Due to the forecast of rain, the public workouts ahead of Vasiliy Lomachenko’s vacant IBF lightweight title fight with George Kambosos were moved indoors, and as the final stages of the build-up ticked by, the fighters shared as astonishingly long-face off, that lasted more than…
In the WBC’s new rankings, Errol Spence has been moved to #1 WBC at 154 for junior middleweight champion champion Sebastian Fundora.
Leapfrogging the Competition
The World Boxing Council’s decision to elevate Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) to the #1 spot for WBC champion Fundora’s title…
Rising 154-pound star Xander Zayas is set to headline his first event when he faces the former WBO junior-middleweight world champion Patrick Teixeira (34-4, 25 KOs) on Saturday night June 8th at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, live on ESPN.
Nineteen years ago,…
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Sandor Martin is Devin Haney’s mandatory challenger, but previously stepped aside to allow the Ryan Garcia fight After stepping aside to allow WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney to face Ryan Garcia, mandatory challenger…
The WBC has ordered light welterweight champion Devin Haney (35-1, 15 KOs) to defend against his mandatory challenger Sandor Martin (42-3, 15 KOs).
Martin has been waiting for his chance to fight for a world title, and he’s not likely to accept a step aside.…
Basildon’s Danny Dignum, 16-1-1 (9 KOs), and Denzel Bentley, 18-3-1 (15 KOs), of Battersea both successfully made the middleweight limit ahead of the contest that headlines Saturday night’s Queensberry promotion at London’s York Hall.
Bentley and Dignum both came up short in fights with…
Former WBO cruiserweight champ and all-round crowd pleaser Marco Huck will launch a comeback next month, up at heavyweight. Huck, who is now 39 years of age and has not boxed for almost four full years, will face the much bigger Evgenios Lazaridis on June…
Devin Haney has been ordered by the WBC to defend his light welterweight title against mandatory Sandor Martin next. The purse bids for the Haney vs. Martin fight are on June 18th.
Will Haney Seek Other Options?
It remains to be seen if Haney and…
Trainer Shane McGuigan said Caroline Dubois will have her eye on newly-minted IBF lightweight champion Beatriz Ferreira after the Brazilian won the vacant crown with a Yanina del Carmen Lescano.
McGuigan, who has always championed Dubois’s prospects, can see the two meeting in the…
We may have reached the point where there are pretty much no limits when it comes to the hyping and the selling of a fight. From “acting” out and out crazy (see Ryan Garcia’s wild run-up to his fight with Devin Haney, with Garcia doing…