12:54 PM ET WBA strawweight champion Seniesa Estrada will make her first appearance of 2023 when she fights in a unification bout against WBC champion Tina Rupprecht, sources told ESPN on Sunday. The fight is expected to take place in the United States with a targeted date of March 25 as a cofeature fight, sources
Month: January 2023
YouTube and Facebook, TBA, Gervonta Davis vs Hector Luis Garcia press conference. We’ll have a recap up after, but no live coverage. YouTube and Facebook, TBA, Gervonta Davis vs Hector Luis Garcia weigh-in. We’ll have live coverage for you and a live stream to watch and all that. SHO PPV, 9:00 pm ET, Gervonta Davis
The action packed Faust vs Kiladze fight saw five knockdowns in less than two rounds as Viktor Faust (9-0, 7 KOs) remained unbeaten via second-round TKO over a game Iago Kiladze (30-6, 11 KOs). “I felt very confident in the fight,” said Faust. “This was a great win for my career. We have a lot
Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. might be considered pound-for-pound stalwarts, but to Vergil Ortiz Jr., they’ve become obtrusive. With the two sides failing to lock in a deal that would crown the winner as an undisputed champion, Ortiz (19-0, 19 KOs) has grown restless. In an effort to placate the welterweight contender’s championship wishes,
We all know the saying. Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one and they usually stink. But I am feeling particularly fragrant today. If you haven’t already dialled into Scott and John’s excellent podcast awards, then hunker down with your turkey sandwiches, crack open another bottle of red, and get involved in the comments across
1 Leigh Wood W KO 12 Michael Conlan Bookended by two of the most dramatic moments of the year, the March fight between featherweights Wood and Conlan was the kind of fight you show newcomers to the sport in the hope they will stick around. It all began with Conlan registering a huge knockdown in
1 Dmitry Bivol Not content with beating just one Mexican star in 2022, Russia’s Dmitry Bivol managed to follow up a breakout performance against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in May with an equally convincing thrashing of Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez in November. Indeed, despite what some of the scorecards may have said, Bivol lost very few of
“You don’t know me well enough to hate me.” Caleb Plant entered the ring with a T-shirt sporting that simple message, directed at Anthony Dirrell who spent much of the pre-fight buildup talking down to his fellow former super middleweight titlist. Dirrell’s shirt of choice sported an image of a buried Plant accompanied with the
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has indicated that his organization is planning on spearheading a new initiative which will feature a new category for transgender fighters, all in an effort to support inclusion and to ensure no professional bout will ever feature a man fighting a woman. Behind this new category will be something referred to