Month: February 2024

Undefeated super middleweights Edgar Berlanga and Padraig McCrory will meet in a 12-round main event tonight from Orlando, headlining a Matchroom Boxing card on DAZN. Berlanga, 26, and McCrory, 35, are both in “must-win” mode as far as being a serious contender at 168 lbs. The card also features the return of lightweight phenom Andy
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNFeb 24, 2024, 07:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Junto Nakatani scored a sixth-round TKO victory over Alexandro Santiago on Saturday in Tokyo to become the WBC bantamweight champion, his third division title. Japan’s Nakatani (27-0, 20 KOs) floored Santiago with a straight left in Round 6. Moments later, a crisp right hook
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THE RESULT: WBA bantamweight champion Takuma Inoue finished a competitive and entertaining fight in Tokyo by sinking a right uppercut into Jerwin Ancajas’ body halfway through round nine. Unable to rise, Ancajas, from the Philippines, was then stopped at the one minute and 44 seconds mark of the round, resulting in a successful first defence
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THE RESULT: After showing impressive patience and poise for the first five rounds of his debut at bantamweight, Junto Nakatani exploded in round six, dropping Alexandro Santiago not once but twice en route to winning the WBC belt in Tokyo, Japan. The fight was eventually called off by referee Laurence Cole one minute and 12
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Three world title fights will come to us live today from Japan, with two in the bantamweight division and one at super flyweight, with the action streaming live on ESPN+ starting at 4 am ET. Alexandro Santiago and Takuma Inoue will defend their WBC and WBA bantamweight titles, respectively, against Junto Nakatani and Jerwin Ancajas,
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MATCHROOM BOXING, in conjunction with Boxlab Promotions, hosts an enticing night of boxing in Orlando’s Caribe Royale on Saturday (February 24). DAZN televise. Top of the bill is the super-middleweight clash between Edgar Berlanga, and Belfast’s Padraig McCrory, 18-0 (9), and it’s a huge chance for the latter to gatecrash the title discussion at 168.Berlanga,
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Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 22, 2024, 01:22 PM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions Francis Ngannou is two weeks away from his second appearance in a professional boxing ring, but he’s already considering his eventual return to mixed martial arts. Ngannou
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Marc Raimondi, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 22, 2024, 02:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A rematch between Jake Paul and Tommy Fury in boxing could lead to a clash between the two inside a cage. Nakisa Bidarian, Paul’s business partner and the co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, told ESPN that an offer is on the table
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