FOR Joe Calzaghe, a sigh is worth a thousand words. Even now, in retirement, memories of a certain night will trigger a wide-eyed look followed by a nervous chuckle and, finally, a sigh. He will feel tired all of a sudden, drained and overworked, just as he did during 36 minutes of what he describes
Month: October 2023
BN: I recently watched an amateur fight between yourself and Lee Hogan. What are your memories of those early days in the sport? MD: He took my undefeated record! I was 7-0 until that night. I finished with an amateur record of 22-7, I think. I come from a boxing family, but I was never
PODCASTS THERE has been a lot of talk about Billy Joe Saunders returning from his 15-month ring hiatus before the year is out ahead of a push for more major fights in 2024. And the comeback cranked up a notch this week as he was the guest on Simon Jordan’s popular Up Front podcast. The
Leigh Wood pulled more big drama this past Saturday, rallying from well down on the cards to stop Josh Warrington at the end of the seventh round, retaining his WBA featherweight title in Sheffield, England. After the fight, Wood (28-3, 17 KO) said this would be his last bout at 126 lbs, and that he
Once seen as a lesser version of his father, Tim Tszyu has ignored the critics, continued to evolve his game, and after a year in which he’s dispatched Tony Harrison and Carlos Ocampo, the Australia native has gone from a seemingly sacrificial lamb to junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo to the odds-on favorite to beat
Posted on 10/10/2023 By: Sean Crose Cletus Seldin returned to the ring on Tuesday night after a nearly two year absence. The 26-1 Seldin’s opponent in the scheduled 8 round junior welterweight affair was the 21-5-2 Patrick Okine. Seldin-Okine was the main event of a Boxing Insider Fight Nights card held at Manhattan’s Sony Theater.
Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterOct 10, 2023, 02:15 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun The heavyweight boxing match between WBC champion Tyson Fury and former UFC champion Francis Ngannou will air on ESPN pay-per-view in the United States, Top Rank officials told ESPN on
If Jermell Charlo wants to fight Tim Tszyu upon his return to 154 lbs, he’ll have to shed a belt to do so, as Dan Rafael reports that the IBF has ordered Charlo to face longtime mandatory challenger Bakhram Murtazaliev. The two have until November 9th to avoid a purse bid. Murtazaliev (21-0, 15 KO)
No Limit CEO George Rose, who promotes WBO junior middleweight champion Tim Tszyu, has taken a few verbal jabs at WBC, WBA, IBF champion Jermell Charlo. Tszyu was the longtime mandatory challenger to Charlo’s WBO title. Charlo lost the WBO belt when he moved up by two weight classes to challenge undisputed super middleweight champion
Posted on 10/10/2023 By: Sean Crose This is a good one. David Benavidez, the power punching super middleweight terror, will be facing the slick and highly skilled Rhode Islander, Demetrius Andrade in Las Vegas on November 25th. Andrade has long been searching for this kind of high level fight while Benavidez deserves credit for taking
Michael Rothstein, ESPN Staff WriterOct 10, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close Michael Rothstein is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Rothstein covers the Atlanta Falcons. You can follow him via Twitter @MikeRothstein. More than two dozen female fighters joined together in a statement Tuesday calling for the option to fight 12 rounds and three-minute
NEAR Detroit one night in 2000, fans went to the boxing hoping for a dirty fight. It is pointless being polite about the Andrew Golota-Mike Tyson fight – people expected the unexpected, they wanted to see a vicious circus. It seemed written in the boxing stars. Instead, the fans got a dose of shocking madness
Former unified super bantamweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev could be back in title contention by the end of the year, as Matchroom Boxing won today’s purse bid for his WBA final eliminator against Kevin Gonzalez with a $120,000 offer to be split 50/50. Per Matchroom, the fight could join Regis Prograis vs Devin Haney on December
Tuesday is podcast day, and a podcast we give you! First Half: A look ahead at this week’s action! Tim Tszyu faces Brian Mendoza in a 154 lb title fight in Australia, and Janibek Alimkhanuly and Vincenzo Gualtieri unify middleweight belts in Texas! Plus, yes, there is a big Misfits Boxing show on Saturday, and
During a media interview captured by Fight Hype, trainer Malik Scott discusses Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez’s latest performance over Joe Smith Jr before touching on the current status of Deontay Wilder, who still hasn’t been scheduled for his return. Check out some of what Scott had to say about Wilder below. Scott on any updates with
Logan Paul is next slated to return to the ring to take on rival Dillon Danis on October 14 at the AO Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom on DAZN. Danis is an MMA fighter with two wins and no losses on his record, although, he hasn’t fought professionally since June 2019 and will be making
Every era has fighters whose contests, win or lose, demand our attention. They are men whose combination of talent, heart, vulnerability, and sudden power mean that no matter how dire a situation appears, they might just snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. The early 80s junior lightweight rivalry between Bobby Chacon, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Rolando
It wasn’t the big-name opponent he was hoping for but Shakur Stevenson could have a mega fight on his hands sooner rather than later. After proving that he won’t have many issues against bigger men in the lightweight division at the expense of Shuichiro Yoshino, Stevenson was hoping that one of the elites at 135
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