Eddie Hearn may be the rival promoter of Josh Taylor’s main domestic rival, Jack Catterall, but he was not short of praise for Scotland’s Taylor ahead of Saturday’s grudge match between the two fighters. Taylor (19-1, 13 KOs) and Catterall (28-1, 13 KOs) initially clashed in February 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland, in an ill-tempered affair
Month: May 2024
By: Sean Crose ESPN is reporting that former welterweight titlist Errol Spence is returning to the ring this coming October to face Sebastian Fundora for Fundora’s WBC junior middleweight title. It will be Spence’s first fight above the welterweight limit. Even more important, it will be Spence’s first fight since taking a terrible beating at
Lawrence Okolie once again has a “world title” around his waist after flooring WBC “bridgerweight” champion Lukasz Rozanski three times en route to a first-round finish. Okolie (20-1, 15 KO), nearly a year to the day after falling to Chris Billam-Smith, put Rozanski (15-1, 14 KO) down with his signature straight right inside of two
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 24, 2024, 01:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Sebastian Fundora and Errol Spence Jr. have agreed to a deal for a WBC junior middleweight title fight in October in Dallas, sources told ESPN. PBC’s hope is to stage the Prime Video PPV event at AT&T Stadium if the finalized date fits into
Welterweight Paddy Donovan (13-0, 10 KOs) hopes Lewis Ritson (23-3, 13 KOs) will be the step-up needed to show his ability when he climbs through the ropes this weekend at the First Direct Arena in Leeds. The Andy Lee-trained Donovan takes a significant step up when he faces Ritson on Saturday as part of the
THE RESULT: Lawrence Okolie showcases his power and drops Lukasz Rozanski three times to become WBC Bridgerweight champion with five seconds remaining in the opening round of their contest in Rzeszow, Poland. KEY MOMENTS: The early stages of the first round showed Rozanski’s over-eagerness and in doing so was tailor-made to be caught by Okolie’s
FOR any other fighter coming off a first professional loss, any win would have sufficed. However, for Lawrence Okolie, a man who has made a habit of winning fights but losing fans, there was never any question as to what he needed from tonight’s (May 24) WBC bridgerweight title challenge in Poland. The truth is,
This evening Lawrence Okolie will take on Lukasz Rozanski in Rzesow, Poland for the WBC bridgerweight title. And while he’s headed into the backyard of his opponent, he tells Sky Sports that he fully intends on blocking out all the noise from the crowd and taking care of business the way he knows how. “I’m
James Regan May 24, 2024, 05:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LEEDS, England — The rematch between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall is a classic case of winner takes all, while the loser could be cut adrift from the top of one of boxing’s most exciting divisions. The junior welterweight clash, which will be streamed
Jack Catterall’s former trainer has warned him that how he performed in his first fight with Josh Taylor will not be enough if he wants to win their rematch on Saturday night. The long-term rivals fight again, at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, little over two years after their first fight evolved into one
JACK CATTERALL insists that emotion will not play a factor in his rematch against Josh Taylor on Saturday night (May 25) in Leeds. The two super-lightweights meet at the First Direct Arena over two years since one of the most talked about judges’ decisions in recent years. On that February night in Glasgow, Taylor was
James Regan May 23, 2024, 09:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Jack Catterall wants to knock out Josh Taylor after he was controversially judged to have lost their first fight. Tim Markland/PA Images via Getty Images LEEDS, England — Jack Catterall has predicted he will earn a knockout victory over Josh Taylor in their junior welterweight
Matchroom Boxing will get a shot at reclaiming the IBF super featherweight title in the near future, as the IBF has ordered newly crowned champion Anthony Cacace to face mandatory challenger Eduardo Nunez. The pair have until June 22nd to come to terms. The obligation to face Nunez (27-1, 27 KO) came with the hardware,
The fight is billed as “Hate Runs Deep,” and the feud between Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall has captured the imagination. More than 11,000 will pack the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England, for Saturday’s grudge match, which is two years in the making. The bad blood is legitimate. The two put hands on one
Mike Coppinger, ESPNMay 23, 2024, 01:57 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Star boxer Ryan Garcia’s B-sample returned an adverse finding for the banned substance ostarine, per a Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory report viewed by ESPN. The A-sample, which was collected the day before and the day of his upset win over Devin Haney
Congratulations on your new title. Now, fight this knockout machine. That’s what the IBF effectively said on Thursday, ordering its new junior lightweight titleholder Anthony Cacace of Northern Ireland to immediately begin negotiations with his mandatory title contender, Eduardo Nunez. The Matchroom-promoted Nunez (26-1, 26 KOs), of Mexico, is coming off a second-round TKO of
By: Sean Crose Ryan Garcia, who stunned the world last month by generally beating up lightweight kingpin Devin Haney in a career defining victory now finds himself in the spotlight for having had a banned substance in his system before the fight went down in Brooklyn. Weeks ago, an A-sample of a drug test Garcia
Following the news of Ryan Garcia’s B-sample also testing positive for banned substance Ostarine, both Devin and Bill Haney took to social media to publicly respond. First Devin would ridicule Garcia for a supposed test on a hair sample which showed no trace of banned substances. “Ryan & his team knew he would test positive
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