THERE is no denying the heavyweight division is on the brink of a sea change. Undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk is now 37 while Tyson Fury, who will attempt to win the hardware back at the end of the year, turned 36 on August 12. Anthony Joshua, who is eyeing a crack at the winner of
Month: August 2024
With Danny Garcia set to take on Erislandy Lara on a Sept. 14 fight in Las Vegas, Garcia takes some time to talk about having the last two years off, why he doesn’t expect to have much ring rust, and why this fight was the right one for him at this point in his career.
Junior featherweight boxer Elijah Pierce has embraced the moniker “WXXXLF,” using it as a way to reflect on the challenges he’s faced. Pierce (19-2, 17 KOs), of Lawrenceville, Ga., will take on Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin (35-8-1, 21 KOs) on Friday, Aug. 30, as part of OTX 10 at the OTE Arena in Atlanta. Pierce, 27,
It was the question that loomed large over the competition at Paris 2024: Will boxing still be on the schedule when they light the Olympic torch in Los Angeles in four years’ time? The simple answer is that, right now, nobody really knows. Since its introduction to the Olympic program in 1904, boxing has been
As expected, Terence Crawford is officially done with the welterweight division. The WBO announced today that “Bud” confirmed his intentions to stay at 154, prompting them to elevate interim champion Brian Norman Jr to full champion. This leaves the WBA “super” title as Crawford’s last remaining hardware at 147. They’ll presumably strip him and elevate
Trainer Rudy Hernandez believes that three-division titleholder Junto Nakatani could one day face undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue, although no timeline has been set, and the thought of the matchup gives him a light-hearted scare. In July, Nakatani defended his WBC bantamweight title with a first-round knockout of Vincent Astrolabio in Japan, sparking comparisons
THE days of Terence Crawford fighting at welterweight are now definitely over. After becoming undisputed world champion at 147lbs in July 2023 Crawford was stripped of his IBF title a few months later. A decision which appalled “Bud” but elevated interim belt holder Jaron Ennis to full champion status. Two months ago Mario Barrios was
Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya gave his immediate reaction to Vergil Ortiz’s majority decision win over Serheii Bohachuk and says while he believes it was a close fight, he does think Ortiz deserved the win. Check out some of what he had to say down below. De La Hoya on the Bohachuk vs
Roman Gonzalez has hit out at speculation that he might meet fellow future International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Nonito Donaire. Over the weekend, Donaire had said there had been talks between the camps, but today Gonzalez has taken to X to say that whatever talking there had been had stopped. Filipino great Donaire, 41,
GOLD medal winner Imane Khelif has reportedly filed a formal legal complaint following the Olympic boxing gender row. The participation of Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, who also won gold in Paris, became a worldwide story due to their 2023 expulsion by IBA for failing ‘gender eligibilty tests’. The likes of Elon Musk and JK Rowling
LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. needed this. The junior middleweight contender went to war with Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night, going through hell, going the 12-round distance for the first time in his professional career. Heck, this was only the third time in Ortiz’s 22 pro fights that he had gone past seven rounds.
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 11, 2024, 12:36 AM 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 Vergil Ortiz survived the first two knockdowns of his career to
MARC RAMSAY has ranked super-middleweight contender Christian Mbilli alongside light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev as one the best fighters he has trained to date. Ramsay’s resume includes former world champions Jean Pascal, David Lemieux and Eleider Alvarez, while also currently guiding Mbilli and Beterbiev out of his Montreal gym. “To be honest with you, he always
Angel Ayala Lardizabal escaped Felix Alvarado by the skin of his teeth to earn a shot at the IBF flyweight title, but there was nothing narrow about tonight’s championship over Dave Apolinario, whom Ayala hammered into submission in the sixth round. Apolinario (20-1, 14 KO) got off to a hot start, landing a number of
It had been almost 15 months since Kenneth Sims Jr. last entered the ring. But now that the junior welterweight contender has returned — stopping late replacement opponent Jonathan Romero after five rounds on Saturday night — Sims feels ready to get back to where he was before the layoff. “I definitely felt some rust.
Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 06:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The nascent governing body fighting to keep boxing in the Olympics is about to get a major membership boost. World Boxing expects to expand its membership base to at least 50 national federations in the weeks after the conclusion of the Paris
LAS VEGAS – They no longer wear a world title belt, but they each stand as a four-division world champion. Their better days are behind them, but there’s plenty left in the tank. And as that finish-line beckons, wouldn’t it be something if they paused before it to face each other? Nonito Donaire of the
It was an all-action affair in tonight’s DAZN main event with Vergil Ortiz (22-0) taking a narrow majority decision win over Serhii Bohachuk (24-2) to take his interim WBC world title, and potentially setting up a fight against Terence Crawford — but more on that later. Both Ortiz and Bohachuk promised they would throw down,
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