Jack Catterall has had a few weeks to recover from October’s decision victory over Regis Prograis and is ready to begin planning a big 2025. In recent days, Catterall has revealed that his preparations for the fight had been severely hampered by damaged ribs and a heavy cold. The fight itself wasn’t exactly straightforward, either.
Month: December 2024
A PROPOSED card in Riyadh on February 22 continues to be the subject of online speculation but one fight is a done deal according to a promoter. It’s no secret that Turki Alalshikh had planned on having Matchroom’s WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson, 22-0 (10 KOs), on the first Riyadh Season card of 2025. The
CALLUM SMITH still carries the ambition of becoming a two-weight world champion and knows one fight which can take him closer to that goal. Last week promoter Eddie Hearn said he’s keen to make a big domestic fight for ‘Mundo’ early in 2025. And one name that keeps coming into conversations is that of 2016
Notes: Obviously we have the big Usyk vs Fury rematch this month, and the look of the division in 2025 will take shape from there. If Fury wins, there’s every chance we get a rubber match, while Eddie Hearn stays on the sidelines of it all praying for Anthony Joshua to get a Tyson Fury
Mickey Bey’s career might not have been perfect, but the former IBF lightweight titleholder is always about finding ways to win, even when the odds weren’t in his favor. Now 41, the Cleveland-born fighter is in the twilight of his career, training only a select few while keeping the door open for a few more
Tuesday, Dec. 3 TrillerTV+, 8:00 pm ET, CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing. Kish Moody is the music. And, if you’re looking for a justifiable reason to shout WATER BAG! at your TV? Curtis Harper is among the boxing. Saturday, Dec. 7 DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Mahmoud Charr vs Kubrat Pulev. Let’s just establish straightaway that,
With Matchroom Boxing plotting a busy start to 2025 in the UK alone, with up to five shows being staged on British soil in the first three months of the year, former world junior welterweight king Josh Taylor is expected to be among those in a starring role. The 33-year-old’s career has lost momentum in
Prior to his knockout win over Pedro Guevara, pint-sized puncher ‘Bam’ spoke to Rob Tebbutt… JESSE RODRIGUEZ has established himself as one of the best fighters on the planet. The 24-year-old has been tearing through the lower weights since capturing his first world title back in February 2022 and, with a destructive seventh round stoppage
With Richardson Hitchins scheduled to take on IBF super lightweight titleholder Liam Paro on December 7, Matchroom releases it’s latest installment of Make The Days Count which highlights behind the scenes footage of both fighters as they prepare for battle. Hitchins is coming off perhaps his most difficult fight yet, a decision win over Gustavo
Amid the disappointment that Vergil Ortiz and Jaron Ennis will not be fighting each other on February 22, Puerto Rican starlet Xander Zayas has indicated on social media that he has accepted an offer to take on Ortiz in Saudi Arabia instead. It is believed that Ennis, the IBF welterweight titlist, was unsure about moving
KAL YAFAI says future opponents of his brother Galal need to possess power if they are to contain him. Galal, 9-0 (7 KOs), produced a career breakout performance to stop former IBF flyweight champion Sunny Edwards, 21-2 (4 KOs), in six rounds. The writing was on the wall from the beginning when the unbeaten contender
WHAT was once a potentially thrilling addition to a bumper February 22 card in Riyadh has turned into another social media argument. This past week, it had been claimed that IBF welterweight champion Jaron Ennis, 33-0 (29 KOs), and WBC Interim super-welterweight belt holder Vergil Ortiz Jr, 22-0 (21 KOs), were all set for a
It’s not just her journey in the ring but the life outside it that has forged the 34-year-old junior welterweight Amelia Moore into a fighter unlike most. Raised on a farm in Norway, Maine, and now residing in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Moore’s path to professional boxing has been anything but typical. Her debut fight –
By: Sean Crose “I’ve always said I’ll fight anybody and I remained true to my word,” Vergil Ortiz Jr, posted on social media Saturday. “Every single person that I have been offered to fight I said yes. It takes 2 to tango in boxing, so if I’m not in that ring fighting someone, know it’s
Galal Yafai destroyed a listless and often worrying Sunny Edwards tonight in Birmingham, England, claiming the interim WBC flyweight title with a sixth round TKO victory. Yafai (9-0, 7 KO) brought heavy pressure to Edwards (21-2, 4 KO) from the jump, and the 28-year-old Edwards never got into the fight at all, displaying troubling emotions
Nick ParkinsonNov 30, 2024, 06:50 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Galal Yafai proved he was more than ready for Sunny Edwards as he stormed to a sensational sixth-round stoppage win over the former world flyweight champion, who afterwards announced