Of all of boxing’s clichés, few hold more truth than the claim that a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter. Nothing is more certain to make a fighter unhappy than struggling to make weight. The feeling can last for weeks on end and comes with a growing feeling of dread about just how bad the final 24 hours before the ...
David Benavidez is not sitting on his hands waiting to win the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez sweepstakes. Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs) is looking to make his 175lbs debut by securing a fight with former light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk in June, it was revealed on Thursday. They will contest the WBC interim light heavyweight title, the WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced. ...
Cain Sandoval and Javier Molina is an interesting fight and the co-feature of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions on Friday (February 23) at Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. Sandoval has been a tour-de-force as a pro. The 21-year-old from Sacramento, California is 11-0 with 11 knockouts in the junior welterweight division. Added to that, he has only gone 28 rounds. Yet Molina was a ...
Jack Catterall expects consistency to be key when he renews hostilities with Josh Taylor on April 27. Although he was inactive for 15 months after his controversial loss to Taylor in February 2022, Catterall has spent almost every day since at Jamie Moore’s gym in Astley, Greater Manchester. He beat Darragh Foley and Jorge Linares during 2023, and although those ...
When Oscar Valdez takes on Liam Wilson on March 29 at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, it will be a return to the scene of emotionally crushing defeats to Emanuel Navarrete for both. Massive underdog Wilson had Navarrete down and nearly out when they fought last February, only to get TKO’d in the ninth. Slight favorite Valdez went ...
Former world cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has warned Anthony Joshua that his inside fighting game will need to be on point ahead of his fight with Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Saudi Arabia. Joshua has won three on the bounce since back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, against Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin. Former UFC champion Ngannou has ...
Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Frank Martin have reportedly agreed terms to fight for the WBA lightweight title. The rivals, according to ESPN, are on course to fight either late in the spring or early in the summer, on a Premier Boxing Champions on Amazon Prime Video pay-per-view. Davis, 29 and the defending champion, last fought in April 2023, when at ...
Boxing returns to the Sony Hall in Times Square on March 7 after Larry Goldberg committed himself to providing a launching pad for the next generation of local fighters in a city that is famous for its boxing. He is keeping boxing alive in Manhattan. The bouts included are Gleason’s Gym standout, featherweight Ariel Lopez (20-1-1) fights Gregorio Lebron (24-6) in an eight-round main event. ...
Daniel Dubois is out as co-challenger for the vacant EBU heavyweight title and Joe “Juggernaut” Joyce (15-2) is in. In the other corner is still German Granit Shala (15-0). The EBU has set February 29 as the deadline for purse bids. Joyce is still lined up to fight Kash Ali (21-2) March 16 in Birmingham. …………………………… Icelandic heavyweight Gunnar Kolbeinn ...
Antonio Vargas is hoping to reclaim the glory that was once promised to him. The 2016 U.S. Olympian will fight Jonathan Rodriguez in a WBA bantamweight world title eliminator on Saturday (February 24) at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. The bout will be on the Edgar Berlanga versus Padraig McCrory undercard, broadcast on DAZN. The winner is the mandatory ...