Sampson Boxing proudly announces the signing of streaking welterweight prospect Nicklaus “La Bestia” Flaz to a promotional contract. Since suffering his second career defeat, a shock first-round knockout in October 2020, Flaz (12-2, 8 KOs), from Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, has gone on a tear, scoring three impressive upset victories; knocking out an established durable veteran and taking the undefeated ...
Chris Bourke (13-1, 8KOs) and Ashley Lane (17-10-2, 2KOs) successfully weighed in ahead of Friday’s British and Commonwealth bantamweight encounter at Bethnal Green’s York Hall in London. Bourke, challenging for the second time to claim a British title following an unsuccessful title tilt at the British super-bantamweight title against Mark Leach in March 2022, weighed in at 117 lbs 4oz. ...
Mexican Olympian Lindolfo Delgado is ready to enter the junior welterweight title picture. Delgado will return in a 10-rounder against compatriot Carlos “El Tiburon” Sanchez on Friday, March 29 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Delgado-Sanchez will be featured on the undercard of the 12-round junior lightweight main event between former two-weight world champion Oscar Valdez and one-time world ...
Jimmy Joe Flint believes that fans could be in for a “barnstormer” when he defends his Central Area super lightweight title against Campbell Hatton on Saturday. The fighters will meet in Sheffield, U.K., on the undercard of Dalton Smith’s intriguing 140-pound bout with big-punching Jose Zepeda. Flint (13-1-2, 3 KOs), however, thinks his fight with Hatton (14-0, 5 KOs) could ...
Sometimes in life, you find like-minded people. That’s what happened when Tsotne Rogava and Gurgen Hovhannisyan found one another. The fighters first met as amateurs. Rogava represented Ukraine at the 2020 Olympics, while Hovhannisyan was fighting for Armenia. Today, Rogava, 30, and Hovhannisyan, 26, are heavyweights with identical records (5-0, 5 KOs) and training partners in the Los Angeles area. ...
WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith is having to be patient. Having won his title by dropping and outpointing Lawrence Okolie in his hometown of Bournemouth last May, Billam-Smith defended his crown for the first time against Mateusz Masternak, stopping the Polish challenger in front of his South Coast fans in December. It was revealed several weeks ago that Billam-Smith’s next ...
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz is trained by his father, not unlike many top professional boxers. Now Cruz will fight Rolando Romero for the WBA junior welterweight world title on March 30 on Amazon Prime pay-per-view. Keith Thurman vs. Sebastian Fundora is the headliner, but many eyes will be watching Cruz’s debut at a new weight class. Cruz came to fame with ...
Liam Davies may have started last week as part of an ensemble cast, but when Queensberry’s latest “Magnificent Seven” show was done and dusted, the unbeaten super bantamweight was the undoubted star of the show. Davies turned in a virtuoso display and stopped Mexico’s Erik Robles in two exciting rounds. Within the space of 16 fights, Davies, a 27-year-old from ...
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has trained with Ryan Garcia, befriended him as a mentor and recently watched him from a distance. Alvarez is concerned. In a behind-the-scenes Tuesday conversation with DAZN’s Claudia Trejos before a news conference to promote his own May 4 pay-per-view bout against Mexican countryman Jaime Munguia, Alvarez said he hopes Garcia “has people to help him.” “And ...
The candles went out on Liam Wilson’s birthday, signifying his 28th year on Monday, and he rolled over and went to sleep. Even that modest “celebration” was only metaphorical in nature – no actual candles were involved – because the Australian super featherweight contender has been hyper-focused on his training in Las Vegas ahead of a March 29 date with ...