Throughout fight week, Maxi Hughes, in advance of Saturday’s lightweight bout with William Zepeda, insisted that training camp was just fine. He kept a lid on what he had been through over the previous two weeks, heading into the biggest night of his life. Hughes flew from London Heathrow to the U.S. on his birthday – Monday, March 4 – ...
Irish light heavyweight Conor Wallace faces off with Jack Gipp tomorrow in Fortitude Valley, Australia. Originally from Newry, Northern Ireland, Wallace (12-1, 9 KOs) continues his career in the unlikely destination of Queensland. The 27 year old southpaw will headline the St Patrick’s Day event live on DAZN. “St Patrick’s Day is always a good day for the Irish, which ...
Anyone who knows Manny Pacquiao understands he’s not a confrontational type outside the boxing ring. So take this footage of him shadow boxing in earnest in his hometown of General Santos City, Philippines, as more than a nudge to the parties who can deliver him a contract and a date to fight Conor Benn by the end of June. Record ...
By Stephen “Breadman” Edwards The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards giving his thoughts on what life looks like in the heavyweight division following Anthony Joshua’s two-round destruction of Francis Ngannou, and looking ahead to the summer event featuring Mike Tyson and Jake Paul. Hi Bread In the aftermath of AJs KO over ...
Kalle Sauerland believes that Chris Eubank Jr would have proven a more worthy opponent for Saul “Canelo” Alvarez than will Jaime Munguia. Munguia, 27, will fight the undisputed super middleweight champion at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 4 in an all-Mexican fight to mark Cinco de Mayo weekend. His confirmation as Alvarez’s opponent concluded a period of ...
The retired Carl Froch, who in 2023 was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, was on Monday the guest of honour at a lunch hosted in London by the Boxing Writers’ Club. His final 12 fights, starting with his victory over Jean Pascal in 2008 for the vacant WBC super middleweight title and ending with his stoppage of ...
Victory with a lesson to learn is like gold to a trainer. So even though Ireland’s Callum Walsh had the Madison Square Garden Theater crowd on its feet following his ninth-round stoppage Friday night, Freddie Roach savored the thought that he can keep pressing his promising junior-middleweight to improve. “He didn’t fight his best fight. We need to be a ...
Callum Walsh (10-0, 8 KOs) stopped Dauren Yeleussinov (11-4-1, 10 KOs) in the ninth round to win the WBC Continental Americas super welterweight title in Friday’s headline fight at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. After the bout, Walsh, 23, was told he is now ranked 14th in the 154-pound division and was asked how it would feel ...
Cletus Seldin (28-1, 23 KOs) beat Jose Angulo (16-8, 9 KOs) by majority decision in an eight-round super lightweight clash Friday at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. But that will likely be his second-best memory of the night. After the fight, Seldin, 37, thanked his partner, Jessica Ostrowski, for her support and proposed to her into ...
DAZN and its North America chief executive Joseph Markowski have mutually agreed to part ways, sources connected to the decision confirmed to BoxingScene on Friday following an initial report on the split from Sports Business Journal. An official statement is being prepared for Monday, a DAZN spokesman said. Markowski presided over DAZN’s bold entry into boxing, originally separating itself from ...