Giovanni Cabrera aims to win a world title, but his goal extends beyond personal glory. He hopes to use his title to advocate for a union in boxing, seeking to secure basic benefits for fighters that they currently lack.
Cabrera will take a step…
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Considering that the 2023 Fighter of the Year race wasn’t decided until after Naoya Inoue fought on December 26, it’s safe to say the midpoint of the year — which we just reached as Sunday became Monday — is a bit early to be deciding…
What became obvious Saturday night is that boxing has developed a new marquee fighter in Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez, the repeat junior bantamweight champion who smiled through a knockdown and then made his veteran-champion foe suffer with a devastating finishing body blow.
The 24-year-old Rodriguez’s…
.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "Act natural: Former kickboxer Giorgio Visioli follows instincts in ring")
Last November, Giorgio Visioli walked to the ring at a sparsely populated 3Arena in Dublin, just another young hopeful making a low-profile debut deep on the undercard of the rematch between undisputed super lightweight champion Chantelle Cameron and Katie Taylor.
Eighty-one seconds and one…
The eight-round bout featuring lightweight star Abdullah Mason against Puerto Rican veteran Luis Lebron at Newark’s Prudential Center on Saturday has been elevated to the ESPN main card, which is headlined by Shakur Stevenson’s WBC lightweight title defense against Artem Harutyunyan.
On…
Giovanni Cabrera is a 29-year-old lightweight who hails from Chicago and currently trains at the Wild Card Boxing club in Los Angeles. In a recent interview with BoxingScene, Cabrera (22-1, 7 KOs) discussed his upcoming bout against William Zepeda, scheduled for Saturday in Ontario, California,…
_1682092547.jpg?w=765&resize=765,435&ssl=1 "‘Relentless’ Alen Babic big enough to wear Johnny Fisher down")
Paschal Collins has dismissed suggestions that Alen Babic is too small to test Johnny Fisher.
The rivals fight at heavyweight on Saturday at the Copper Box Arena in London, where the undefeated Fisher, 25, is the favourite to win.
Babic, 33 and from Croatia, is…
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Rhiannon Dixon makes the first defence of her WBO lightweight title against Terri Harper on the undercard of Jack Catterall-Regis Prograis in Manchester on August 24.
Dixon, 29, earned the vacant title when she outpointed Karen Elizabeth Carabajal on the undercard of Zelfa Barrett’s victory…
Dennis McCann will get his chance to clean up the one blotch on his 15-0-1 (8 KOs) record when he rematches Ionut Baluta on July 27, 11 months after they battled to a technical draw. The 12-rounder, which is for the vacant European junior-featherweight title,…