Posted on 10/13/2023 By: Sean Crpse “I love the fans in Australia,” Brian Mendoza said on Thursday in the leadup to his Saturday fight with Tim Tszyu. “Even though I’m the outsider, they show me lots of love.” When asked if he feels he needs to knock out Tszyu since he’ll be facing the undefeated
Month: October 2023
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – The City of Santa Ana honored its very own NABO welterweight titleholder Alexis “Lex” Rocha (23-1, 15 KOs) with a mural created by local artist Jose Ortiz ahead of his fight against San Diego’s undefeated Giovani “Gallo de Oro” Santillan (31-0, 16 KOs) on Saturday, October 21. (photos by Cris Esqueda)
Oct 12, 2023, 06:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tim Tszyu has declared his world title defence against Brian Mendoza his final fight in Australia and delivered a chilling warning to his American rival. Editor’s Picks Tszyu (23-0, 17KOs) will place his WBO super-welterweight belt on the line at the Gold Coast Exhibition Centre on
A FORTNIGHT after the world’s No.1 154lbs fighter was taught a lesson up at super-middleweight, Tim Tszyu and Brian Mendoza meet to determine the best of the rest. Jermell Charlo is the world champion at the weight but hopped up two divisions to face Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in a money-spinning Las Vegas clash last month.
Subriel Matias finally has his first IBF 140 lb title defense set, it appears, as Mike Coppinger reports at ESPN.com that Matias will face Shohjahon Ergashev on the Benavidez vs Andrade PPV undercard on Nov. 25. It’s a solid addition to the PPV card, as Matias (19-1, 19 KO) is simply not in bad fights.
Frank Sanchez is tired of waiting. The undefeated heavyweight contender has fought twice this year, but beat big underdogs in fights designed to simply keep Sanchez active while he awaits a title shot. Sanchez is ranked third by the WBO, fourth by the WBC, fifth by the IBF and 15th by the WBA. With Tyson
Jake Michaels, ESPN Senior WriterOct 12, 2023, 02:54 AM ET Close Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based sports writer who covers everything from Aussie Rules to Formula One, basketball to boxing. He has been with ESPN for 10 years and works as a Senior Writer, covering sport in Australia and around the world. Open Extended Reactions
During a conversation with Fight Hub TV, trainer Malik Scott touches on a number of subjects including his heavyweight Deontay Wilder, who still hasn’t been scheduled for his next outing. Scott says he only wants to best for Wilder and would love to see him fight on a more regular basis, but the current state
The latest step in the career of Keyshawn Davis comes with the knowledge of the next one already in store. It is why the 2020 Olympic Silver medalist and fast-rising lightweight inked a long-term deal with Top Rank upon turning pro just two years ago. Ten fights into his promising pro career, the 24-year-old southpaw
Mike Coppinger, ESPNOct 13, 2023, 07:51 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Tim Tszyu was in training camp for the sort of fight he’s long dreamed of, the kind of bout his father, Hall of Famer Kostya Tszyu, starred in many times over. Tszyu would travel to the U.S. for his second stateside fight, a matchup
CONGRATULATIONS to the following: Jessica McCaskill, Sandy Ryan, Richardson Hitchins, Jose Zepeda, Joe Joyce, and Zhilei Zhang. Somehow, against all odds, those six professional boxers all managed to get through training camps ahead of fights in September without at any stage either feeling the need to take performance-enhancing drugs or getting caught with them in
DEPENDING on a boxer’s mindset, being linked with a fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez can be seen as either motivation or a distraction, particularly if, before reaching boxing’s premier cash cow, you have to first overcome a different opponent with their own threat and ambitions. This is the problem – admittedly, a nice one to
ARE there any takers out there who will back Errol Spence in his rematch against Terence Crawford? It seems that all who did the first time have fallen off of the wagon. It is easy to understand why because of the lasting image of the drubbing that Spence took in their last match. But there
Tim Tszyu is heavily favored to beat Brian Mendoza on Sunday afternoon in their fight for Tszyu’s WBO junior middleweight title. The surging Australian still considers his hard-hitting American challenger the most imposing opponent he has agreed to fight since Tszyu (23-0, 17 KOs) made his pro debut in December 2016. Tony Harrison is the
Posted on 10/12/2023 By: Sean Crose “He’s a great fighter,” undefeated super middleweight contender David Benavidez said of fellow undefeated super middleweight contender Demetrius Andrade during a Thursday press conference, “and a lot of people have been ducking him for a long time.” Don’t count Benavidez among their number. He’ll be facing technical master Andrade
Mike Coppinger, ESPNOct 12, 2023, 10:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The WBA said Thursday that it found no evidence that the referee erred when he ruled a fifth-round punch a low blow during heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk’s ninth-round KO victory over Daniel Dubois in August in Wroclaw, Poland. The organization denied Dubois’ appeal to
It’s KSI and Tommy Fury on Saturday! And also two real world title fights. Well, as “real” as world title fights get in a sport where there are four world titles per division, or five if you’re an IBO supporter. Officially, this site is not one. So who wins this weekend? Editor’s Note: I didn’t
ROSENBERG, Texas – WBO world champion Janibek “Qazaq Style” Alimkhanuly (14-0, 9 KOs) will square off against unbeaten IBF world champion Vincenzo Gualtieri (21-0-1, 7 KOs) in a title unification showdown this Saturday at Fort Bend Epicenter in Rosenberg, Texas. In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis (9-0, 6 KOs) takes
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