Month: June 2024

Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJun 25, 2024, 06:44 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Oleksandr Usyk announced via Instagram on Tuesday that he is vacating
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Super middleweight Lester Martinez hopes victory over Carlos Gongora will establish him as a top contender. Martinez and Gongora will co-feature on Friday night’s card in Washington, D.C., headlined by Lamont Roach Jr. against Feargal McCrory, broadcast on ProBox TV. Martinez, who trains with the “three-headed monster” team of Brian “Bomac” McIntyre, Red Spikes and
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By: Sean Crose It was fun while it lasted. Sadly, the world no longer has an undisputed heavyweight champion. In a video message released on Tuesday, Oleksandr Usyk announced that he was vacating the IBF heavyweight title, leaving him in possession of the WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight titles, impressive to be sure, but not
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Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJun 25, 2024, 08:02 PM ET Close Mike Coppinger has covered boxing since 2010 with roles at USA Today, Ring Magazine and The Athletic before he joined ESPN in 2021. You can follow him on Twitter: @MikeCoppinger Open Extended Reactions Former flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez was suspended for nine months
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A day before the expected announcement of Matchroom’s and Queensberry’s September 21st megashow at Wembley, undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk announced via Twitter that he’s vacating his IBF title to allow Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois to fight for it. This is not an unexpected outcome, as the IBF made clear before Usyk’s (22-0, 14
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By Oscar Pick BLOCKBUSTER shows in Japan await the winner of this Saturday’s WBC and Ring Magazine super-flyweight clash between Juan Francisco Estrada and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez. Estrada returns to the ring in December 2022 following an epic trilogy decider against Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, putting his belts on the line in Phoenix, Arizona.  Stepping up
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