South African junior bantamweight champion Phumelele “The Truth” Cafu has linked up with trainer and manager Colin Nathan.
Cafu is ranked No. 4 by the IBF and No. 3 with the WBO.
“Yes, it's true, I’ve joined Nomakanjani [Nathan’s nickname in South Africa],”…
Daniel Dubois says Anthony Joshua is his “next step,” and he’ll “do it” after his surprise eighth-round TKO victory over Filip Hrgovic (17-1, 14 KOs) to win the IBF interim heavyweight title on Saturday night in Riyadh. Dubois is confident that he’ll defeat Joshua.
Joshua…
On Friday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analysts Paulie Malignaggi and Chris Algieri parse out the latest details of the Ryan Garcia PEDs-testing saga. While Malignaggi puts the odds of supplement contamination in “Mega Millions” territory and Algieri notes that the timing and trace…
Promoter Eddie Hearn revealed that his team captain, Deontay Wilder, was upset about his fight against Zhilei Zhang being stopped in the fifth round. He felt that it shouldn’t have been.
The referee, Kieran McCann, didn’t give Wilder (43-4-1, 42 KOs) a chance to see…
Zhilei Zhang (27-2-1, 22 KOs) called out Anthony Joshua after his fifth-round knockout win over Deontay Wilder (43-4-1, 42 KOs) on Saturday night in Riyadh.
Zhang says he’ll fight Joshua next if he doesn’t have an opponent. Unfortunately for the 41-year-old Zhang, promoter Eddie Hearn…
Anthony Joshua would rather have been inside the ring than merely watching on Saturday night. He saw his prospective September opponent, Daniel Dubois, beat Filip Hrgovic in Saudi Arabia, then witnessed his long-time nemesis Deontay Wilder surely reach the end of the line against Zhilei…
In the Queensberry vs Matchroom 5v5, Frank Warren’s Queensberry team was dominant as Zhilei Zhang knocked out the former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder in the fifth round of the main event and completed the sweep of Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom squad.
The inaugural 5v5 event…
Promoter Eddie Hearn says Daniel Dubois, the new IBF interim heavyweight champion, could be next for Anthony Joshua to fight in September at Wembley after Dubois’ eighth-round technical knockout of Filip Hrgovic on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.
Hearn’s Meeting with Turki…
Wilder fought most of the fight with his back against the ropes. Wilder averaged 3 landed punches per round. Zhang didn’t do much more than Wilder, but was more consistent in throwing and landing power punches. Wilder was actually having his best round, landing three…