Ricky Hatton explains how Tyson Fury turned his life around training at his gym, to facing Deontay Wilder and then becoming heavyweight world champion again. Watch #FuryWilder3 exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office on October 9. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join
Month: October 2021
History • Issue • Premium Frankie Lucas and Carl Speare had an amateur rivalry with zest and needle ON May 4 1973 Frankie Lucas of the Croydon-based Sir Philip Game ABC beat Carl Speare of Liverpool in that year’s ABA middleweight final at the Empire Pool, Wembley. This was Lucas’ second straight ABA championship victory,
In a conversation with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, boxing analyst Timothy Bradley gives his take on the undisputed super middleweight unification between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. Bradley isn’t giving much of a chance to Plant in this fight, and says what we’ve been hearing all over the boxing world — that David
The president of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Mauricio Sulaiman, have high praise to the recent victory Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk, who last Saturday night, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, captured four heavyweight belts with a twelve round unanimous decision over Anthony Joshua. Usyk walked away with the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO world titles. A few days
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Hans Themistode A Canelo Alvarez win has essentially become a formality in the eyes of Timothy Bradley. The former two-division champion turned ESPN commentator will certainly tune in on November 6th, when Alvarez takes on IBF super middleweight champion, Caleb Plant. Although Bradley respects the 29-year-old wholeheartedly, he simply doesn’t see
Sep 29, 2021 Tyson Fury will defend the WBC heavyweight championship against Deontay Wilder on Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Their third fight is almost three years in the making, and along the way, their teams, other fighters and the legal system have all played a part.
Tyson Fury hasn’t completely dismissed Deontay Wilder’s ability to alter his style somewhat for their third fight. Fury, after all, drastically changed his own outlook in a relatively short time prior to their rematch in February 2020. Javan “SugarHill” Steward radically changed Fury’s approach before Fury fought Wilder a second time, when the huge heavyweight
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose “He lost to an amazing fighter,” former supermiddleweight titlist Carl Froch told iFL TV after witnessing Oleksandr Usyk’s impressive win over heavyweight multi-titlist Anthony Joshua last weekend, “probably one of the best southpaws operators of all time.” While there’s few if any who are willing to argue that Usyk
8:00 AM ET Jake Paul is expanding his footprint in the boxing world by signing one of its top female fighters. Most Valuable Promotions has signed Amanda Serrano, one of the best women’s fighters in the history of boxing, to a promotional deal, Paul and Serrano told ESPN. Paul, the YouTube-star-turned-prizefighter, and his adviser, Nakisa
Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko tells Sky Sports that he can empathize with what Anthony Joshua is currently going through now that he’s lost his titles and suffered the second defeat of his professional career, recently dropping a decision to Oleksandr Usyk. Klitschko reflects on when he lost two fights within a short period of
Opinion Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing The Opening Bell podcast takes a seismic event in the heavyweight division – Oleksandr Usyk’s win over Anthony Joshua in London OLEKSANDR USYK turned in a performance loaded with class and style to defeat Anthony Joshua last weekend. But what was it like to witness that from ringside? Is he that
History The greatest fight in heavyweight history ends the most compelling rivalry of them all MUHAMMAD ALI w rtd 14 JOE FRAZIEROctober 1, 1975; Philippine Coliseum, ManilaA FEW minutes before 11am on October 1, 1975, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier began the fight that would end their rivalry. After the frightfully punishing encounter, neither boxer
Boxers • Issue • Premium Meet Germaine Brown, who went to Belarus an underdog expected to lose, beat Dmitry Chudinov and now boxes on Sky this weekend When and why you started boxing:I started boxing when I was 15. They brought it to my school, an after-school activity. My brother was boxing down at Fitzroy
Adam Kownacki has had more time than he cares to remember to think about his first professional defeat. Waiting more than 18 months for his shot at redemption has helped Kownacki work on his flaws, though, particularly his obvious defensive deficiencies. The popular Polish heavyweight contender fully understands that he cannot be as reckless in
Posted on 09/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Canelo Alvarez has an unquestioned disdain for IBF super middleweight titleholder Caleb Plant. Although the two are scheduled to meet on November 6th, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada with the chance to become the division’s first undisputed champion, the pair couldn’t wait until their fight date
7:49 AM ET It’ll end up on giant screens and promotional posters and videos before they fight. When ring announcers welcome them at the beginning of the fight, and call them out as the winner at the end, it’s all part of it. It’s what made Marvin Hagler “Marvelous,” Ray Leonard, Ray Robinson and Shane
Liam Smith and Anthony Fowler have a big fight coming up on Saturday, Oct. 9, live from Liverpool on DAZN, but one side of the equation maybe doesn’t really see it as a truly “big fight” for his career. Smith, a former world titlist, didn’t shake hands when the two announced their fight at a
Ángel Barrientes (4-0 3 KOs) kicked off the telecast by earning a unanimous decision over Fernando Ibarra (2-4) after six rounds of super bantamweight action. Ángel used his jab to control the action from the outset, effectively keeping the hard charging Ibarra from doing any sustained damage throughout the fight, despite Ibarra landing flush right