Junto Nakatani will “walk out” with Alexandro Santiago’s WBC bantamweight title on Saturday in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, believes his former opponent Andrew Moloney. The 26-year-old Nakatani secured a title at super flyweight, and therefore a second weight, when defeating Moloney for the vacant WBO title last May via a highlight-reel 12th-round knockout. “I’m very interested to see how ...
Edgar Berlanga meets the undefeated Irishman Padraig McCrory in Orlando, Florida this Saturday, when the moving parts in one of boxing’s brightest weight classes will again shuffle. The super middleweight division has got the sport talking – several top contenders are in pursuit of boxing’s top draw, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. There are, among others, David Benavidez, Jaime Munguia, David Morrell, ...
US Olympian Keyshawn Davis landed a career-best win earlier this month against Jose Pedraza in Las Vegas, serving as the chief support to Teofimo Lopez’s title defense against Jamaine Ortiz. Davis (10-0, 7KOs) produced a near-perfect performance to dismantle and halt the former world champion Pedraza in six rounds before proceeding to call out Lopez following a moment of crossed ...
Mexican veteran Pablo Cesar Cano steps back into the trenches on Saturday night for the 46th time as a professional. The super lightweight contender features in the co-main event at the Caribe Royale in Orlando against the undefeated Shakhram Giyasov, before Edgar Berlanga-Padraig McCrory. Uzbek Giyasov, 14-0 (9 KOs), is the favourite, but Cano is hoping to score his 26th ...
The undefeated welterweight Gor Yeritsyan is ready to make his mark on one of boxing’s glamor divisions. The Freddie Roach-trained Yeritsyan (17-0, 14 KOs) again steps up on Friday when he fights Quinton Randall (13-1-1, 3 KOs) to headline a Tom Loefller 360 Promotions show at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. “It’s my first main event on UFC ...
Former world light heavyweight and heavyweight champion Michael Moorer believes there is room at the top for another weight division in boxing. Moorer will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June, and he called it a day from fighting in 2008 with a record of 52-4-1 (40 KOs). He became the first southpaw world heavyweight champion, ...
The highly anticipated matchup between WBC super lightweight titlist Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia was already a done deal. The fight was announced on Feb. 9 and a viral showdown between the fighters ensued in a fiery fashion immediately after in Las Vegas during Super Bowl festivities. It was believed that the bout would be staged in Las Vegas as ...
Middleweight Elijah Garcia might be the next middleweight star. Garcia will fight veteran Kyrone Davis in the main event of the Amazon Prime prelims before the Keith Thurman versus Tim Tszyu PPV card on Saturday, March 30 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Garcia is a fourth-generation boxer. Fighting is the family business and the Garcias seem to pass down ...
Andre Ward was one of the greatest fighters of his era. Ward, from Oakland, California, was the last male US Olympic gold medalist and an undefeated two-weight world champion who has become a voice for many boxers who are voiceless. Ward recently spoke at a private event hosted by former world title contender Brandon Gonzales, and Ward discussed whether boxing ...
Junto Nakatani has revealed his struggles to make the super flyweight limit contributed to him moving up to bantamweight to challenge the WBC champion Alexandro Santiago. On Saturday, at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, he fights at 118lbs for the first time, having made one defence of the WBO 115lbs title he so impressively won when stopping Andrew Moloney at ...