Promoter Tom Loeffler says Vergil Ortiz Jr’s busted-up face and two knockdowns are proof that he deserved a loss against WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk last Saturday night in their clash at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
Unfortunately for Loeffler and…
So much of what we’ve heard about Vergil Ortiz Jr. from Golden Boy Promotions’ executives in recent weeks is about some of the other junior middleweights Ortiz could face, whether it’s Terence Crawford or Tim Tszyu .
Of course, Golden Boy…
Golden Boy promoter Bernard Hopkins was still in denial about his fighter Vergil Ortiz Jr. having been knocked down twice by WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk last Saturday night at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas.
A Less Controversial Win?
Rather than…
It had been almost 15 months since Kenneth Sims Jr. last entered the ring. But now that the junior welterweight contender has returned — stopping late replacement opponent Jonathan Romero after five rounds on Saturday night — Sims feels ready to get back…
Blair Cobbs sees WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol in a near-unwinnable position going up against IBF, WBC, and WBO champ Artur Beterbiev in their undisputed championship on October 12th in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Beterbiev’s Power and Pressure
Cobbs feels that the short, powerful arm…
Although Vergil Ortiz will have adequately trained for it, and indeed one day expected it, still nothing can fully prepare a puncher for the first time their opponent soaks up everything they throw at them and hardly blinks. It is usually in this mome nt…
According to “The Bible of Boxing,” fight fans who love an all-Mexican showdown (and who the heck doesn’t!) are in luck. RingTV.com reports how Emanuel Navarrete and Oscar Valdez will shoot it out on December 7, this in a rematch of their August 2023 thriller,…
Trainer Jeff Mayweather says Vergil Ortiz Jr. didn’t deserve his win over WBC interim junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk last Saturday night.
Mayweather’s view that Vergil (22-0, 21 KOs) did not deserve his 12-round majority decision has been echoed by many fans on social media,…
When Anthony Joshua walks to the ring to fight Daniel Dubois for the IBF heavyweight title at Wembley Stadium in London, England, on September 21, 3,088 days will have passed since Joshua breezed past Charles Martin to first win the famous red belt.
Lots…
Camille Estephan’s journey to becoming the premier promoter in Canada began, appropriately enough, in a boxing gym.
Estephan grew up in Lebanon where, he told BoxingScene recently, “my father – and in fact the whole family on my father's side – boxed.” But he…