David Benavidez may have made the wrong move by choosing to face highly skilled WBA ‘regular’ light heavyweight champion David Morrell on February 1st.
Benavidez (29-0, 24 KOs) had been swerving the Cuban Morrell (11-0, 9 KOs) for the last two years, ignoring his callouts…
WBA Cruiserweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez needs to show he’s for real on Saturday night in his unification fight against WBA champion Chris Billiam-Smith at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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It’s going to be a fight where Zurdo…
Oscar Collazo, the undefeated WBO strawweight champion from Puerto Rico, knows he has more than a belt on the line this Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This night is also about showing that the little guys belong on the big cards.
The unification fight…
Mike Tyson took a swipe at Jake Paul at Thursday’s weigh-in | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
Mike Tyson took a swipe at Jake Paul at Thursday’s weigh-in. Mike Tyson slapped Jake Paul at Thursday’s weigh-in ahead of their…
Jake Paul went into full WWE mode after being slapped in the face by Mike Tyson in what many felt looked 100% scripted on both fighter’s part during Thursday’s weigh-in face-off. Paul’s acting ability was puerile and underdramatized, not appearing even remotely authentic. It looked…
Hall of Fame promoter Don King and Mike Tyson were once a dynamic duo who dominated boxing as “Iron” Mike became the youngest heavyweight champion of the world in 1986, then reigned supreme until a shocking night in Tokyo when Buster Douglas knocked him out…
Oscar De La Hoya says he hopes promoter Eddie Hearn keeps his word to make the fight between Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis and Vergil Ortiz Jr. next at 154 for Vergil’s WBC interim junior middleweight title.
Hearn had said that he wanted to make the between…
IRVING, Texas – On his way to weigh in for his contest with Ben Askren in April 2021, Jake Paul turned to his team and mused, “Guys, I have a crazy idea: What if I fought Mike Tyson?” It was a notion that his trainer,…
Deep and vast as it is, even the internet lacks the capacity to contain all of boxing’s problems. Attempting to litanize them here is a Sysyphean task that, quite frankly, isn’t worth being crushed by the rolling mass of territorial promoters and three-letter leeches. Besides,…