Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder took to social media over the weekend to share his thoughts on his return with his own words. Wilder makes a point to let his fans know that he plans on returning to the ring soon, and directly calls out Anthony Joshua to let it be known that that’s
Month: October 2023
This coming Saturday in Saudi Arabia, WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will step in the ring with MMA veteran Francis Ngannou to kick off this year’s Riyadh season. The contest will be fought under traditional boxing rules, but Fury’s WBC title will not be at stake as Ngannou is not ranked by the sanctioning body.
Teddy Atlas, ESPN Boxing Ringside AnalystOct 25, 2023, 07:50 AM ET Close Teddy Atlas joined ESPN in September 1998 to serve as ringside analyst for ESPN2 Friday Night Fights, the weekly series, which premiered October 3, 1998. He handles a similar role for ESPN Boxing Specials, and frequently contributes analysis to SportsCenter and ESPNEWS. Open
THERE was a time before boxing for Fabio Wardley, when his days involved the train from east Anglia to London Liverpool Street where he worked in recruitment. Once he started punching, first as a white collar fighter and then a small hall pro, he would watch big events and dream of one day competing for
PAT McCORMACK is out of next month’s headline clash against Peter Dobson through injury. The 28-year-old was set to top the bill at the Newcastle Arena on November 11 but he will no longer be able to box after picking up the problem during training camp. It was set to be McCormack’s first outing since
As expected, WBC/WBO champion Naoya Inoue and IBF/WBA champion Marlon Tapales will battle it out for undisputed super bantamweight supremacy on December 26th at Tokyo’s Ariake Arena. ESPN+ hosts the Stateside broadcast. Though the press release doesn’t say anything about the undercard, BoxRec lists a great domestic bantamweight clash between Seiya Tsutsumi and Kazuki Anaguchi,
Frank Warren has seen pretty much everything during his Hall of Fame career but the sheer scale of this weekend’s event in Saudia Arabia has taken even him by surprise. Promotion for ‘The Battle of the Baddest’ has been plastered over billboards around the world and tagged onto the front of YouTube videos for months.
SIX YEARS after Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor provided evidence as to why putting boxers and mixed martial artists in a ring together is a ridiculous idea, albeit a lucrative one, we prepare for more of the same this Saturday (October 28) in Saudi Arabia. This time we will go through the same ordeal but
USA Boxing, with just two bouts yesterday, were represented by their featherweight duo in Jahmal Harvey (Oxon Hill, Md.) and Alyssa Mendoza (Caldwell, Idaho) during the fifth day of boxing at the 2023 Santiago Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Mendoza got the morning started for Team USA as she fought against the Canadian Marie-Bathoul
Posted on 10/24/2023 By: Sean Crose Let’s face it, the chances of Tyson Fury losing to UFC great Francis Ngannou this weekend in Saudi Arabia are slim. Ngannou is a tough and determined competitor. He’s also a mixed martial artist who will be facing one the top boxers in the world in a boxing match.
Tim Bradley puts his analyst cap on for a discussion with Fight Hype about the upcoming junior welterweight title fight between Regis Prograis and Devin Haney. Bradley says he’s spotted the same holes in Prograis’ game that he thinks Haney has, and only really gives Prograis a puncher’s chance to win. “Prograis, although he’s a
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has ridiculed his domestic rival Anthony Joshua for his recent statements which suggested a potential 2024 doubleheader event. Joshua is currently trying to finalize a deal to collide with former champion Deontay Wilder in the first quarter of 2024. According to Joshua, the management group which regulates boxing in Saudi
Posted on 10/24/2023 By: Sean Crose It might seem like something out of an old Monty Python skit, but a bald, towering, loud heavyweight boxing champion of the world – who frankly isn’t ever really looking in peak condition – is squaring off against a boxing novice this weekend in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith will look to build off of one of 2023’s biggest upsets when he defends his title against veteran Mateusz Masternak on December 10th in his native Bournemouth. The bout airs on Sky Sports in the UK and, presumably, Peacock in the States; can’t imagine it being among the “select events”
THE ETERNAL cry is that we need boxing stories to go with the fights. Let me tell you about a weekend, an ordinary weekend in our boxing calendar. It fell between the excesses of the Misfits in Manchester, with their devoted flock, and the wonders of this weekend in Saudi. Hey, Tyson Fury might just
CHRIS BILLAM-SMITH will make the first defence of his WBO cruiserweight title on Sunday, December 10 in Bournemouth. Standing across from him will be veteran Mateusz Masternak, 47-5 (31), who will be stepping onto Billam-Smith’s home turf inside the Bournemouth International Centre having had his last six fights in his native Poland. Billam-Smith, 33, won
BN: Six of your seven fights have been scheduled for 10 rounds so how would you describe your development so far? JH: I think I’ve come a long way since my professional bout. Each fight I continue to learn. I always take something away from each fight I’ve had. I’m only seven fights in so
If you simply listened to oddsmakers and fans, they’ll have you believe that Edwin De Los Santos is a good fighter, very good even. But on the elite level? Not a chance. The 23-year-old has looked sharp at times but against William Foster in 2022, he was handed the lone defeat of his career. Of
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