Editor’s letter • Issue • Premium James Chance/Getty Images It’s slim, but hope remains for Fury and Usyk to collide in a true defining contest. Matt Christie on the latest developments in the heavyweight division THE Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk-Anthony Joshua-Dillian Whyte saga continues. This week we’ve been teased with all manner of scenarios, as the
Month: January 2022
Now that decision-makers for DAZN and Matchroom Boxing realize Juan Francisco Estrada won’t be able to fight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez a third time March 5, they’re trying to find a suitable replacement to keep the streaming service’s main event intact for that night. BoxingScene.com has learned that discussions are ongoing internally to make a bout
Posted on 01/25/2022 By: Sean Crose Say this much for Ryan Garcia – he knows how to draw attention. Now that he’s planning to return to the thing after an extended hiatus, he’s saying what he needs to in order to raise eyebrows. “I do like that fight,” he says to ESNEWS when asked about
Bunce Diaries • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom The contrasting journeys of Leigh Wood and Michael Conlan set to come together in Nottingham, writes Steve Bunce LEIGH WOOD is not the first fighter to suddenly start to look and sound like a world champion. The transition is certainly smoother when you get the title you
Boxing’s featherweight division has been a weird one to make a top 10 out of for a while now, with inactivity, upsets, and a field of talented fighters who have had their ups and downs in various ways. We’ve spoken about it a lot over the last year or so in our rankings updates, and
Joshua Franco is willing to advance from challenger in waiting to late replacement to save the show. A current void exists in DAZN’s 1st quarter schedule, with its March 5 main event in disarray. BoxingScene,com has confirmed that lineal/WBA “Super” 115-pound champion Juan Francisco Estrada has tested positive for Covid and is symptomatic, which has
Posted on 01/24/2022 By: Hans Themistode Chris Eubank Jr. has done his best to be patient. The highly ranked middleweight contender is anxious to settle his long-standing issues with Liam Williams in the ring but has been forced to endure numerous postponements due to the ongoing global pandemic. Officially, the two will square off on
Following recent reports that indicated Anthony Joshua has accepted a step aside deal to pave way for an undisputed title fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, well, Joshua claims it’s all bullshit. Coming out to speak directly to the public, Joshua makes it clear that that he hasn’t accepted any sort of deal and
In the main event of this past weekend’s Detroit Brawl, at the Lincoln Ballroom of the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan, WBC #9- and WBO #15-ranked Hugo “The Boss” Centeno Jr. (28-4-1, 15 KOs) dropped a shock majority decision to skillful but unheralded Georgian Antonio Todd (13-5, 7 KOs) in a
Posted on 01/24/2022 By: Sean Crose It looked as if the two fighters would never meet. After all, lightweight contender Rolando Romero had been accused of sexual mistreatment by more than one woman, which had put the kabash on his scheduled December battle against WBA lightweight titlist Gervonta “Tank” Davis. Since that time late last
Issue • Premium • Reports Amanda Westcott/Showtime Injured Gary Russell Jr’s career reaches crisis point as he’s outworked by Mark Magsayo in a minor upset, writes Nigel Collins LONGTIME WBC featherweight title-holder Gary Russell Jnr had a shoulder injury and was coming off almost two years of inactively when he entered the ring to face
Tugstsogt Nyambayar and Sakaria Lukas fought to a split decision draw in their 10-round featherweight bout, live on SHOWTIME from the Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. #NyambayarLukas Fight Night Recap: https://pbcham.ps/FightNight-012222 #Highlights #PBConSHOWTIME Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS: https://pbcham.ps/FightAlerts FOLLOW US: Tweets by premierboxing https://instagram.com/premierboxing https://www.facebook.com/premierboxingchampions
One of last year’s bigger shockers will get a sequel in less than two months. Asian Boxing reports that newly crowned WBC light flyweight Masamichi Yabuki and the man he deposed, Kenshiro Teraji, will run it back on March 19th at Kyoto’s City Gym. Last September, that same location hosted their first meeting, which saw
Feature Is there a secret to taking a punch? In order to find out, Elliot Worsell speaks to three former world titlists, each known for having a great chin ONE moment he was doing all he could to avoid the punches of his opponent and the next he was sitting in a hotel room watching
We want our referees and officials to be accountable. We also want them to have the chance to explain their actions. But in a sport that doesn’t make wholesale use of VAR (video-assisted replays) what we don’t need is a public hanging like the one received by Eddie Claudio yesterday in New Jersey. Claudio was
Posted on 01/22/2022 By: Sean Crose WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr was set to return to the ring for the first time in almost a year Saturday night. His opponent? The undefeated Mark Magsayo, who had fought his way to a shot at Russell Jr’s title. First, however, there were two undercard bouts broadcast
Issue • Opinion • Premium ‘Total chaos.’ Tyson Fury, Dillian Whyte, Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk are still going round in circles, writes George Gigney in his media review DESPITE weeks of apparent negotiations and backroom talks, the heavyweight picture looks no clearer than it did at the end of 2021. What we do know
Rumors are circulating across multiple British newspapers that Anthony Joshua is about to accept an eight-figure sum to surrender his mandatory rematch with Oleksandr Usyk and make way for a full four belt undisputed heavyweight unification between Usyk and Tyson Fury. Most notably, Gareth A. Davies reports in The Telegraph that Joshua is on the
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