Daily Archives: December 2, 2024

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is interested in moving up to 160 to challenge Erislandy Lara for his WBA middleweight title next rather than defend his WBC interim 154-lb belt against Xander Zayas on February 22nd. Boxing insider Fernando Sabatini reports that Vergil Jr’s team doesn’t prefer…

On Saturday night, November 30th, at the ACX1 Studios in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Swift Promotions Tale of Garcia 4’s main event was a brief boxing match, as Quincey “Quiet Storm” Williams stopped Kevin Beltran Aguirre in the first round. It was a short night…

Oscar De La Hoya gleefully posted an emoji showing his fighter, Vergil Ortiz Jr., holding a prized duck with the head of Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis on X today, in a gotcha moment, making one of promoter Eddie Hearn’s best fighters look bad. Hearn said in…

Roy Jones Jr. feels that Dmitry Bivol must be aggressive and look for the knockout to defeat undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev in their rematch on February 22nd in Riyadh. The boxing great Roy Jr. says Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) fought well in the…

Journeyman Dillian Whyte has come up with the winning strategy for ‘The Gypsy King’ Tyson Fury to dethrone unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21st. According to Whyte, Fury’s strategy to beat Usyk boils down to using the same roughhouse tactics he used to defeat…

On social media, Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya confirmed that his fighter, Floyd ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield, will face Shakur Stevenson for his WBC lightweight crown. Shakur responded to De La Hoya’s message, telling him that he’s coming for his other highly ranked fighter,…