Tag: Boxing

Abraham Nova vs. Toka Kahn Clary Planned By Top Rank For June 25 Card

While Top Rank has made its first two cards on June 9 and June 11 official as it returns to doing live boxing events without crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company is also busy putting together a slew of other fights for ESPN shows planned for the rest of June and July. One of those fights, which has ...

MTK Fight Night Events To Resume in July, To Be Carried on ESPN+

Starting in July, MTK Fight Night events are set to take place once a month for the foreseeable future and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank. Discussions are also currently ongoing with other broadcasters. Initial events will be held behind closed doors under the jurisdiction of the British Boxing Board of Control and will strictly ...

Fury: If I Don’t Get Joshua Fight After Wilder, I’ll Give Dillian Whyte A Beating

If Tyson Fury remains the WBC heavyweight champion and Dillian Whyte keeps winning, a Fury-Whyte fight must happen at some point. Whyte is the mandatory challenger for Fury’s title. Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed every boxer’s schedule, the WBC announced that Whyte would have to get that title shot by February 2021. Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, told ...

Mike Tyson’s Path Of Heavyweight Destruction Stands The Test Of Time

Andre Ward was all of two years old at the time a teenaged Mike Tyson began his meteoric rise to heavyweight immortality. The legacy left behind by the one-time baddest man on the planet, however, is legendary enough for the former two-division world champion to have become well versed on the subject. “I was obviously a baby when Tyson was ...

Boxing Without Boxing: Vassiliy Jirov vs. James Toney – 04/26/2003

There are nights in boxing, for the viewer, so vivid as to make every mention of them bring back a wave of emotion embedding them in the immediate. It feels like it just happened again because of the smile the memories bring to your face, or because the where you were when watching is instantly so vivid. For this author, ...

Hall of Famer Curtis Cokes, First Dallas Champion, Dies at Age 82

Former welterweight world champion Curtis Cokes, the first fighter from Dallas to win a world title and who would go on to become an International Boxing Hall of Famer, died of heart failure on Friday. He was 82. Born in Dallas on June 15, 1937, Cokes, who boxed from 1958 to 1972 and held the welterweight title from 1966 to ...

Tyron Woodley vs. Gilbert Burns recap and full results – Fighters Only

Gilbert Burns dominates Tyron Woodley to assert himself as a UFC welterweight contender Fresh off a win over compatriot and fellow Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu expert Demian Maia, Brazil’s Gilbert Burns ran through former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley throughout the entirety of their five-round fight. Headlining the card broadcast on ESPN, Burns made it clear to see he is a true ...

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Which Active Fighters Deserve To Be Called Great?

During the economic shutdown, boxing fans have been watching videos of great fighters from the past. And it brings home the point that “great” has become the most overused term in boxing. We lose sight sometimes of what athletic greatness means at the professional level. Too many people – including people who write about sports – don’t understand what it ...

Tureano Johnson Targets Jaime Munguia Showdown

Middleweight contender Tureano Johnson resurrected his career in his last bout. Now he wants to face the biggest names at 160 pounds. Johnson is targeting former WBO junior middleweight titleholder and unbeaten middleweight Jaime Munguia later this year or when the opportunity presents itself. The 36-year-old Johnson (21-2-1, 15 knockouts), who presented the Bahamas at the 2008 Olympic Games in ...