Posted on 12/23/2023 By: Sean Crose Saturday’s highly anticipated, Saudi Arabian hosted supercard got off to a quick start, as the first four fights all ended within the distance, two of those four within the first round. Things kicked off with the 23-0 heavyweight Frank Sanchez taking on the 20-2 Junior Fa in a scheduled
Month: December 2023
Mike Coppinger, ESPNDec 23, 2023, 04:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dmitry Bivol retained his WBA light heavyweight title with a shutout decision victory over Lyndon Arthur on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Bivol floored Arthur with a body-shot barrage in the closing moments of the penultimate round and was named the 120-107 winner on
Naoya Inoue returns to action Tuesday in Japan, facing Marlon Tapales with all four major world titles at 122 lbs at stake. The fight, which will stream live on ESPN+ in the States, will see Inoue try to go undisputed in a second weight division, having previously achieved that honor a year ago as a
Just winning was never going to be enough for Daniel Dubois. The mission from the moment he signed on to participate on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ mega card was to prove to the world that there was still plenty of life left in his promising career. London’s Dubois found the perfect antagonist in Brooklyn’s Jarrell
Posted on 12/23/2023 By: Sean Crose WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol put his belt and his undefeated 21-0 record on the line Saturday in Saudi Arabia when he battled the widely unknown 23-1 Lyndon Arthur in a fight scheduled for 12. Both men looked sharp in the first, though Bivol dominated the tempo. By the
Nick ParkinsonDec 23, 2023, 07:07 PM ET Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Open Extended Reactions Anthony Joshua’s slow reboot of his career is complete after a sharp display forced Otto Wallin’s corner to stop
By Elliot Worsell SPEND time in a boxer’s changing room on fight night and you will come away not only certain there are few environments as tense or nerve-wracking but equally certain the success of a boxer has as much to do with controlling their mind ahead of a fight as controlling their body once
By Thomas Hauser SIXTEEN years ago, an Iowa attorney named Adam Pollack founded Win By KO Publications. Pollack has worked as a trainer, referee, and ring judge. But his greatest contribution to boxing lies in a series of biographies he has written about boxing’s early gloved heavyweight champions. “Publishers wanted to edit my books down
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – The man regarded as the best cruiserweight in the world, Jai Opetaia (24-0, 19 KOs) demolished previously undefeated Ellis Zorro (17-1, 7 KOs) in one round. (photos by Mark Robinson) Opetaia was removed of the IBF title for taking this fight, as a mandatory order was outstanding to face Marias Breidis
Posted on 12/23/2023 By: Sean Crose Former world titlist Deontay WIlder returned to the ring on Saturday to take on Joseph Parker, a fellow former world titlist, in a scheduled 12 round affair. The winner of the Saudi hosted throwdown would have a bright future ahead. The loser? Perhaps the sunset of a career. Wilder,
Mike Coppinger, ESPNDec 23, 2023, 06:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Joseph Parker dominated Deontay Wilder on Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, en route to the major upset victory in a battle of former heavyweight champions. New Zealand’s Parker prevailed via scores of 118-111, 118-110 and 120-108. Wilder entered the bout a -700 favorite, per
Joseph Parker didn’t just beat Deontay Wilder today in Saudi Arabia, he did so with relative ease. Parker scored a big upset on scores of 118-111, 118-110, and 120-108 in Riyadh, effectively killing plans for a March fight between Wilder and Anthony Joshua. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored the fight 120-108 for Parker. Parker (34-3,
By Elliot Worsell IF, as a promoter, you’re in the business of setting up a super-fight by first having the two boxers involved in semi-finals, the last thing you want is for the first of those semi-finals to not go as planned. It’s true, yes, that an upset in either semi-final will inevitably make you
ANTHONY JOSHUA is adamant a fight with Deontay Wilder would still do ‘amazing numbers’ despite the American’s wide defeat to Joseph Parker in Riyadh. Joshua and Wilder had agreed to fight in 2024 but both had to win their fights on Saturday’s stacked Day of Reckoning card in order to set up boxing’s most long-anticipated
Heavyweight Daniel Dubois landed 48% of his power punches, 58% in the tenth and final round where he forced the stoppage of Jarrell Miller. 33% of Dubois’s landed power punches were body punches. Dubois also landed 62 jabs. Miller landed 25 punches over the last four rounds of the fight. Dubois landed 34 punches in
Posted on 12/23/2023 By: Sean Crose Former heavyweight multi-titlist Anthony Joshua, 26-3, stepped into the ring in Saudi Arabia Saturday to battle the man who once gave Tyson Fury a true run for Fury’s money, the 26-1 Otto Wallin. Their heavyweight contest, scheduled for twelve, brought with it a lot of questions, most of them
Mike Coppinger Nick Parkinson Close Nick Parkinson •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Dec 23, 2023, 07:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Entering the ‘Day of Reckoning’ boxing event on Saturday, the expectation was that both
Anthony Joshua made it look very easy against Otto Wallin, forcing a stoppage after five rounds of one-sided action. Joshua was following Deontay Wilder’s upset loss to Joseph Parker, which means there will be no Joshua vs Wilder fight in March was had been planned, but many more options are now open. Wallin’s corner appeared
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