ESPN will bring plenty of live boxing back to its airwaves during the second week of June. Promoter Bob Arum told BoxingScene.com that the network will televise three live cards that week. The first card will be broadcast June 9, a Tuesday night, followed by live telecasts the nights of Thursday, June 11, and Saturday, June 13. Arum isn’t at ...
UFC President Dana White has said he plans to run a UFC event on 30th May and it looks he has a headline fight which will provide a big shake up of the UFC’s vaunted welterweight division. Former UFC welterweight champion Tyron Woodley will take on Brazil’s Gilbert Burns in the night’s main event. The news was initially confirmed by ...
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Two time Olympic gold medal winner Robeisy Ramirez is hoping to return to the ring on June 9 in Las Vegas, if the Nevada Athletic Commission gives the go-ahead to Top Rank, the boxer’s promoter. That show is likely to be headlined by Ramirez’s amateur rival, WBO featherweight champion Shakur Stevenson, who had to settle for a silver medal after Ramirez ...
Danny Garcia hasn’t been given a definitive answer from Al Haymon, but he expects to fight either Errol Spence Jr. or Manny Pacquiao sometime in the fall. The Athletic reported Monday that Spence likely will face Garcia in a FOX Sports Pay-Per-View main event on an undetermined date in the fall. Philadelphia’s Garcia discussed those two options Tuesday during an ...
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The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame regretfully announces the postponement of its 2020 induction Weekend until summer of 2021. The severity of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the subsequent uncertainty resulting from it, caused NVBHOF President and CEO Michelle Corrales-Lewis to make the announcement. The 8th annual weekend spectacular had been scheduled for August 7-8 at Red Rock Hotel in Las ...
There are few men on this earth who have had a sample of what both UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and heavyweight knockout artist Francis Ngannou have to offer in the cage. Alistair Overeem is one of the said unlucky few, having fought Ngannou in the UFC’s Octagon and being a former training partner of Jones. And as talk ...
Bob Arum offered Vasiliy Lomachenko and Teofimo Lopez interim bouts recently. Lomachenko could’ve fought an opponent other than Lopez in June. Lopez would’ve been able to face someone other than Lomachenko in July. Neither lightweight champion was interested in any bout but theirs, thus their promoter hopes to put it together for September. “We wanted to stall for time, until ...
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Cecilia Braekhus wants to continue to tread new ground and break down more barriers as she talks to Chris Lloyd in the latest episode of Matchroom Boxing’s Podcast ‘The Lockdown Tapes’. Braekhus (36-0 9 KOs) has dominated the welterweight division for 11 years now, and should her proposed clash with Jessica McCaskill (8-2 3 KOs) go ahead when boxing returns, ...
SHOWTIME has released the official trailer and poster for its upcoming award-winning documentary RINGSIDE, premiering on Friday, June 12 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. Filmed over the course of nine years by award-winning director Andre Hörmann, RINGSIDE chronicles the dramatic upbringing of two boxing prodigies and follows the divergent paths they take as they navigate life’s uncertainties on the South Side ...
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Paulie Malignaggi completely understands the psychological impact boxing before very few people will have on fighters that feed off crowds. The retired two-division champion remembers how important fans were to him on fight night – whether they cheered or booed him. That’s why the Showtime analyst acknowledges how eliminating fans will worsen atmospheres in a post-pandemic boxing world. In most ...