Feb 25, 2025, 05:48 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. face off in London in April. Leigh Dawney/Getty Images The winner of the highly touted April clash between Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. could face Canelo Alvarez, Turki Alalshikh confirmed. Benn (23-0, 14 KOs) and Eubank Jr. (37-3, 13 KOs)
Month: February 2025
Fox Sports AU reports that former WBO super welterweight champion Tim Tszyu is looking to kick off his 2025 campaign in an April 6th pay-per-view main event opposite Joey Spencer. A press conference is reportedly planned for around 90 minutes from time of posting. Tszyu’s (24-2, 17 KO) March 2024 defeat to Sebastian Fundora was
Nick ParkinsonFeb 22, 2025, 04:23 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Carlos Adames ended Hamzah Sheeraz’s 15-fight knockout streak with a split points draw to hold on to his WBC world middleweight title. Adames (24-1-1, 18 KOs), 30, from Dominican
Feb 24, 2025, 12:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Josh Padley has said there is a “very good possibility” he will be able to focus on boxing full time following his fight against lightweight world champion Shakur Stevenson on Saturday. Padley stepped up with four days’ notice when Floyd Schofield was forced to withdraw from
While Shakur Stevenson hopes to make a fight against Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, not everyone is exactly a fan of what that fight would look like. Here, Rolando Romero talks to Fight Hype about why he’s not all that thrilled about the idea of a Tank vs Shakur fight at the moment. “Who is a bigger
By: Sean Crose The interim WBC heavyweight title was on the line Saturday in Saudi Arabia as the 27-2-1 Zhilei Zhang took on the undefeated 25-0 Agit Kabayel. The bout, which was part of the massive Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol rematch card, was scheduled for 12. Zhan tagged his man hard right off the bat in
Nick ParkinsonFeb 24, 2025, 07:38 AM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions WBC world bantamweight champion Junto Nakatani scored two knockdowns on his way to a Round 3 knockout win over David Cuellar on Monday, which sets up a world title
Junto Nakatani made a fourth successful defense of his WBC bantamweight title in Tokyo, exploding past David Cuellar late in the third round with two knockdowns for a knockout victory. The 23-year-old Cuellar (28-1, 18 KO) was acquitting himself pretty well before Nakatani (30-0, 23 KO) just showed exactly why he’s who he is, ripping
By: Sean Crose The WBC super middleweight interim title was at stake Saturday in Saudi Arabia as the undefeated 22-0 Virgil Ortiz Jr. defended his belt against the 10-1-1 Israil Madrimov, who was widely known as possibly the only fighter to give Terence Crawford a run for his money (even though Crawford ultimately emerged victorious).
James Regan Feb 22, 2025, 05:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Joseph Parker beat Martin Bakole with a vicious Round 2 knockout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night. Parker (36-3, 24 KOs) sent Bakole (21-2, 16 KOs) crashing to the canvas after an overhand right struck the top of his
Junto Nakatani returns today in Tokyo to defend his WBC bantamweight title against David Cuellar in the main event of a three-fight bill. The fights will stream live on ESPN+ starting from 3 am ET. The show also features a WBA bantamweight title rematch between Seiya Tsutsumi and Daigo Higa, who fought to a draw
By: Sean Crose WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames, 24-1, defended his title belt on Saturday against the 21-0 Hamzah Sheeraz in Saudi Arabia. The fight was scheduled for 12 championship rounds. The first was something of a feeling out process for each fighter, as both men were strategically patient. The taller Sheeraz was able to
Open Extended Reactions Dmitry Bivol avenged his 2024 loss to Artur Beterbiev, defeating his rival by majority decision for the undisputed light heavyweight championship early Sunday morning at ANB Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The rematch was set 133 days after Beterbiev won a narrow majority decision in October, and the second fight was every
Monday, Feb. 24 ESPN+, 3:00 am ET, Junto Nakatani vs David Cuellar. For Nakatani’s WBC bantamweight title. It’s easy for these Japanese weekday sunrise shows to get lost in the shuffle here in the US, but this is a nice little main event. Another good matchup in support as Tenshin Nasukawa takes on Jason Moloney.
By: Sean Crose WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson took on the widely unknown Josh Padley Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Stevenson was supposed to have fought Floyd Schofield before Schofield had to drop out of the bout due to an illness. The 15-0 Padley subsequently took the fight on beyond short notice. The question, of course,
James Regan Feb 23, 2025, 04:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Dmitry Bivol has said he will consider a move up to cruiserweight after beating Artur Beterbiev to become the undisputed light heavyweight world champion. Bivol outpointed Beterbiev 114-114, 116-112 and 115-113 to win via majority decision and claim the WBA,
Internet problems and an occasionally unreliable stream weren’t enough to spoil another night of wild and violent fun at Redneck Brawl 9 from Knoxville, Tennessee. The promoters were calling for the venue’s IT support people during some choppy sections of the broadcast, but most of the 29 fights came through to deliver the reliable, ribald
By: Sean Crose The 35-3 Joseph Parker wasn’t only a former heavyweight champion. He was a man whose career was on the upswing after having gone through a rough patch. And on Saturday, Parker showed just how game he was when he got into the ring to face the towering, 300+ pound, undefeated, 21-1 Martin
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