As if two fighters nearing a title shot, bringing close to a 100 percent knockout rate isn’t enough, Saturday’s Vergil Ortiz-Serhii Bohachuk junior-middleweight bout now has the full attention of the sport’s new fight-making wizard, Saudi Arabia’s Turki Alalshikh.
Texas’ Ortiz (21-0, 21 KOs),…
Last weekend, Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov reportedly lost $10 million in a Riyadh Season event at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. His Excellency Turki Alalshikh put on the event staged in Southern California rather than Las Vegas.
A Main Event That Poisoned the…
On Sept. 21, Anthony Joshua will face IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium.
Should Joshua, 28-3 (25 KOs), beat his fellow Londoner, he will recapture the belt he first won against Charles Martin more than eight years ago. Yet this is a…
Canelo Alvarez responded to His Excellency Turki Alalshikh’s critical post today with a crying emoji, signaling his indifference about his views. Indeed, Alvarez doesn’t seem bothered by Turki’s comments because he needs him and not vice versa.
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Turki’s Lecture and…
JK Rowling screamed ‘brutal injustice’, multiple half-baked reports were published on websites and even broadcast on news bulletins, and before we knew it a man had beaten up a woman inside a boxing ring.
The power of social media is currently in the spotlight,…
Who next for towering Chinese southpaw heavyweight Zhilei Zhang? It will not be Anthony Joshua, not next, not any time soon. So says “Big Bang” himself, who recently said on the MMA Hour that he fully believes AJ is scared of him, with Joshua’s promoter…
The Olympic boxing tournament is building towards a crescendo in Paris.
At recent editions of the Games, medallists from Team GB have stepped down from the podium to find professional promoters waiting with open cheque books. Things will be different this year and that…
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has hit a duster with his attempts to set up a fight between one of his favored fighters, Terence Crawford, and Canelo Alvarez.
With that fight off the table, fans want to see Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis vs. Crawford next. Fans want…
Vergil Ortiz Jr. says he’s embracing being the B-side for his headliner against WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk this Saturday, August 10th, at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas. The two fighters will battle live on DAZN, and the winner could potentially…