I have
Posted on 02/11/2021 By: Hans Themistode Following Vasiliy Lomachenko’s surprising loss at the hands of Teofimo Lopez in mid-October last year, promoter Bob Arum did not want to bother him just yet. Lomachenko had always dreamed of becoming an undisputed world champion and needed only one more win to achieve his ultimate goal. Lopez though,
Iran Barkley is indeed in the hospital after testing positive for COVID, but the three-weight champ from the Bronx told BLH that he is feeling decent. Once a fighter, always a fighter. “I’m hanging in, buddy,” Barkley, age 60, told me on Wednesday evening. “I went to the hospital last week, because I started coughing,
Feature Mike Tyson’s then-trainer, Aaron Snowell, looks back on a disatrous night for the whole of Team Tyson “WOULD Don King, one of the wisest men boxing has ever seen, put me in the corner of the most valuable brand that not only boxing, not only sport, but entertainment had to offer if I didn’t
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez already has his next two fights scheduled, yet he continues to keep tabs on the rest of the super middleweight division. With that came his team’s undivided attention on another recent divisional title fight, as unbeaten Caleb Plant (21-0, 12KOs) scored a 12-round shutout win over Caleb Plant in a Jan. 30th
Posted on 02/10/2021 By: Hans Themistode The more famous they become, the less they become visible to fans. Unlike his contemporaries who enter the ring sparsely throughout the year, Canelo Alvarez intends on doing things a bit differently. After making the trek to the ring only once during a pandemic stricken 2020, Alvarez says he
7:36 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN Joe Smith. A search on Boxrec.com reveals seven and a half pages — almost 200 professional fighters — who go, or have gone, by “Joe Smith.” The name itself is a generic suggestion: just a guy, an ordinary guy, a regular guy, blue collar, everyman. The Joe Smith in question
Feature Buster Douglas tells James Slater what came before, during, and after his fight with Mike Tyson COLUMBUS, Ohio’s James “Buster” Douglas will always be remembered for one incredible fight/upset: the one that occurred the day he challenged the seemingly invincible Mike Tyson on February 11th 1990 in Tokyo, Japan. Douglas simply shocked the entire
Feature • Issue • Premium So far BN readers have voted Frazier-Ali I as their favourite fight of the seventies and Hagler-Hearns from the eighties. What will be the choice for Desert Island Fights from the nineties? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To
WBC lightweight titleholder Devin Haney says he’s not getting all riled up by Teofimo Lopez’s taunting about being undisputed lightweight champion, but instead says Lopez knows they eventually need to meet in order to settle things in the ring. Haney calls Lopez a ‘liar’ and accuses him of constantly changing his story to skirt a
Undefeated super flyweight prospect Jasmine ‘Animal’ Artiga, (7-0-1, 4 KOs), of Tampa, FL makes her highly anticipated return to the ring on Saturday, February 27 in a six-round clash against Randee Lynn Morales, (2-1, 1 KOs), of Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Caribe Royal Resort in Orlando, FL. Managed by Peter Kahn’s Fight Game Advisors,
Posted on 02/10/2021 By: Sean Crose “Eddie,” promoter Eddie Hearn recently quoted promoter Bob Arum as saying, “I think you should stop talking about Fury vs Joshua.” Hearn went on to tell iFL TV that Arum had his reasons for his statement. “You’re talking and then Frank’s gonna wanna talk and I’m gonna wanna say
4:46 PM ET Canelo Alvarez’s top 2021 plan is to do what no other boxer has done in the four-belt era: unify the super middleweight division. Ahead of his Feb. 27 title defense against WBC mandatory challenger Avni Yildirim in Miami, Alvarez told ESPN his plan for the rest of the year is fighting WBO
Panama’s Jaime Arboleda survived a knockdown to win an excellent action fight by narrow split-decision over Puerto Rico’s Jayson Veléz in a WBA Super Featherweight Title Eliminator. #JaimeArboleda #ArboledaVelez #Boxing Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
Josh Warrington has shot back at the recent statements from WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Russell was insulted by an offer of $1 million, from promoter Eddie Hearn, for a fight with Warrington. Warrington was stunned by Russell’s position on the offer. He feels Russell is not the big box office draw that he
Posted on 02/09/2021 By: Hans Themistode There’s a sharp, painful feeling currently coursing through the back of Deontay Wilder. As he reaches around to find out exactly what it is, he notices the cold, sharp steel associated with a knife protruding from his spine. For years the former WBC heavyweight belt holder fought foe after