“Adversity creates champions,” said light heavyweight contender Najee Lopez ahead of his “Wednesday Night Fights” clash against undefeated Steven Sumpter in an eight-round bout Wednesday at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida.
Lopez (10-0, 8 KOs), 24, was tested in his…
Former Shakur Stevenson’s opponent, Oscar Valdez, praised his aggressive effort to go for a knockout of Artem Harutyunyan last Saturday night at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
The former two-division world champion Valdez says he thought WBC lightweight champion Shakur (22-0, 10 KOs)…
David Morrell’s team had the Cuban abandon the super-middleweight division to light heavyweight because none of the best fighters at 168 were willing to face him. Canelo Alvarez and David Benavidez ignored him, neither of whom showed any interest in facing him.
Super Middleweight’s Cold…
Keith Mills, the manager of O’Shaquie Foster, is still trying to process the details of Foster's fight Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, and the controversial outcome that saw his fighter lose his WBC junior lightweight title to Robson Conceicao via a split decision.
One…
Abdullah Mason (14-0, 12 KOs) will be taking an eight-round stay-busy fight against Augustin Quintana (19-2-1, 12 KOs) on the undercard of Christian Mbilli vs. Sergiy Derevyanchenko on August 17th.
Quintana, 27, was knocked out recently by Juan Javier Carasco in the fifth round on…
Daniel Dubois’ promoter, Frank Warren, believes his fighter doesn’t need to get to Anthony Joshua early for him to knock him out on September 21st. He can KO him at any time in the fight, but it can happen faster if Joshua chooses to exchange.…
Raymond Muratalla hasn’t exactly been keeping a close watch on Tevin Farmer’s comeback. Nor does he believe he’ll be facing the same Farmer who won a world title back in 2018.
For Muratalla, fighting Farmer is just another obstacle in the way of his…
Lightweight contender Abdullah Mason faces Augustin Quintana (19-2-1, 12 KOs) on August 17th at the Centre Videotron in Quebec City. The event will be shown live on ESPN and ESPN+ at 10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT.
It had already been known that Mason would fight…
Liam Paro contributed to the recent transformation of the super-lightweight division when, as the underdog, he travelled to Puerto Rico to dethrone as IBF champion the feared Subriel Matias.
A year on from having to withdraw from a fight with the then-WBC champion Regis…
Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez is open to fighting Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez for the right money. if the fight happens, it would be another older great that the 24-year-old ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) could add to his resume.
If ‘Bam’ Rodriguez loses this fight to Roman…