Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’ coach, Kenny Ellis, came to the defense of his fighter over the backlash from fans over his choice of super featherweight Lamont Roach Jr. for his next title defense of his WBA lightweight belt on December 14th in Houston.
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Terence Crawford seems to have a single-minded pursuit of Canelo Alvarez in progress for now, but the pound-for-pound elite and unbeaten four-division champion is finding it hard to deny that he, too, is being targeted.
The past week has seen WBA junior-middleweight champion Crawford…
Promoter Eddie Hearn is confident that he can put a unification fight together for Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and one of the other champions at 147 in the first quarter of 2025.
Boots (32-0, 29 KOs) has a title defense of his IBF welterweight belt against…
There’s a scene in the Will Ferrell film “Kicking and Screaming” where Robert Duvall’s character is trying to compare his manhood and success with Mike Ditka’s.
“I can’t hear you,” Ditka responds, flashing his Chicago Bears’ 1985 Super Bowl season memento, “my ring is…
Tyson Fury is a classic example of a person with a victim mentality going into his rematch with WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight champion Olekandr Usyk on December 21st. Fury still believes he was a victim of the judges last time he fought Usyk (22-0,…
As the film “The Featherweight,” about the life of boxing great Willie Pep, enters wide release, this week a different BoxingScene contributor will reflect on a boxing biopic that resonates with them. Today: "Bleed for This."
At a cinema in the West End of…
Jai Opetaia is giving the edge to WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in his fight against unbeaten knockout machine Artur Beterbiev in eight days from now on October 12th. The IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia admits to being a fan of Bivol (23-0, 12 KOs),…
Promoter Eddie Hearn says William Zepeda will “duck” Shakur Stevenson in early 2025 rather than taking that fight. He doesn’t say why he thinks Zepeda would do that because he’s been hard, climbing the ranks to challenge Shakur for his WBC lightweight title.
Zepeda (31-0,…
While it is not unusual to hear that an amateur boxer about to turn pro has options from which to choose, rarely do these options include a completely new direction; a handbrake turn so sharp it would lead not only to whiplash but the end…