Timothy Bradley Jr. Feb 13, 2025, 07:52 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Since ESPN published its annual list of future standouts in each boxing division, many of those fighters have taken a step closer to winning a championship over the last year. Heavyweight Agit Kabayel will face Zhilei Zhang on Feb. 22 for the WBC
Month: February 2025
This Friday Keyshawn Davis gets his shot at his first world title when he challenges WBO lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk. Both fighters appeared for a final press conference today and things appear to be getting off to a relatively tame start until Davis accused Berinchyk of making racist gestures. “I want to address the fact
Lance Pugmire reports and Mike Coppinger confirms that the IBF interim lightweight title fight between Zaur Abdullaev and Raymond Muratalla, previously planned for April 5th, will instead land in San Diego on May 10th to accommodate Abdullaev’s observance of Ramadan. Per Pugmire, a planned super lightweight bout between Lindolfo Delgado and Elvis Rodriguez could fill
By: Sean Crose Oleksandr Usyk has certainly had quite a career for himself. It’s not every day that a fighter becomes an undisputed champion of not one, but two separate weight divisions. It’s even less likely that those divisions would be the heavyweight and cruiserweight realms respectively. Yet in the past decade Usyk has found
Feb 12, 2025, 02:32 PM ET Imane Khelif, who won Paris Olympics boxing gold amid a gender eligibility row, has accused the International Boxing Association of making “false and offensive” accusations after it launched legal action against the IOC for allowing her to compete. The IBA announced in a statement Monday it was filing a
Richard Riakporhe speaks to iFL TV about his upcoming April 5 fight against Lawrence Okolie and what’s the deal with his supposed beef with his opponent. Riakporhe himself doesn’t appear to have a genuine personal vendetta against Okolie but says he is a bit agitated with Okolie acting out in public at a 2023 movie
James Regan Feb 12, 2025, 11:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Oleksandr Usyk (L) fought Daniel Dubois in 2023. Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images LONDON — Unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk has brushed off persistent callouts from Daniel Dubois and revealed he has no plans in place for his next fight. Following Usyk’s victory over
Sebastian Fundora will defend his WBC and WBO super welterweight titles on Saturday, March 22, facing Chordale Booker in a Premier Boxing Champions main event on Prime Video. Fundora, 27, will be making the first defense of the belts he took from Tim Tszyu last year, and the fight will end what will be just
Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 11:48 PM ET Boxer Mark Weinman, who returned from a nearly 21-year layoff to win a professional bout at age 50, has died. He was 62. Weinman, from the borough of Queens in New York City, died Feb. 8 in Mesa, Arizona, his brother, David, told The Associated Press. Mark
By: Sean Crose In what is likely a surprise to no one, Top Rank Promotions and ESPN are reportedly going their separate ways when their partnership legally wraps up this summer. While ESPN certainly put some terrific matches out there, Top Rank seemed to be pushed aside by UFC. In a world where boxing is
Mike CoppingerFeb 11, 2025, 03:32 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 Bruno Surace and Jaime Munguia are finalizing a deal for a May 3 rematch
Joseph Parker talks to Sky Sports ahead of his upcoming fight with Daniel Dubois about his thoughts on the fight and his opponent. Parker says this is the chance to prove he’s worthy of another big fight and aims to expects to do so against Dubois. “I know that Daniel Dubois is high in confidence
James Regan Feb 11, 2025, 06:30 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Dillian Whyte has said he and Frank Warren have been “repairing some damage,” with a blockbuster clash against fellow British heavyweight Joe Joyce the result. Whyte will headline a huge Queensberry show with Joyce on April 5 in Manchester in what will be his
Salvador Rodriguez reports that former IBF featherweight champion Luis Alberto Lopez will return to action on March 29th in his native Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Lopez (30-3, 17 KO) rose to prominence with high-profile upsets of Gabriel Flores Jr and Isaac Lowe before edging out Josh Warrington for the belt in 2022. Successful defenses against
Former super featherweight champion Shavkat Rakhimov had as disastrous a lightweight debut as you can imagine this past Saturday, suffering his second consecutive knockout loss to Justin Pauldo on ProBox TV. Julius Julianis reported the following day that “Shere Khan”, who left the ring on a stretcher, was subsequently hospitalized for a brain bleed. Thankfully,
By: Sean Crose William Scull is not nearly as famous as Jake Paul. Nor is he as famous as Terence Crawford. Or David Benavidez. Or Dmitry Bivol for that matter. In fact, Scull arguably isn’t famous at all, not even among fight fans. It doesn’t matter. None of the names mentioned above are going to
James Regan Feb 10, 2025, 05:29 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Queensberry have announced a bumper British card set for April 5 in Manchester, England, with heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Joe Joyce locking horns in the main event. The undercard features Lawrence Okolie taking on Richard Riakporhe in another all-British heavyweight clash. Whyte (31-3, 28KOs),
After suffering his first-ever defeat to Canelo Alvarez last September, super middleweight Edgar Berlanga will kick off his 2025 campaign against Jonathan Gonzalez-Ortiz on Matchroom’s March 15th “Ammo” Williams vs Patrice Volny show in Orlando. Matchroom’s announcement Tweet highlights Gonzalez-Ortiz’s (20-0-1, 16 KO) undefeated record, but as you’ve probably guessed, there’s not a whole lot
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