Since October 2023, heavyweight boxing has experienced a remarkable renaissance, and much of this revival can be attributed to the ambitious Riyadh Season, orchestrated by Turki Alalshikh As the Chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, Alalshikh has leveraged the country’s vast…
Trainer Jose Benavidez Sr. says his son, David Benavidez, is going to take David Morrell into the deep waters and drown him in their fight in 29 days on February 1st on PBC on Prime Video PPV in Las Vegas.
Jose Sr. feels that Benavidez…
Promoter Frank Warren is still upset about the scoring by some of the judges in his fighter, Tyson Fury’s, 12-round unanimous decision loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21st in Riyadh.
Warren still can’t understand how one of the…
Featherweight Ruben Villa has spent 22 years boxing. At 27, Villa says he feels like he has always been boxing. His boxing career has meant he has had to develop a lot of discipline which means dieting and training nearly always. In…
Paulie Malignaggi thinks heavyweight Martin Bakole should have been brought back for Turki Al-Shiekh’s cards in Riyadh after he upset the previously unbeaten Jared Anderson on the August 3rd card in Los Angeles, California.
Malignaggi says the fight was obviously about Anderson (17-1, 15 KOs),…
– What was your favorite fight of 2024? Chris Algieri: Sergey Lipinets versus Robbie Davies Jnr. It was back-and-forth action – an incredible fight. Knockdowns; blood; guts. Lipinets was the former champion kind of on his way down; it was Davies’ last chance of…
Anthony Joshua says his focus is on getting a fight against Tyson Fury in 2025. Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) wants to make the mega-fight against the recently beaten former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) soon.
Luring Fury Back
Fury, 36, has been lying…
Regis Prograis says he thinks Devin Haney shouldn’t take the rematch with Ryan Garcia next, but he believes he will for the money.
The former two-time light welterweight champion Prograis would like to see Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) take a tune-up first before facing Garcia…
WBA welterweight titleholder Eimantas Stanionis is seeking a unification fight. Stanionis returned to the ring in May to win a 12-round unanimous decision over Gabriel Maestre at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Stanionis, a 30-year-old from Lithuania, previously snapped a 25-month layoff…