By Abu Mahmood: On September 14th, Edgar Berlanga (22-0-0, 17KOs) challenges for the unified super middleweight WBO, WBA, and WBC championships in his first world title shot. In the other corner, looking to defend and retain these world titles, is Canelo Álvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs).…
Tim Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) faces IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (22-0, 16 KOs) in a non-PPV event on October 19th on PBC on Prime Video at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Tszyu’s Road Back to Championship Gold
It’s taken Tszyu, 29,…
Shakur Stevenson is training with Terence Crawford to prepare for the defense of his WBC lightweight title against Joe Cordina in their odd undercard headliner on October 12th at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
If Shakur is getting paid five million for this…
Karen Chukhadzian’s promoters at P2M Box Promotion have won the purse bid for a fight against IBF welterweight champion Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis for November, topping the bid by Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn by $250,000.
This is terrible news for Boots Ennis, and his career hopes…
Naoya Inoue will stay at 122 to defend his undisputed super bantamweight title next against #1 IBF and WBO contender Sam Goodman on December 24th in Tokyo, Japan.
Nakatani on the Undercard in December
On the undercard of that fight will be undefeated WBC bantamweight…
Promoter Eddie Hearn reportedly will have Jaron ‘Boots’s Ennis defending against his IBF mandatory Karen Chukhadzhian in his next title defense on November 9th in his hometown of Philadelphia.
The $500,000 Stumbling Block
Hearns told Michael Benson he has a “super show” planned for November.…
Undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue (28-0, 25 KOs) stopped a very old-looking TJ Doheny (26-5, 20 KOs) in the seventh round on Tuesday night at the Ariake Arena, Tokyo, Japan.
(Credit: Naoki Fukuda)
The 37-year-old Irish native Doheny abruptly quit in the seventh round…
On the Top Rank card that featured Naoya Inoue vs TJ Doheny, Andy Hiraoka defeated Ismael Barroso (25-5-2, 23 KOs) as he scored a ninth round TKO victory and won the Interim WBA super-lightweight title.
The 41-year-old Barroso had a difficult time establishing his offense…
At Ariake Arena in Koto-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, before a sellout crowd on Tuesday over ESPN+, Naoya “Monster” Inoue, the IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO World Super Bantamweight champion, with a record of 28-0 (25 KOs), weighing 122 pounds, from Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, stopped southpaw TJ…