Rafael Espinoza says he’s improved since his previous fight against the former WBO featherweight champion Robeisy Ramirez last year on December 9th, and he’s going to be ready to defeat him a second time this Saturday, December 7th at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona.…
His Excellency Turki Alalshikh reports the pay-per-view price for the February 22nd Riyadh Season card is 19.99 in the UK and $25.99 in the U.S. and “the rest of the world.” It’s an outstanding price for the six fights that were announced today on the…
Israil Madrimov will face Serhii Bohachuk this month in a 12-round fight on December 21st, then quickly return 63 days later to challenge Vergil Ortiz Jr. for his WBC interim junior middleweight title on February 22nd. Both fights are in Riyadh.
Running The Gauntlet
If…
The Riyadh Season card is now officially announced for February 22nd, with a couple of surprises. In the headliner, undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev will defend against Dmitry Bivol in a rematch, which most fans felt deserved to be at the top of the…
Vergil Ortiz Jr’s manager, Rick Mirigian, says there will not be any second chances for Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis to ever get an opportunity to fight his Virg after he chose not to face him on the February 22nd card.
No Second Chances
Mirigian told Boxingscene,…
Vergil Ortiz Jr. is interested in moving up to 160 to challenge Erislandy Lara for his WBA middleweight title next rather than defend his WBC interim 154-lb belt against Xander Zayas on February 22nd.
Boxing insider Fernando Sabatini reports that Vergil Jr’s team doesn’t prefer…
On Saturday night, November 30th, at the ACX1 Studios in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Swift Promotions Tale of Garcia 4’s main event was a brief boxing match, as Quincey “Quiet Storm” Williams stopped Kevin Beltran Aguirre in the first round.
It was a short night…
Oscar De La Hoya gleefully posted an emoji showing his fighter, Vergil Ortiz Jr., holding a prized duck with the head of Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis on X today, in a gotcha moment, making one of promoter Eddie Hearn’s best fighters look bad.
Hearn said in…
Roy Jones Jr. feels that Dmitry Bivol must be aggressive and look for the knockout to defeat undisputed light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev in their rematch on February 22nd in Riyadh.
The boxing great Roy Jr. says Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) fought well in the…