Mike CoppingerFeb 4, 2025, 12:18 AM 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 A meeting among promoters and boxing officials — including Top Rank CEO Bob Arum
Month: February 2025
The Ring’s Keith Idec reported yesterday that Naoya Inoue’s next three bouts would see him face WBC mandatory Alan Picasso this June in Las Vegas before a September homecoming and December Riyadh Season debut, both opposite TBA. Now, Salvador Rodriguez brings word that Inoue vs Picasso is targeted for June 14th. Inoue (29-0, 26 KO)
By: Sean Crose Ring Magazine reports that a hoped for dream fight between Canelo Alvarez and Terence Crawford is about to become a reality. The bout is said to be going down in Las Vegas as a Riyadh Season event in September. Not all that long ago, the bout was considered nothing more than a
Mike CoppingerFeb 3, 2025, 11:30 AM 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 Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s top star, and Terence Crawford are in the process of finalizing
Tuesday, Feb. 4 TrillerTV+ (?), 8:00 pm ET, CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing. Oliver McCall is back in action again, again! That’s the Boxing, and the Music is Krista Dudley. CountryBox has been a TrillerTV+ staple recently, but it isn’t listed at this point, even though fight promotional material includes the TrillerTV+ logo. One way
Claressa Shields became an undisputed champion again, albeit in a division that doesn’t really exist, as she defeated Danielle Perkins to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Shields (16-0, 3 KO) dropped Perkins (5-1, 2 KO) in the 10th and final round, and mostly dominated the bout otherwise, a fairly routine performance for
Eric WoodyardFeb 3, 2025, 12:21 AM ET Close Eric Woodyard covers the Detroit Lions for ESPN. He joined ESPN in September 2019 as an NBA reporter dedicated to the Midwest region before switching to his current role in April 2021. The Flint, Mich. native is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has authored/co-authored three
Caroline Dubois will make a defense of her WBC lightweight title on March 7 at Royal Albert Hall, and is officially set to face Bo Mi Re Shin as chief support on the Natasha Jonas vs Lauren Price card in London. Dubois (10-0-1, 5 KO) went to a technical draw with Jessica Camara on Jan.
James Regan Feb 1, 2025, 05:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Adam Azim beat Sergey Lipinets in London on Saturday. James Chance/Getty Images Rising British junior welterweight Adam Azim produced the biggest win of his career Saturday with a stoppage of Sergey Lipinets in the ninth round in London to claim the IBO title. On paper,
Mike CoppingerFeb 1, 2025, 08:21 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 David Benavidez takes on David Morrell on Saturday, in the main event of a
After getting dragged into a close-quarters slugfest the first time around, Fulton ( came out focused, staying away from the ropes and corners while tattooing the defensively inept Figueroa ( with straight shots. Figueroa, no stranger to starting slow and taking over through attrition, seemed content to hang out at Fulton’s preferred range for the
By: Sean Crose IIt all seemed to have gone beyond pre fight hype. Light heavyweight power houses David Benavidez, 29-0, and David Morrell, 11-0, truly seemed to not like each other. Perhaps it was a simple clash of personalities. Or maybe their scheduled Saturday night pay per view main event had too much on the
Open Extended Reactions Behind a sustained body assault and brutal power punching, David Benavidez outworked David Morrell to earn a unanimous decision in a battle of light heavyweight interim titleholders at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The clash between heated rivals was an entertaining battle of power punchers, but it would be Benavidez’s accuracy, aggression
Heavy pressure and a nonstop body attack carried David Benavidez to a decision victory over David Morrell Jr in tonight’s PBC on Prime PPV main event. The back-and-forth opening rounds saw Benavidez (30-0, 24 KO) push forward as Morrell (11-1, 9 KO) looked to back him off with explosive combinations. Morrell was confident enough to
Rather than face mandatory challenger Ricardo “Sugar” Nunez, IBF super featherweight champion Anthony Cacace announced that he’s vacated the belt in favor of chasing “the biggest fights possible. He technically ends his reign, which began with a controversial knockout of Joe Cordina last May, without a title defense. The IBF immediately ordered him to fight
David Benavidez and David Morrell Jr square off tonight in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view in a 12-round light heavyweight fight. Benavidez vs Morrell is the headline matchup of a four-fight pay-per-view bill from PBC on Prime Video, and we’ll be here all evening with LIVE updates, round-by-round scoring, highlights, recaps,
By: Sean Crose It’s the first major fight of the year: power punching light heavyweights David Morrell and David Benavidez will be squaring off tomorrow night in Las Vegas as the main event of a pay per view card. Although a minor title will be on the line, what’s really at stake here is the
Golden Boy has announced four multi-year signings in the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions. The promotional company has signed cruiserweights Tristan Kalkreuth and Robin Safar, as well as heavyweights Federico Pacheco Jr and Joshua Edwards, the latter of whom represented Team USA at the Paris Olympics. “The heavyweight division hasn’t been this hot in decades,” said
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