Robert Garcia has “no doubt” Anthony Joshua will again reign as world heavyweight champion – and he has also predicted Joshua will stop Francis Ngannou in three rounds. Joshua and Ngannou fight on Friday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that victory can secure a future date with the winner of the two fights between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for ...
The world was left shell-shocked in October when MMA star Francis Ngannou dropped heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and danced above his dazed body. Fury had his hand raised at the end of the contest, but the world only saw one winner after Ngannou had done the unthinkable to the WBC champion. The excuses brigade began to point out Fury’s fleshy ...
Tyson Fury expects former WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to return to the ring following his one-sided December defeat to Joseph Parker. Anthony Joshua (27-3, 24 KOs) faces Francis Ngannou (0-1) this Friday (March 8) in the Saudi capital. However, the original script had Wilder pencilled-in to finally face Joshua. Wilder then lost to a revitalised Parker (34-3, 23 ...
Serhii Bohachuk has had quite the journey to make it to his title fight. Bohachuk faces Sebastian Fundora for the vacant WBC middleweight title on the Keith Thurman–Tim Tszyu pay-per-view undercard on March 30. Bohachuk, 28, almost didn’t get this shot. Not because of politics in the ring, but because of those outside of it. Bohachuk was in his home ...
Former unified welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman has fought just five times since 2015. The long stretches on the sidelines have been due to Thurman not having much success locking down desired opponents for the right paydays, as well as his sustaining several injuries. Thurman believes the general inactivity is one of the reasons why, per DraftKings, he is ...
Undefeated junior lightweight southpaw Jalen “Sky” Walker (12-0-1, 10 KOs) has signed a long-term promotional contract with Top Rank. Walker will make his Top Rank debut in an eight-rounder against Alejandro Guerrero (12-4, 9 KOs) on Saturday, April 13, at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. Walker-Guerrero will be part of the undercard, streamed by ESPN+, for the Jared ...
Producing an explosive performance to beat Francis Ngannou is the most effective way Anthony Joshua can force a future fight with Tyson Fury. Ngannou doing well against Fury in October created an increased demand for him to fight the world’s other leading heavyweights, and with Joshua as marketable as he already is – especially given how good he looked against ...
David Haye has told Anthony Joshua he can’t risk trading with Francis Ngannou on Friday evening. Joshua and Ngannou fight in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that in the event of victory they will secure a future date with the winner of the two fights between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title. The 34-year-old Joshua impressed in ...
Jake Paul’s dreamlike participation in boxing has landed him the most significant living name in the sport with Thursday morning’s announcement that Mike Tyson and Paul will stage a “global live sports event” by boxing on Netflix July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Texas. How much boxing life remains in Tyson, 58, remains to be seen. What remains especially true ...
The IBF has ordered South Africa’s Sivenathi Nontshinga (13-1, 10 KOs) to defend his light flyweight world title in a rematch against his mandatory challenger, Christian Araneta (24-2, 19 KOs), of the Philippines. Nontshinga recaptured the IBF world title on Feb. 16 in an immediate rematch with Adrian Curiel (24-5-1, 5KOs) in Oaxaca, Mexico. Last November, Curiel produced a shocking ...