Daily Archives: October 30, 2024

BELFAST – Padraig McCrory and Leonard Carillo met for the penultimate time today at the final press conference ahead of their bout at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The contest that will be televised live on ProBox TV, in association with…

Heavyweight great Lennox Lewis was so inspired by the Rumble in the Jungle, he went about his own way trying to emulate it. Muhammad Ali famously toppled the previously indestructible George Foreman in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Africa, 50 years ago…

Marco Verde, a 2024 Olympic silver medalist, announced he will not wait to see the future of Olympic boxing and will instead enter professional boxing, enlisting Eddy Reynoso – the manager and trainer of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – as his manager. However, Reynoso will…

In this week’s mailbag, we tackle your thoughts on two potential fights (Canelo Alvarez vs. Chris Eubank Jr. and Naoya Inoue vs. Murodjon Akhmadaliev) and on two fighters you feel should retire (Regis Prograis and Campbell Hatton). Want to be featured in the mailbag?…

Anthony Olascuaga’s first defense of his WBO flyweight world title had ended abruptly and anticlimactically. More than a week later, it has now officially gone down as an Olascuaga victory. Olascuaga, a 25-year-old from Los Angeles, won the vacant title in July by knocking…