Prepare your fainting couches and smelling salts, boxing fans, because 2022 is starting off hot, hot, hot. If a worth-every-penny (?) Luis Ortiz-Charles Martin New Year’s Day PPV somehow weren’t thrilling enough to risk heart palpitations, maybe the pending January 4th announcement of Logan Paul vs KSI 3 will push you over the edge. Logan
Month: December 2021
The fight at the top of Carl Froch’s 2022 wish list is a showdown between unbeaten lightweights Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis and Ryan Garcia. Davis and Garcia are regarded by many observers as the two biggest names at 135-pounds. Garcia has been inactive since January, when he picked up the biggest win of his career with
Order #OrtizMartin on FOX Sports PPV for $39.99: https://pbcham.ps/OrtizMartinPPV-5 Watch live as Luis Ortiz, Charles Martin, and the rest of the fighters on our New Year’s Day Heavyweight Extravaganza host their final press conference ahead of their respective bouts on Saturday, January 1, 2022, live on FOX Sports PPV. #PressConference Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info.
Posted on 12/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Danny Garcia is still mulling over his next career move. After a widely successful run at 140 pounds which resulted in a unified championship reign, Garcia has spent the past seven years of his career as a full-fledged welterweight. Although Garcia would go on to win a world title
2022 is just a day away, and boxing is just about to start getting back into the swing of things following pretty much a dead week in the holiday season. As such, the staff predictions also return. Last “season,” as it were, Patrick L. Stumberg walked away with the championship, for which he has received
Former unified welterweight champion Keith Thurman is finally ready to snap a 29-month layoff from the sport. Thurman has been out of the ring since suffering the first defeat of his career, when he lost a twelve round split decision to Manny Pacquiao in July of 2019. Thurman will return on February 5, when he
Posted on 12/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode If you laid eyes on David Diamante, there appears to be a permanent smile plastered to his face. Why wouldn’t there be? Diamante is being paid handsomely for something he loves quite possibly more than anything in the world, calling fights. Prior to almost every Matchroom Boxing broadcast, Diamante
News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Eddie Hearn is the Boxing News promoter of the year. Plus more in our 2021 review BOXING NEWS PROMOTER OF THE YEAR 2021- EDDIE HEARNTHE promoter a section of hardcore fans love to hate was unquestionably the hardest working promoter in 2021. Across 10 different countries, Hearn promoted or co-promoted 44
News Ryan Hafey/PBC Tyson Fury versus Deontay Wilder wins the Boxing News 2021 event of the year award THE BOXING NEWS EVENT OF THE YEAR 2021 1. TYSON FURY-DEONTAY WILDER IIIThere were ‘bigger’ events, in terms of attendance levels, but the third contest between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder trumped the lot for worldwide interest.
News Al Bello/Getty Images Tyson Fury’s final punch to finish his epic rivalry with Deontay Wilder wins the 2021 knockout of the year award KNOCKOUT OF THE YEAR 2021 1. TYSON FURY w ko 11 DEONTAY WILDERAfter 29 rounds, it had to end this way. It had to be clean, there could be no judging
News Melina Pizano/Matchroom George Kambosos’ victory over Teofimo Lopez is the upset of 2021 UPSET OF THE YEAR 2021 1. GEORGE KAMBOSOS JNR w pts 12 TEÓFIMO LÓPEZIF anyone bar George Kambosos Jnr or his team tell you they knew the Aussie was going to beat Teófimo López be very, very suspicious of that person’s
Amateur • Issue • Premium Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Galal Yafai and Lauren Price are the male and female amateur boxers of 2021. John Dennen reviews the Olympic year BRITISH boxing has never had a year like 2021. It surely won’t again for another century. Amid a global pandemic, that for the first time in their
Less than two months after claiming super featherweight gold in her biggest win to date, Alycia Baumgardner has signed a “multi-fight promotional deal” with Matchroom Boxing. Baumgardner (11-1, 7 KO), whose sole prior defeat came by 2018 split decision to future super lightweight champion Christina Linardatou, came out of virtually nowhere to demolish Terri Harper
Top heavyweight Luis “King Kong” Ortiz and former world champion Charles Martin went face-to-face at the final press conference Thursday before they meet in an IBF Heavyweight Title Eliminator headlining a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View this Saturday, January 1 from Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. (photos by
Posted on 12/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Ryan Garcia was on the verge of making 2021 his breakout year. On the second day of the new year, the 23-year-old proved he was more than just some flashy fighter by picking himself up off the deck against Luke Campbell to score a seventh-round stoppage victory. From there,
Kazuto Ioka secured a Plan B after his planned NYE unification with Jerwin Ancajas fell through, and now “Pretty Boy” has done the same. Rappler reports that Ancajas will defend his IBF super flyweight title against 13th-ranked contender and 2016 Olympian Fernando Daniel Martinez this coming February. BoxRec has the bout listed on the 5th,
Isaac Cruz catapulted himself into top contender status in the lightweight division after giving Gervonta Davis all he could handle in their closely contested Showtime pay-per-view fight. Davis won a unanimous decision with scores of 115-113 twice and 116-112 and outlanded Cruz by just a narrow margin of 133 and 121. Although the 23-year-old Mexican
“Prince” Charles Martin is on the rise again in the stacked heavyweight division. He faces Luis “King Kong” Ortiz on January 1, 2021, to open the New Year. The former world title-holder is looking as good as ever in the ring and determined to regain the world heavyweight championship in the new year. #CharlesMartin #OrtizMartin
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