January 2025 – Page 117 – Sugar Bert Boxing

BoxingScene January 6, 2025

How appendicitis delayed the return of ‘Right Hook Roxy’

Women’s featherweight Iyana “Right Hook Roxy” Verduzco thought her third pro fight would take place at the end of 2024, until an unfortunate sparring session led to the realization that she required surgery. Verduzco will now fight Lindsey Ellis in a six-round bout at…

BoxingScene January 5, 2025

Donald Curry’s cry for help

Donovan Curry, son of the legendary Lone Star Cobra, Donald, the Hall of Fame welterweight, has taken to social media once more to issue a plea for help for his father. Curry is now 63 years old but life after boxing has been an…

EastSideBoxing January 5, 2025

David Nyika: I’ll Prove Jai Opetaia Is Not Indestructible

IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia told challenger David Nyika that he’d got an image in his head that he’s some “indestructible dude,” and that’s not the case. Opetaia admits that he’s not indestructible, so he works so hard to “level up.” Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs)…

BoxingNews24 January 5, 2025

Can Naoya Inoue Maintain Dominance At Featherweight?

The undefeated Japanese Naoya Inoue, at 31 years old, will face the British Sam Goodman on January 24 at the Ariake Arena, Koto-Ku, in Tokyo, Japan. In a fight that looks like a formality for Inoue, and should easily win. Goodman (19-0, 8 KOs) is…

BoxingScene January 5, 2025

Fights affected by adverse conditions

As I write this on a Sunday morning in Vermont, the snow plows are hard at work outside (which is normal for this time of the year), while farther south, Washington, D.C. is preparing itself for six to 10 inches of snowfall (which is not).…

BoxingNews24 January 5, 2025

Is Opetaia Vulnerable To Nyika’s Power? Champion Shows Signs Of Pressure

Jai Opetaia predicts he will “hurt” David Nyika and “put him to sleep” on Wednesday night in their headliner at the Gold Coast Convention Centre, Broadbeach, Australia. Opetaia’s Anger IBF cruiserweight champion Opetaia (26-0, 20 KOs) went from 1 to 10 on the anger scale…

BoxingScene January 5, 2025

Longtime Teiken Gym manager Haru Nagano dies at age 99

Haru Nagano, longtime manager at the Teiken Gym in Tokyo, Japan, has died at age 99, the WBC announced Sunday. Nagano “was a fundamental essential for the enormous number of fighters who have passed through its prestigious portals,” the WBC wrote in a…

BoxingScene January 5, 2025

Who will be considered the pound-for-pound king in 12 months’ time?

There will never be an official or objective pound-for-pound list in boxing, for it is only ever a matter of opinion. Yet that still doesn't diminish the fun of trying to place the world's best fighters in some sort of order. It is even more…

BoxingNews24 January 5, 2025

Kid Austin To “Overwhelm” Shakur Stevenson If Hand Injury Returns

Sparring partner Kevin Johnson says Shakur Stevenson will be in trouble if his surgically repaired right-hand breaks down in his fight against Floyd ‘Kid Austin’ Schofield on February 22nd in Riyadh. Johnson predicts a victory for Stevenson if he’s healthy, but he could lose if…

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