Issue • Premium • Preview Craig Derbyshire has lost 28 times and this weekend challenges Tommy Frank for the British title, writes Matt Bozeat TOMMY FRANK makes his first defence of the British flyweight championship on Sunday (April 3). Fightzone televise from the Magna Centre in Rotherham where the 28-year-old from Sheffield puts the 112lbs
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As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Australia’s “Ferocious” George Kambosos Jr., the WBO/WBA/IBF/WBC Franchise lightweight world champion, will battle WBC world champion Devin Haney for the undisputed championship Saturday, June 4, at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Kambosos-Haney will be broadcast in prime time, live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+. Kambosos, who was born and raised
Posted on 04/01/2022 By: Sean Crose FightHype has what can best be described as an interesting interview with WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight titlist George Kambosos. Sitting in a barber’s chair while getting a trim, Kambosos has lots to say about – what else? – his June 5th homecoming battle with fellow lightweight titlist Devin
WBO super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka’s next title defense will feature some unfinished business, as the sanctioning body has ordered him to rematch former foe Donnie Nietes. The pair have 30 days to come to terms and avoid a $100,000-minimum purse bid. Nietes (43-1-6, 26 KO) narrowly edged out Ioka (28-2, 15 KO) in a
Late replacement Hector Garcia battered and dropped the highly-touted Chris Colbert on his way to earning a unanimous decision in a 12-round WBA Super Featherweight World Title Eliminator. #ColbertGarcia #ChrisColbert #HectorGarcia 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
Live press conference as Zach Parker and Demetrius Andrade speak ahead of their WBO Interim Super Middleweight title fight on May 21st at Derby County’s Pride Park Stadium. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join our BT Sport Boxing Facebook Group ➡️ https://www.facebook.com/groups/BTSportBoxing/ Follow
Savannah “The Silent Assassin” Marshall’s defence of her WBO World Female Middleweight title against former WBO World Champion Femke Hermans takes place on Saturday 2nd April and will headline an event airing live and exclusively in the UK on Sky Sports. (photos by Lawrence Lustig) The show, previously scheduled for March, will be a co-promotion
Posted on 03/31/2022 By: Hans Themistode In the opinion of Abel Sanchez, Gennadiy Golovkin’s decision to part ways wasn’t a sagacious choice. For years on end, the two partnered together to go on one of the more destructive runs in the history of the middleweight division. At one point, Golovkin went on a particularly violent
The weekend brings four major main events and some entertaining undercard bouts from California to Texas to Japan. Middleweight champion Gennadiy Golovkin faces fellow champion Ryota Murata in a highly anticipated fight in Saitama, Japan. A GGG victory will put him in position to face Canelo Alvarez in a trilogy fight, this time at super
Feature Mike Cooper/ALLSPORT Here in his own words Wayne McCullough reflects on his career, the highs, the lows and reveals the incredible bond he shared with the legendary Eddie Futch BACK in February 1993, I flew from Belfast to Los Angeles, fought on the 23rd, and then on the 24th I came to Las Vegas.
Boxers Sam Mellish/GB Boxing Olympic bronze medallist Frazer Clarke answers our questions When and why you started boxing:I was 11 or 12. I started because I wanted to lose a bit of weight and I couldn’t fight. I wanted to look after myself because I was going up to high school and I was a
Gervonta “Tank” Davis rejected a plea that would have required jail time for an alleged hit-and-run incident from November 2020. The case will proceed to trial on September 21st. Davis was in Baltimore City Circuit Court today for the first time since last October to face 14 misdemeanor charges related to the incident. Prosecutors claim
Lou DiBella applauded his lightweight champion, George Kambosos Jr., first and foremost. Kambosos’ ambition is the primary reason DiBella initially made a deal with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. for the undefeated, unified 135-pound champion to battle Vasiliy Lomachenko on June 5 at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Then it was Kambosos’ insistence on replacing
Posted on 03/31/2022 By: Hans Themistode From the moment Devin Haney burst onto the scene in 2014, the ambitious former amateur standout clamored to be a part of the biggest fights possible. Although it may have taken Haney a bit longer than he wanted, the 23-year-old has finally gotten his wish granted. On June 5th,
Mar 27, 2022 Mike CoppingerESPN George Kambosos and Devin Haney have struck a deal for a June 5 fight for the undisputed lightweight championship at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia, Top Rank announced on Thursday. The bout will take place Sunday afternoon in Australia to accommodate a June 4 prime-time broadcast in the United States
Preview Savannah Marshall headlines as she waits for that elusive showdown with Claressa Shields, writes John Dennen WE want to see Savannah Marshall fighting Claressa Shields. Marshall is the only boxer to have beaten the American star, in a now long distant 2012 amateur bout. They have a budding rivalry, the qualities they possess should
The fight between George Kambosos Jr and Devin Haney for the fully, truly undisputed lightweight championship of the world is 100 percent official, with ESPN set to air the card on Saturday, June 4 in the United States. The fight will actually take place early on June 5 in Australia, which will accommodate a prime