Month: April 2023

12:16 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Robeisy Ramirez will make the first defense of his WBO featherweight title vs. Satoshi Shimizu on July 25 in Tokyo, promoter Top Rank announced on Thursday. The 126-pound title bout will serve as chief support on ESPN+ for the highly anticipated showdown between Stephen Fulton and Naoya Inoue for Fulton’s
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11:53 AM ET Jake Paul and his promotions team are launching a new boxing series called Most Valuable Prospects that will highlight top up-and-coming fighters. The series will begin with a card on May 26 in Orlando, Florida, and it will be headlined by rising star Ashton Sylve, officials told ESPN on Thursday. There will
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Lou DiBella hopes he has found a permanent streaming home for his promotional company’s long-running “Broadway Boxing” series. DAZN will stream “Broadway Boxing” for the first time Thursday night, when it will offer a six-fight card to its subscribers from Sony Hall in New York. The show, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. EDT, will
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11:44 AM ET Nate Diaz turned himself in to the New Orleans Police Department on Thursday morning and was booked into custody on a charge of felony second-degree battery. Diaz, the 38-year-old former UFC star, was issued an arrest warrant Monday stemming from a street brawl last weekend involving multiple people following the Misfits Boxing
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1 KHAOSAI GALAXY The ‘Thai Tyson’ remains sporting royalty in the Kingdom. A huge-punching southpaw, Khaosai was a massive TV attraction in his 1980s prime, which saw him win the WBA super-flyweight title and retain it 19 times. 2 PONGSAKLEK WONJONGKAM Pongsaklek demonstrated incredible longevity in a 24-year (1994-2018) career that included two lineal title
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On a typical Saturday night, Nate Wren might be ringside, shooting the big – and not so big – fights. And May 6 is a big fight, as Canelo Alvarez faces John Ryder in Guadalajara. And while California’s Wren is no stranger to taking the trip south of the border for work – he’s 3-0
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There were high hopes for the promotion of Gervonta Davis vs Ryan Garcia, who were expected to bring their respective fan bases together for a massive pay-per-view event, and it appears that was exactly the case as the fight turned out to be huge success. Adam Stern of the Sports Business Journal reports that show
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