THE thing that makes boxing such a compelling and unpredictable sport is also the very thing that makes it such a confusing and, at times, unnecessarily complicated sport. Every win ultimately carries the same value, yet there are so many ways for a boxer to win, and some wins, by their nature, feel more like
Month: July 2024
WILLIAM Zepeda knocked out Giovanni Cabrera in round three at the Toyota Arena, Ontario, last night. Awkward in his style and stance, wiry left-hander Cabrera enjoyed an excellent opening round, landing left hands and right hooks to keep Zepeda off balance. Trained by Freddie Roach, Cabrera lowered Zepeda’s relentless punch output until midway through the
Super middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. recorded the biggest win of his career by defeating former titleholder Daniel Jacobs in the co-feature of the Nate Diaz-Jorge Masvidal pay-per-view card Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Mosley won a 10-round unanimous decision with scores of 99-91, 99-91 and 100-90 in a tactical battle. Mosley (22-4,
By: Sean Crose WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson put his title, as well as his undefeated 21-0 record, on the line Saturday night in his native Newark, New Jersey as he took on the 12-1 Artem Harutyunyan. The fight was a scheduled 12 rounder and was the main event of an ESPN Top Rank card.
SHAKUR STEVENSON retained his WBC lightweight title at cruising speed against Artem Harutyunyan. The 27-year-old was a deserving winner on all three scorecards (119-109, 118-110, 116-112) against the outclassed Armeinian-born German who never got on the level of his American opponent. Stevenson, fighting at home inside Newark’s Prudential Centre, started the main event by spending
Johnny Fisher’s first main event was a rousing success, as the heavyweight prospect obliterated cult favorite Alen Babic in just . Fisher found a home for his right hand quickly — which is never too hard against Babic and his total indifference to defense — and it was game over pretty immediately. Babic might have
Even though negotiations between representatives for Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko are in progress, Shakur Stevenson has an opportunity to interrupt the conversation. On Friday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analyst and former welterweight world champion Shawn Porter said the unbeaten, three-division champion Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) can sharply raise the calls for
Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal fight again tonight, this time in a boxing ring, headlining a pay-per-view from Los Angeles. The show will start at 9 pm ET and we’ll be here with live updates throughout the evening. Diaz and Masvidal fought at UFC 244 back in 2019, with Masvidal scoring a third-round TKO on
JOHNNY Fisher weighed in around 25 pounds heavier than opponent Alen Babic yesterday afternoon. While, on paper, the pair appear to be two fairly evenly matched punchers, in reality, it feels like all-action Babic has found his boxing ceiling. Unbeaten Fisher, meanwhile, is still stretching up to find out the height of his own. “I’m
Paschal Collins revisited the most memorable of upsets in the heavyweight division as he prepares to guide Alen Babic against Johnny Fisher. Babic, 33 and from Croatia, is the underdog on Saturday evening against the popular Fisher at London’s Copper Box Arena, and largely because the bigger Fisher is perceived to be the more destructive
KEYSHAWN Davis continues his ascent towards world titles with a 10-round assignment against Miguel Madueño in Newark tonight. Sharing a card with Shakur Stevenson is all part of the big fight appeal for a young man closing in on the heavy hitters of 135 and surrounding areas. “It’s always special sharing a card with my
Despite previously floating the idea of giving Deontay Wilder a title shot, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced today that “bridgerweight” champion Lawrence Okolie has come to an agreement with interim champion Kevin Lerena for their ordered title consolidation. Lerena (30-3, 14 KO) is coming off a competitive decision loss to Justis Huni on the Anthony
Kazuto Ioka might be a future hall-of-famer but why are so few talking about him? One reason might be that his fights, at least for American audiences, are hard to find. Another is that his Japanese countryman, Naoya Inoue, has stolen all the headlines thanks to his spectacular style. Case in point: WBA bantamweight boss
By: Sean Crose On a snowy day back in the winter of 2017 I hopped on a Metro North in Connecticut and made my way down to Manhattan to cover the Genady Golovkin-Daniel Jacobs middleweight title fight. Defending champion Golovkin was at his peak at the time, going through one fighter after another while awaiting
ESPN News Services Jul 5, 2024, 05:18 PM ET Boxing star Ryan Garcia apologized Friday for his use of racial slurs against Black people and disparaging comments he made about Muslims during a recent livestream on social media. “I take all responsibility for my words,” Garcia wrote in a post on X. “Sorry everyone that
Ryan Garcia has formally been expelled from the WBC, meaning he’ll no longer be able to participate in any of the body’s sanctioned events after he took to social media yesterday to unload a series of comments and since-deleted tweets disparaging Blacks and Muslims. That prompted WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman to take immediate action, saying
William Zepeda’s latest opportunity to affirm his position as the top lightweight title contender in the world is to defeat a crafty fighter who came in two pounds heavier than him at Friday’s weigh-in. Giovanni Cabrera (22-1, 7 KOs) weighed 137 pounds — two pounds over the lightweight limit but right on the contracted weight
Golden Boy has finally revealed the supporting cast for Saturday’s showdown between WIlliam Zepeda and Giovanni Cabrera, which notably sees flyweight contender Ricardo Sandoval battle former light flyweight champion Angel Acosta. Sandova (24-2, 17 KO) is 20-1 in the last eight-ish years, the only loss a narrow majority decision to the very capable David Jimenez.