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Trainer Robert Garcia says the reason Hamzah Sheeraz could knock out Edgar Berlanga and not Canelo Alvarez is that the Mexican superstar no longer tries to score knockouts. He just wants to win without sustaining a lot of punishment. “Canelo doesn’t go for the knockout…

It seems Roy Jones is still bristling, at least somewhat, over the way fellow great Floyd Mayweather recently clapped back at him, this for having the nerve to say how, in his opinion, Sugar Ray Leonard would have bested Mayweather had the two fought in…

Josh Kelly says he’d rather fight for a world title next against Bakhram Murtazaliev or Xander Zayas than to fight #4 WBO-ranked 154-lb contender Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis. He states that he’ll fight ‘Boots’ if he must in a WBO title eliminator, and he believes he’d…

At the risk of becoming Gervonta “Tank” Davis’s harshest critic, former champ turned pundit Tim Bradley has again stated his opinion on Tank, a fighter he says is “one foot in, one foot out” as far as being dedicated to the sport of boxing. Speaking…

Fight fans know the Ike Ibeabuchi story, or they know large chunks of it, anyway. Once a special heavyweight talent, a man who seemed to have it all: immense skill, great physical strength as well as conditioning, hurtful, damaging punching power, a very solid chin…

Brian Norman Jr. says Devin Haney is going to be “trapped’ inside the ring with the “Tazmanian Devil” on November 22nd in their fight in Riyadh. WBO welterweight champion Norman Jr. (28-0, 21 KOs) states that Haney won’t be able to escape the pressure that…

Eddie Hearn revealed today that an offer has been sent to #3 WBO Josh Kelly for a fight against Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis for a WBO 154-lb title eliminator. Riyadh Money’s Impact Hearn isn’t optimistic that Kelly (17-1-1, 9 KOs) will accept what he calls a…

Promoter Bob Arum is predicting a knockout for his fighter, Brian Norman Jr., in his title defense of his WBO welterweight belt against Devin Haney on November 22nd. Arum believes that Norman Jr. (28-0, 21 KOs) is younger and more “live” than Haney (32-0, 15…

Yes, you read that right. Ike “The President” Ibeabuchi — a man who last fought when Napster was a thing — is climbing out of a 25-year abyss to fight Danny “The Brixton Hammer” Williams, a fighter who’s somehow still vertical after 88 professional scraps,…