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Tevin Farmer insists that William Zepeda won’t make it to the Shakur Stevenson fight in February. He intends to defeat the #1 rated lightweight contender Zepeda (31-0, 27 KOs) in their fight on November 16th at The Venue in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The former IBF…

Terence Crawford and Israil Madrimov surprisingly have been ranked in the top two spots in Ring Magazine’s updated rankings for the 154-lb division. The new star, IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs(, is in the #3 spot, which doesn’t make sense given…

Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and challenger Tyson Fury will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, October 23rd, for their press conference to begin marketing their rematch on December 21st at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The press conference starts at noon ET/5:00 p.m. UK. Former…

At a recent movie convention, this ESB contributor was able to spend some time with veteran actor David Clennon (“The Thing,” “The Greatest,” “Being There,” “Gone Girl,” “The Couch Trip,” “The Right Stuff”) – and the 81 year old had some interesting things to say…

The new WBC heavyweight rankings have been released, and there is a new name in the current top 10. Britain’s Lawrence Okolie, who won the WBO belt down at cruiserweight and the WBC bridgerweight belt, a title he chose to vacate, is now ranked five…

Basing their set of rankings on the following: Overall record, titles, ability in the ring, the folks at Give Me Sport have taken on the lofty task of coming up with the ten greatest American heavyweights in history, of all time. The list, certain to…

Chris Algieri points out that Tim Tszyu is now being viewed by fans as being washed up after suffering his second consecutive defeat last Saturday night in a third-round knockout loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev in Orlando, Flordia. Algieri feels that fans…

#3-ranked contender Erickson Lubin says he’s ready to challenge IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) next. Lubin states that he was supposed to have fought Murtazaliev, but the negotiations didn’t work out. He’s now ready to fight him following his third-round knockout…

Teofimo Lopez’s promoter, Bob Arum, says Teo “makes no logical sense” with his claims that his contract with Top Rank is no longer valid. Arum states that Teofimo (21-1, 13 KOs) signed a second contract extension when he scheduled him to face Sandor Martin on December…