Letters Gilberto Ramirez (Golden Boy) Although a nation typically associated with boxing success in the lower weight classes, there have been some larger Mexican boxers over the years 1 Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez Though starting out as a welterweight, Álvarez has soared through the weight classes, competing and thriving as a junior-middleweight, middleweight, super-middleweight and light-heavyweight.
Month: November 2022
Another month is here, and it’s time to update our big team pound-for-pound list! Does Naoya Inoue stay in the top spot? Is anyone out, anyone in (yes, as you guessed from the headline)? Let’s find out! Exclamation points make people think things are exciting! The voters: Scott Christ, Wil Esco, John Hansen, Patrick Stumberg,
The team behind heavyweight contender Otto Wallin would like to secure him a fight with former WBO world champion Joseph Parker. A few months ago, Parker suffered the first knockout loss of his career when Joe Joyce stopped him inside the distance of their WBO interim-title clash. Wallin is pushing to make himself the frontrunner
Posted on 11/02/2022 By: Sean Crose “I’m ready to take that belt back to Mexico” Gilbert “Zurdo” Ramirez said to ES News on the eve of his WBA heavyweight title fight with Dmitry Bivol, “to take revenge for Mexico.” Defending champion Bivol, of course, stunned a lot of people last spring when he soundly defeated
9:00 PM ET Andres Waters Javon “Wanna” Walton’s rise to stardom continues. The 16-year-old boxer-turned-actor made history this week when he announced via Instagram that he signed a deal with Jordan Brand, making him the youngest member of “Team Jordan.” According to SneakerNews, Nike is currently working with Walton to debut a boxing boot, in
Unbeaten WBA World Super Middleweight Champion David Morrell Jr. and undefeated rising prospect Travon Marshall are this week’s guests on The PBC Podcast. Morrell discusses his upcoming bout versus undefeated mandatory challenger Aidos Yerbossynuly Saturday night on SHOWTIME, the state of the 168-pound division and why he believes a fight with David Benavidez is inevitable.
John Ryder is looking to cause an upset on November 26th when he takes on Zach Parker for the WBO Interim World Super Middleweight title. Check out how Ryder is getting on ahead of his ‘toughest fight to date.’ Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️
Undefeated junior middleweight star Tim Tszyu is mulling the possibility of facing both Charlo brothers. Tszyu is on track to face Jermell Charlo, who is the reigning undisputed world champion at junior middleweight with the IBF, WBC, WBA and WBO titles around his waist. Their mandatory fight is scheduled to land on January 28 in
Posted on 11/02/2022 By: Sean Crose WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk has made it clear he wants to fight Tyson Fury in order to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Fury, after all, is the WBC and lineal heavyweight champion of the world. Usyk is well aware that, in order
8:34 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The planned super middleweight bout between former champions David Benavidez and Jose Uzcategui, a PBC on Showtime main event set to take place in January, has been scrapped, multiple sources tell ESPN. The reason, sources said, is public backlash surrounding Uzcategui’s positive test for the performance-enhancing drug recombinant human EPO
“There were times when I thought I could be staring at the end, but now, I’m back, and I couldn’t be happier,” Kiko Martinez tells Bad Left Hook from his home in Alicante, Spain. The Spaniard (44-11-2, 31 KO) upset the odds of +250 (5/2) to stop prospect Jordan Gill inside four emphatic rounds on
Boxing fans in the Mauricie region will be treated to a true clash of punchers in the finale of the December 16 gala at Shawinigan’s Centre Gervais Auto, when Arslanbek Makhmudov (15-0, 14 KOs) will defend his NABF and NABA belts against imposing Nigerian boxer Raphael Akpejiori (14-0, 13 KOs). The event, which will also
Posted on 11/01/2022 By: Sean Crose “It will happen,” former heavyweight titlist Anthony Joshua recently told DAZN of a fight between himself and WBC and lineal heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury. “Come on now. Same generation.” Talking to Ade Oladipo, the towering Englishman was candid while coming across as keenly self aware. Although the interview suggested
8:05 AM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Chantelle Cameron once thought she would pursue a career as a teacher, but instead she became a professional boxer. On Saturday, she’ll get the
Terence Crawford announced yesterday that he would be hold an Instagram Live stream to tell everyone ‘the truth’ on what happened as lengthy negotiations to stage an undisputed welterweight title unification with Errol Spence ultimately went nowhere. True to his word, Crawford popped up just after 10 pm ET to share with his fans why
Former two-time world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is willing to face the toughest tests possible in the coming year. Joshua suffered his second consecutive loss to WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk in August. There were initially plans for Joshua to make his return in the month of December, but his comeback was pushed
Posted on 11/01/2022 By: Sean Crose “I’m about to give it to y’all raw and uncut,” Terence Crawford said on an Instagram live feed Tuesday night to explain his side of the recent negotiation drama between himself and team Errol Spence. According to Crawford, he reached out to Spence last May, which effectively got negotiations