Month: March 2024

Mar 31, 2024, 06:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Fabio Wardley finished the fight stumbling with exhaustion and with a mask of blood from a busted nose, but he held on to his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles after a split points draw with Frazer Clarke on Sunday. Judges saw the brutal and bloody battle
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Fabio Wardley and Frazer Clarke square off in a heavyweight clash from London, with Wardley defending his British and Commonwealth titles at the O2 Arena. Peacock will stream the show starting from 1 pm ET for those in the U.S., and Sky Sports has the fights in the United Kingdom. We’ve got the comments open
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Posted on 03/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Both men had given hard hitting star Gervonta Davis a fight. And, although both fighters came up short against the man named “Tank,” there was no doubt that Isaac Cruz, 25-2-1, and Rolando Romero, 15-1, had subsequently moved on from defeat successfully. For, on Saturday night at the T-Mobile
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Paul Gutierrez, ESPN Staff WriterMar 30, 2024, 11:08 PM ET Close Paul Gutierrez joined NFL Nation in 2013 and serves as its Las Vegas Raiders reporter. He has a multi-platform role – writing on ESPN.com, television appearances on NFL Live and SportsCenter, and podcast and radio appearances. Before coming to ESPN, Gutierrez spent three years at CSN Bay Area
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Zurdo Ramirez successfully answered a lot of questions about how he’d stand up against a “true” cruiserweight tonight in Inglewood, California, outboxing Arsen Goulamirian, taking his power shots with little trouble, and ultimately taking Goulamirian’s WBA belt, too. It wasn’t an easy start for Zurdo (46-1, 30 KO), with Goulamirian (27-1, 18 KO) making him
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Yudai Shigeoka (8-0, 5 KOs) will make the first defense of WBC minimumweight world title today when he welcomes former world champion Melvin Jerusalem to Nagoya, Japan.  Shigeoka ripped the WBC belt from Thailand’s long reigning champion Panya Pradabsri by the widest of unanimous decisions in just his seventh professional fight.  The 26-year-old, from Kumamoto,
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IT has been quite the fortnight for Australia’s Tim Tszyu. After receiving news that his original opponent, Keith Thurman, had suffered and injury in training and would therefore no longer be able to fight him in Las Vegas on March 30, Tszyu then had to contend with the idea of fighting a replacement, Sebastian Fundora,
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Posted on 03/30/2024 By: Sean Crose Oscar Valdez is now the WBO interim super featherweight champion of the world. For, last night in Glendale, Arizona, the 33 year old simply got the better of the 28 year old Liam Wilson in a competitive fight. Wilson, 13-2, looked sharp in the first, but the 31-2, Valdez
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LAS VEGAS – Errol Spence Jr.’s interest in fighting the winner of Saturday night’s Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora WBO-WBC junior-middleweight title bout adds a curious wrinkle to where this was supposed to be headed. Recently undisputed welterweight champion Terence Crawford, who vanquished then-three-belt-champion Spence by a cold-blooded knockout in July, previously petitioned the WBO to fight
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNMar 29, 2024, 12:46 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Teofimo Lopez and Steve Claggett are finalizing a deal for a June 29 fight in Miami for Lopez’s WBO junior welterweight title, sources told ESPN. The 140-pound title fight will headline Top Rank Boxing on ESPN. Lopez (20-1, 13 KOs) made the first defense
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