Rafael Espinoza will make his first title defense on June 21
Rafael Espinoza makes his first title defense in June. Rafael Espinoza will make the first defense of his WBO featherweight title on Friday, June 21, headlining a Top…
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Raymond Muratalla meets Tevin Farmer in the co-feature Mike Coppinger reports that unified middleweight champion Janibek Alimkhanuly’s first fight of 2024 will see him battle IBF no. 4 Andrei Mikhailovich atop a July 13th…
Devin Haney’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, wants a lifetime ban for Ryan Garcia if his positive tests for the PED Ostarine are proven not to be an accident from his win last month over Dev.
Ryan ruined Haney’s image with the pummeling he gave him in…
Promoter Eddie Hearn wants a lifetime ban for Ryan Garcia if he’s found to have intentionally used performance enhancing drugs [PEDs] for his fight against Devin Haney on April 20th.
Hearn’s Stance on PEDs
Hearn says he “really hopes” Ryan (25-1, 20 KOs) didn’t intentionally…
In the WBC’s new rankings, Errol Spence has been moved to #1 WBC at 154 for junior middleweight champion champion Sebastian Fundora.
Leapfrogging the Competition
The World Boxing Council’s decision to elevate Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) to the #1 spot for WBC champion Fundora’s title…
Rising 154-pound star Xander Zayas is set to headline his first event when he faces the former WBO junior-middleweight world champion Patrick Teixeira (34-4, 25 KOs) on Saturday night June 8th at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, live on ESPN.
Nineteen years ago,…
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Sandor Martin is Devin Haney’s mandatory challenger, but previously stepped aside to allow the Ryan Garcia fight After stepping aside to allow WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney to face Ryan Garcia, mandatory challenger…
The WBC has ordered light welterweight champion Devin Haney (35-1, 15 KOs) to defend against his mandatory challenger Sandor Martin (42-3, 15 KOs).
Martin has been waiting for his chance to fight for a world title, and he’s not likely to accept a step aside.…
Former WBO cruiserweight champ and all-round crowd pleaser Marco Huck will launch a comeback next month, up at heavyweight. Huck, who is now 39 years of age and has not boxed for almost four full years, will face the much bigger Evgenios Lazaridis on June…