2024 – Page 120 – Sugar Bert Boxing

BoxingNews24 October 30, 2024

Jaron Ennis Must Keep His IBF Belt: Life Would Be Hard At 154

IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis (32-0, 29 KOs) is better off staying at 147 rather than venturing up to 154 to gamble in the shark-infested waters in that deep division. Staying at 147 is Boots Ennis’ best shot at becoming a star, and he…

BoxingNews24 October 30, 2024

Keyshawn Davis: Andy Cruz Isn’t Ready

Keyshawn Davis says a fight against Cuban 2020 Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz is a “priority,” but he “isn’t ready” to fight him. Davis (11-0, 7 KOs), who was beaten four times by Cruz, states that a fight against Cruz (4-0, 2 KOs) has to…

BoxingScene October 30, 2024

A brush with jail and precious time with Muhammad Ali in Zaire

Sportswriter Jerry Izenberg covered a golden age of heavyweight boxing and 50 years ago today, he spent nearly two weeks in Zaire, Africa, where he was ringside to witness the historic Rumble in the Jungle. Now 94 years of age, Izenberg recalls the event, the…

BadLeftHook October 30, 2024

Pauls vs Bentley leads Dec. 7 “Magnificent Seven” show at Wembley

Lawrence Okolie makes his heavyweight debut and Sam Noakes meets Ryan Walsh on the undercard It is once again time for Frank Warren to ape the aesthetic of a classic Western that itself aped the aesthetic of one of Akira Kurosawa’s finest, as Queensberry…

BoxingScene October 30, 2024

Padraig McCrory and Leonard Carillo meet in ‘shootout’ on ProBox TV on Friday

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…

BoxingScene October 30, 2024

Lennox Lewis recalls his Rumble in the Jungle inspiration

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…

BoxingScene October 30, 2024

Mexico’s Marco Verde, a 2024 Olympic silver medalist, turns pro

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…

EastSideBoxing October 30, 2024

Malignaggi Criticizes Gervonta Davis’ Selective Matchmaking

Paulie Malignaggi lit into Gervonta Davis for his career habit of fighting weak opposition, choosing not to fight certain guys that were a threat to beating him, like Vasily Lomachenko. Tank didn’t show interest in fighting Lomachenko years when he was younger, but when we…

BoxingScene October 30, 2024

BoxingScene’s Midweek Mailbag: Canelo Alvarez vs. Chris Eubank Jr.; time for Prograis and Hatton to retire

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?…

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