Kellie Harrington of Ireland won her second straight Olympic gold medal today, outboxing China’s Yang Wenlu in the women’s 60kg (lightweight) final bout today in Paris. Harrington also won gold in Tokyo three years ago. Harrington won the bout 4-1, taking four scorecards at 29-28 apiece, with Yang winning the remaining card, also scored 29-28.
Month: August 2024
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – No longer is the spotlight evasive. No more is the dodging by others possible. For Vergil Ortiz, there is no more time to waste. Boasting the imposing record of 21-0 with 21 knockouts, Texas’ Ortiz returns to the ring for the third time this year Saturday night at Mandalay Bay’s Ultra Arena
IMANE Khelif is in the Paris Olympics welterweight (66kgs) final after defeating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng via unanimous decision. Khelif is now just one win away from securing the gold medal, which she believes will silence her critics. Khelif outpointed the Thai southpaw to reach the final of last year’s World Championship before being disqualified. Suwannapheng
KELLIE HARRINGTON is Ireland’s history-making golden girl, defeating China’s Wenlu Yang in the lightweight final this evening. The win makes it back-to-back Olympic gold medals for the Dubliner who also struck gold at Tokyo 2020. This was a repeat of the 2016 World Championship final, which Yang won on points. She raced out of the
Next update will come on Monday, August 19. Ranked fights this period: Super Middleweight: (3) Christian Mbilli vs (4) Sergiy Derevyanchenko, Aug. 17 Super Middleweight: (10) Oselys Iglesias vs TBA, Aug. 17 Super Welterweight: (7) Serhii Bohachuk vs (8) Vergil Ortiz Jr, Aug. 10 Flyweight: (4) Angel Ayala vs (8) Dave Apolinario, Aug. 9 Notes:
Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, says he made an offer to Canelo Alvarez to face Terence Crawford in a super-fight between two of boxing’s best. But on Monday, Canelo disputed that idea, saying the proposal hasn’t reached him yet. “I don’t have any offer,” Canelo said following a news conference
SANDY RYAN will put her WBO welterweight title on the line against challenger Mikaela Mayer on September 27 in New York’s Madison Square Garden Theater. Taking the first step of a rebuilding process after suffering a close loss to Natasha Jonas in England, Mayer hopes that bringing a UK boxer over the pond will help
Olympic boxing resumes today, as we’re getting down to only medal fights. Today’s lone session will start at 3:30 pm ET. For those in the United States, you can stream all the action live with Peacock. Today we’ll see semifinals in three weight classes, as well as the first boxing gold medal to be contested
Featherweight Miguel Flores became a professional boxer nearly four months after witnessing his brother’s death during his last professional fight. Fifteen years later, Flores, now a 31-fight veteran at 32 years old, is set to face Michael Chase Nelson at the Bayou Event Center in Houston on Sept. 7. Flores recalled seeing Benjamin Flores being
By: Sean Crose Naysayers will walk away from Saturday’s junior middleweight title match in Los Angeles with the conviction that Terence Crawford can never defeat Canelo Alvarez. Or that four division champion Crawford is over the hill. Perhaps these people are right on both counts. Perhaps not. Where they’re certainly wrong, however, is in their
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 3, 2024, 09:59 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 LOS ANGELES — Martin Bakole scored a devastating fifth-round TKO victory
60 seconds with Tysie Gallagher Age: 25 Twitter: @tysiegallagher Nationality: British From: Luton, Bedfordshire Stance: Orthodox Height: 5 ft 5 in Record: 7-2 Most recent fight: May 24 against Stevi Levy for the British and Commonwealth super-bantamweight titles. When and why you started boxing: I started when I was 11, and I went because I had just
ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez brings word that former unified light flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji’s vacant WBC flyweight title bout with Cristofer Rosales will land on October 18th in Teraji’s native Japan. No word yet as to the specific locale. Teraji (23-1, 14 KO) claimed his first world title just 10 fights into his pro career by
Pick It: Vergil Ortiz vs. Serhii Bohachuk When to Watch: Saturday, August 10, 8 p.m. eastern Time (1 a.m. BST) for the main broadcast. How to watch: DAZN for the main broadcast, Golden Boy Promotions’ YouTube page for the preliminary bouts. Why to Watch: Violence. Aggression. Entertainment. That’s what’s expected when junior middleweights Ortiz and
Aug 4, 2024, 01:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Terence Crawford overcame a tougher than expected challenge to become a four-division champion Saturday night in Los Angeles, defeating Israil Madrimov in a close decision to win the WBA junior middleweight title. Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), fighting at 154 pounds for the first time, had some
Following Terence Crawford’s unanimous decision win over Israil Madrimov to snag a junior middleweight title over the weekend, Crawford appeared at the post-fight press conference to give some of his impressions on the fight. Check out some excerpts of what Crawford had to say about fighting Madrimov below. Crawford on fighting at 154 “I felt
The fight between two of the best junior welterweights in the world, Jack Catterall and Regis Prograis, has been reorganised for October 26. It was originally set for August 24, but Catterall recently suffered an undisclosed training injury. The venue remains the Co-op Live in Manchester. “I’m delighted that a new date for my fight
Aug 5, 2024, 09:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The two female boxers at the heart of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics will stay in the competition for as long as they keep winning because they meet all eligibility criteria, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. The IOC is in
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