Tag: Boxing

Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, believes Anthony Joshua will be fully on board to face his man. But, Warren is not convinced that Joshua’s handlers, like promoter Eddie Hearn, are in favor of doing the fight. He’s also not convinced of DAZN’s willingness to aggressively push for that fight to come around. Fury will first have to contend with ...

There hasn’t been much footage of Felix Caraballo available for Shakur Stevenson to study since he learned last month that he’ll box Caraballo on Tuesday night. All Stevenson needed was one round, though, to determine that his unknown opponent won’t pose much of a threat to his unblemished record. Those three minutes convinced Stevenson that numerous online sports books have ...

Jose Ramirez didn’t hesitate when he was asked to identify his worst professional performance. “Against Jose Zepeda, I would say,” Ramirez told host Dan Rafael as part of and episode of “Stars And Champions,” which aired on Impact Network. Rafael, a BoxingScene.com contributor and former ESPN.com writer, then asked Ramirez if he would give Zepeda a rematch. “I definitely would,” Ramirez ...

Sergiy Derevyanchenko is confident that he’ll eventually get a shot at Jermall Charlo. Ukraine’s Derevyanchenko is the WBC’s number one challenger for Charlo’s 160-pound championship. Mauricio Sulaiman, the WBC’s president, informed BoxingScene.com recently that Derevyanchenko still hasn’t been declared Charlo’s mandatory challenger, which means Charlo isn’t obligated to face Derevyanchenko next. Nevertheless, Derevyanchenko explained during the newest episode of “The ...

Ivan Golub comes from a school of boxing unlike many can imagine. The now Brooklyn based welterweight, who’s career is guided by managerial company Split-T management and promoter Lou DiBella, is a product of the famed Ukrainian amateur setup that includes world champions Vasyl Lomachenko, Oleksandr Usyk, Oleksander Gvozdyk, and stablemate Sergiy Dereyvanchenko. Golub opened up about training with Lomachenko prior ...

Top Rank’s CEO Bob Arum indicates that it’s a very realistic possibility to see the Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder trilogy end up in an overseas location. Back in February, Fury dropped and stopped Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC’s heavyweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The first bout, which took place at Staples Center in Los Angeles, ...

Erickson “The Hammer” Lubin (22-1) and Terrell Gausha (21-1-1) were supposed to face each other on October 26th in a Showtime televised main event. However, the two super welterweight title contenders didn’t square off because Gausha suffered a hand injury in his training camp which caused him to pull out of the bout.  Lubin ended up defeating late replacement Nathaniel ...

Ricky Hatton is convinced no one would’ve beaten him on the night he upset Kostya Tszyu. Not even Floyd Mayweather. One of England’s most beloved boxers explained during the newest episode of Sky Sports’ “The Boxing Show” that the way referee Dave Parris permitted him to work versus Tszyu in June 2005 would’ve enabled him to defeat even the best ...

Justice wasn’t exactly swift, but in the end it was ultimately served. Franchon Crews-Dezurn was forced to wait more than four months before seeing her unified super middleweight title reign fully restored. The Baltimore-based boxer was initially on the wrong side of a split decision which landed in favor of Mexico’s Alejandra Jimenez (12-0-1, 9KOs; 1ND) to win the belts ...

Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is confident that his staff and the Nevada State Athletic Commission have prepared properly for the return of major boxing to the United States for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sports world in mid-March. It happened just a few days before Top Rank was due to put on featherweight world ...