January 2025 – Page 108 – Sugar Bert Boxing

EastSideBoxing January 8, 2025

Eddie Hearn Eyes Unification For Jai Opetaia As A Stepping Stone To Usyk Fight

Promoter Eddie Hearn says his plan to maneuver Jai Opetaia into a big fight against unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is to have Jai capture all the belts at cruiserweight first. Hearn wants Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) to follow the same route that Usyk did…

BoxingScene January 8, 2025

Workhorse Justis Huni ready to reap the rewards of demanding run

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – Justis Huni is targeting an overdue break after fighting Shaun Potgieter. Their heavyweight contest represents the chief support for the IBF cruiserweight title fight between Jai Opetaia and David Nyika at the Gold Coast Convention Centre on Wednesday evening, and…

BoxingNews24 January 7, 2025

Opetaia Vs Nyika: “He’s Trying To End What I’m Trying To Do!”

IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia says Davis Nyika is trying to end what he’s trying to accomplish with his career, and he won’t let him do that on Wednesday night at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, in Australia. A drained-looking Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs)…

BoxingScene January 7, 2025

Teremoana Jnr following in Jai Opetaia’s footsteps as returning hero

The Australian heavyweight Teremoana Jnr is relishing fighting in his home country for the first time in over two years after returning as one of their Olympic heroes. Wednesday’s promotion, led by Jai Opetaia-David Nyika at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Queensland, has…

BoxingNews24 January 7, 2025

Tim Bradley On Canelo: “Don’t Run From Crawford!”

Tim Bradley got on his soapbox this week to pressure Canelo Alvarez to give Terence Crawford the fight that he’s been asking for against him. That’s the fight that Crawford, 37, urgently wants but has remained elusive to him due to his unwillingness to earn…

BoxingScene January 7, 2025

Austin Brooks to return in Tacoma on January 10 after disappointing draw

The last time junior lightweight Austin Brooks left the ring, it followed an unsatisfying draw against Aram Avagyan in June at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Washington. Brooks, 12-0-1 (5 KOs), is returning nearly seven months later as part of the first major…

EastSideBoxing January 7, 2025

Canelo Alvarez, Terence Crawford, Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua: Boxing’s Biggest Fight Debate

Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn believes a fight between the aging former heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury is the biggest fight “Commercially” in boxing. People in the U.S. and even in the UK disagree. They feel that the moment of high interest in the…

BoxingScene January 7, 2025

What do you want to see less of in 2025?

We start every year with hope that things will be different, perhaps better, than they were the previous year. and in boxing our approach is no different. In boxing, there is always room for improvement. Lucas Ketelle: I want to see fewer…

BoxingNews24 January 7, 2025

“You’re A Bum!” – Kambosos Explodes On Hitchins, Wants Him In June

Former unified lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. says he’ll make his debut at 140 in March and then challenge IBF light welterweight champ Richardson Hitchins for his belt in June or July. Hitchins (19-0, 7 KOs) called out the former one-hit wonder, Kambosos Jr. (21-3,…

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