Nick ParkinsonJan 31, 2025, 07:50 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Get ready for a month of sustained high-quality boxing fights in what looks like a great start to 2025. The Feb. 22 card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, boasts perhaps
Month: January 2025
Riyadh Season is back with the theatrics. Late last year Turki Alalshikh’s company produced an epic trailer for the undisputed light heavyweight showdown between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol, and they’ve come back with another one in anticipation of the Feb. 22 rematch between the fighters. The rematch, which has been entitled The Last Crescendo,
Open Extended Reactions A great fighter in his prime tends not to be a charitable one, certainly not as it concerns rivals or those who may have beaten him. That’s why I’ll always remember what Keith Thurman told me back in 2016 — when he was rightfully moving up pound-for-pound lists and a potential successor
Y12 Boxing announced today that they’d successfully outbid Eye of the Tiger Management $878,000 to $776,000 for the right to stage the ordered IBF eliminator between Christian Mbilli and Kevin Lele Sadjo. Per their Instagram, they’re targeting a May date in Paris; based on their previous events, I’d expect DAZN to carry it. Mbilli (28-0,
New Series Provides Exclusive Access To Viral Superstars Jake And Logan Paul, Their Massive Stardom, And Their Complicated Family And Romantic Relationships With more than 150 million followers and multiple successful business ventures, Jake and Logan Paul will step into a new arena with the Max Original reality series PAUL AMERICAN, debuting THURSDAY, MARCH 27 on Max. Featuring archival
Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn has made some recent noise for his criticism of Naoya Inoue and his standing among the top pound-for-pound best fighters in the world considering the kind of competition he’s been facing lately. Here in this interview with iFL TV Hearn tries to explain his position while not completely discrediting Inoue. “I
James Regan Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Mikaela Mayer (R) and Sandy Ryan will fight for a second time on March 29. Mikey Williams/Top Rank WBO welterweight champion Mikaela Mayer has said she wants to silence the doubters ahead of a hotly anticipated rematch against Sandy Ryan, which has been confirmed for
ProBox TV announced today that, in a rare non-Thursday offering, Arnold Khegai vs Joet Gonzalez will headline a Saturday, March 8th show at Long Beach’s Thunder Studios. Ukraine’s Khegai (22-1-1, 14 KO) has kept largely under the radar since a 2020 loss to Stephen Fulton in a WBO super bantamweight eliminator, his biggest victory a
Timothy Bradley Jr. Jan 30, 2025, 07:50 AM ET Open Extended Reactions David Benavidez and David Morrell will meet Saturday (Premier Boxing Champions PPV on Prime Video, 8 p.m. ET), in what could be a fight of the year, with the winner taking a giant step forward toward a shot at the Artur Beterbiev vs.
By: Sean Crose “I have been waiting for this opportunity to fight Benavidez for a long time,” said David Morrell (via the World Boxing Council) who will be facing David Benavidez this weekend in a pay per view main event. “Saturday, February 1st, I promise Benavidez and everyone watching, it will be a great fight.”
New York, Jan. 30, 2025 — The 2025 Ring Masters Championships kicks off this weekend. Over the next 10 weeks, more than 400 amateur boxers will compete, hoping to make it to the finals at Madison Square Garden – The Mecca of Boxing. “Ring Masters season is my favorite part of the year. It’s an
With David Benavidez primed for this Saturday’s light heavyweight fight against David Morrell, he talks to the boxing media about how he’s hitting hit prime and why he expects that to show come fight night. Benavidez says he’ll be looking to punish Morrell while also putting his professional experience to use. “I really don’t like
By Eric Bottjer Michael Katz was one of the Big Four in New York boxing writing in the 1990s. Each of those writers reflected the personality of their publications. The loud and entertaining Mike Marley for the New York Post (the trash tabloid with world-class classless headlines {“Headless Man Found in Topless Bar” being the most famous,
With the IBF formally ordering a fight between Martin Bakole and Efe Ajagba as it’s heavyweight final eliminator, Bakole is on the verge of forcing his chance to contend for a major world title. Bakole’s promoter Ben Shalom tells Sky Sports that his fighter will waste no time and move to immediately enforce that mandatory
Salvador Rodriguez, confirming an earlier report from Fernando Barbosa, brings word that super lightweight contenders Subriel Matias and Gabriel Gollaz Valenzuela will meet in a previously ordered IBF final eliminator on March 1st in Puerto Rico. The winner would be in line for a crack at newly crowned champion Richardson Hitchins, who’s reportedly pursuing a
ESPN News Services Jan 28, 2025, 03:09 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Jake Paul and Logan Paul made social media announcements Tuesday that created widespread speculation the brothers would fight each other, but the teased March 27 event on streaming service Max will be a reality series rather than a boxing match, sources told ESPN’s
By: Sean Crose No one could blame him had he decided to spend some of his prime years waiting for Canelo Alvarez to agree to meet him in ring. Canelo, after all, is still the biggest name in the sport. Should he have somehow landed a fight with the Mexican star, and then somehow won
Rolando Romero speaks to Fight Hype about Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis’ upcoming fight with Lamont Roach and why he believes the deck is fully stacked in Tank’s favor. Unless Tank completely bottles it, Romero sees this as a surefire win for his former opponent. On the Gervonta Davis vs Lamont Roach fight “The thing is like,
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