Artur Beterbiev is injured, and his scheduled June 1 fight with Dmitry Bivol will be postponed. Turki Alalshikh confirmed the news this evening. The rest of the June 1 card, featuring the Queensberry vs Matchroom 5v5 series, will go on as planned. It’s not a new story for boxing fans, who have seen the 39-year-old
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Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 3, 2024, 08:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Artur Beterbiev suffered a ruptured meniscus and his undisputed light heavyweight championship fight vs. Dmitry Bivol on June 1 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been postponed, it was announced Friday. Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, told ESPN a replacement
Artur Beterbiev suffered an injury ahead of his highly anticipated undisputed light heavyweight bout with Dmitry Bivol scheduled for June 1 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The news, initially made public by a post on the social media account of boxing broker Turki Alalshikh, was confirmed in a press release by promoter Top Rank shortly thereafter
The undisputed light-heavyweight title bout between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol has been postponed due to an injury to Beterbiev. Originally slated for June 1 in Saudi Arabia, the match-up was set to determine the world’s number one 175lb fighter after years of respective dominance from the undefeated pair. However, boxing fans will now be
After missing out on a rubber match with rival Katie Taylor, former undisputed super lightweight champion Chantelle Cameron has parted ways with Matchroom Boxing and joined forces with Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions. “You can expect fireworks,” Northampton’s Cameron said at today’s media conference to announce her new promotional stable. “I’m coming with vengeance and to
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 3, 2024, 08:54 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez removed his designer sunglasses to reveal the sort of deadly serious expression that’s all too familiar to his 39 knockout opponents. Only this time, the target of his white-hot rage wasn’t another fighter — at least not an active
Robert Garcia is one of the most well-respected trainers in boxing. At any given time he has roughly 30 professional fighters in his gym throughout the day training for marquee televised fights. His perspective on Canelo Alvarez fighting Jaime Munguia on Saturday, May 4th, from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, is of significant
Posted on 05/03/2024 By: Sean Crose “July 13th its gonna get nasty,” IBF welterweight titlist Jaron “Boots” Ennis posted on social media Friday. Indeed, on that day the uber talented Ennis will be entering the ring for the first time in close to a year. The fact Ennis will be facing challenger Cody Crowley in
WHILE many fighters admit that they prefer to climb between the ropes and let their fists do the talking, completing media rounds comes as part of the territory. Shunning the mic and tape recorder isn’t a viable option during fight week as hyperbole and excess are required to sell the spectacle and whip up excitement.
Jaron Ennis’ homecoming is officially on the schedule, as Matchroom confirmed today that “Boots” will defend his IBF welterweight title against mandatory challenger Cody Crowley on July 13th at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. As the Philadelphia Inquirer points out, this marks the first boxing match at Wells Fargo Center since it opened in 1996. Ennis
David Purdum, ESPN Staff WriterMay 2, 2024, 11:57 AM ET Close Joined ESPN in 2014 Journalist covering gambling industry since 2008 Open Extended Reactions Mike Tyson is an underdog against Jake Paul in their July 20 fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The heavyweight fight between Paul, 27, and Tyson, who will turn 58
Boxxer promoter Ben Shalom has admitted the enticing all-London light heavyweight showdown between Joshua Buatsi and Anthony Yarde is beginning to look less likely to happen. For several weeks, negotiations for the fight seemed to be progressing well with the friendly rivals both calling for the contest, but Shalom said that while Buatsi was ready
Posted on 05/02/2024 By: Sean Crose It’s hard to imagine that Jaime Munguia, at just 27 years of age, has already engaged in a total of 43 professional fights. Perhaps even more difficult to imagine is the fact that Munguia has yet to lose a single bout. While many fighters with perfect records are either
EIGHT is the magic number in this week’s Las Vegas fight predictions. First, Canelo predicted that he would finish Jaime Munguia before that round. Now, Munguia’s trainer Freddie Roach has countered with an eighth-round KO prophecy of his own. Snapping the legendary beard of Canelo, who has proven to be a difficult man to hurt
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 2, 2024, 10:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LAS VEGAS — Oscar De La Hoya issued a cease-and-desist letter Thursday to Canelo Alvarez over what he says are “defamatory allegations” that the Golden Boy Promotions founder stole money from former champion Gennadiy Golovkin, among other fighters. The legal letter, a copy of
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn weighs in on the news about Ryan Garcia testing positive for banned substances for his fight with Devin Haney and the reaction he has along with his fighter Haney. Here are some excerpts of what Hearn had to say below. “I woke up to missed calls from Devin and a text
LAS VEGAS – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s news-conference claims that his former promoter Oscar De La Hoya “tried to steal” from the fighter have been met by a legal letter asking that he retract the words while warning him to avoid repeat comments. “He said this outrageous lie not once, but several times – both in
Timothy Bradley Jr.May 2, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Close Timothy Bradley Jr. is an ESPN’s boxing analyst, a two-division, five-time world champion and a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Open Extended Reactions Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican Army’s victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla on May 5,