Daily Archives: July 24, 2024

Rare is the moment in boxing when two supremely talented fighters are in their 20s, unbeaten, three-division champions, and free to fight each other. Lightweight champions Gervonta Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) are. Days after the veteran IBF lightweight…

Rare is the moment in boxing when two supremely talented fighters are in their 20s, unbeaten, three-division champions, and free to fight each other. Lightweight champions Gervonta Davis (30-0, 28 KOs) and Shakur Stevenson (22-0, 10 KOs) are. Days after the veteran IBF lightweight…

Lightweight Karlos Balderas and flyweight Daniel “Chucky” Barrera have been added to the “Hollywood Fight Nights” event scheduled for Aug. 31 at Chumash Casino Resort in Santa Ynez, California.  Balderas (14-2, 12 KOs), of nearby Santa Maria, California, will return against Dominican veteran William…

Purse bids for the fight between Tim Tszyu and Erickson Lubin have been cancelled. Representatives of Lubin, 28, informed the IBF that their fighter wouldn’t be “medically fit” to fight, BoxingScene understands; a date of July 30 had been set for purse bids for…

Vergil Ortiz Jr has dismissed suggestions he still needs to prove himself at junior middleweight when he fights Serhii Bohachuk on August 10. The 26 year old challenges Bohachuk for the Ukrainian’s WBC interim title at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay, in what represents his third…

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – It was a hastily made fight, the opponent invited on the heels of two losses in his last three fights, including a knockout defeat. Maybe that’s all anyone making matches for new WBA 140-pound champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz needs to know,…

Justin Figueroa fights in New Jersey this weekend and hopes to bring back a world title fight to the Boardwalk Hall, the same venue in New Jersey where his idol, Arturo Gatti, once lit up the boxing world. The 25-year-old is set to fight…