It’s Tuesday and we’re back with a podcast! First Half: Big win for Ryan Garcia over Devin Haney, but how much credit can you give him, and what’s Garcia’s future at 147 or north of that? And does Devin Haney have major issues going forward at 140/147? PLUS: Arnold Barboza Jr has a bad night
Mike Coppinger, ESPNApr 23, 2024, 01:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Matchroom Boxing won today’s Jaron Ennis-Cody Crowley IBF welterweight title purse bid at $3.9 million, sources tell ESPN. TGB Promotions, which has Crowley on the short end of an 85-15 split, bid $2 million. Hearn told ESPN on Friday he plans to hold Ennis’
The Everton Red Triangle gym in Liverpool has spent years churning out some of the most business-like fighters on the British circuit. Paul Stevenson’s fighters are rarely involved in pre-fight shenanigans and – publicly at least – they never appear too excited by their success or too down about the disappointments. It is a trait
ROBBIE DAVIES JR will cross the pond for his next fight and does so with a new trainer. The 34-year-old Liverpudlian faces former IBF super-lightweight champion Sergey Lipinets on May 8 at the ProBox TV Events Centre in Plant City, Florida. Defeat for Davies Jr could bring the curtain down on an 11-year career. Lipinets,
Mike Coppinger, ESPNApr 23, 2024, 03:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions A junior middleweight fight between former champion Tim Tszyu and Vergil Ortiz Jr. is being planned for Aug. 3 in L.A., sources tell ESPN. Ortiz must first defeat major underdog Thomas Dulorme on Saturday and emerge uninjured in a bout that will serve as
Golden Boy promoter Oscar De La Hoya talks to Fight Hub TV and reflects on this past weekend’s PPV event, with Ryan Garcia scoring a big upset win over 140 lb champion Devin Haney. De La Hoya says Garcia will look to fight at a catchweight of 144 lbs for the near future, taking full
Super bantamweight Ramon Cardenas (24-1, 13 KOs), of San Antonio, Texas, will fight Eduardo Ramirez, better known as Jesus Ramirez Rubio (22-2-3, 16 KOs) – of Guaymas, Mexico in a ten-round main event on Wednesday, April 24th, live from the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida The telecast starts at 8 PM EST /
Posted on 04/23/2024 By: Sean Crose It appears the question of when the great Terence Crawford will return to the ring has been answered. According to numerous reports, the undefeated pound for pound king will make the leap to junior middleweight to take on WBA titlist Israil Madrimov at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium on August
The junior welterweight division doesn’t get a whole lot of respect. For superstar-level fighters, it tends to be just a way station between lightweight and welterweight. Floyd Mayweather popped in for three fights. Manny Pacquiao had one fight at junior welter, snagged the lineal title, and was gone. Shane Mosley skipped over the division entirely.
Terence “Bud” Crawford is set to move up to 154 lbs to face WBA titleholder Israil Madrimov on Saturday, Aug. 3, at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. Today, Salvador Rodriguez of ESPN reports that there are three fights set or near set for the pay-per-view undercard: Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz vs Jose “Rayo” Valenzuela Andy Ruiz
AFTER weeks of waiting, it was confirmed today that Chris Billam-Smith will defend his WBO Cruiserweight title against mandatory challenger Richard Riakporhe this summer. The date is set for June 15 outdoors at Selhurst Park – the home of Riakporhe’s favourite football team Crystal Palace FC – on a Boxxer promotion to be broascast live
ON FEBRUARY 27, Joe Taylor of Leyland passed away just two days short of his 89th birthday. Very few will remember Joe today, but he was the first man to put Howard Winstone onto the seat of his pants in a professional ring. Joe was a throwback to the old school, and he turned pro
Mike Coppinger, ESPNApr 22, 2024, 08:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz will fight Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller on Aug. 3 in Los Angeles while Pitbull Cruz will defend his WBA junior welterweight title against Jose Valenzuela, sources told ESPN on Monday. The fights will take place on the Terence Crawford-Israil
Ukraine’s Berinchyk’s half a decade-long wait for a shot at the WBO lightweight title is nearly over. Berinchyk, 18-0 (9 KOs) collides with Emanuel Navarrete for the vacant WBO belt at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego, California on May 18. Reigning super featherweight champion, Navarrete, makes his debut at 135 coming off a majority-decision
Trainer Robert Garcia shares his perspective on Ryan Garcia’s win over Devin Haney, how that win bolsters his career going forward, and why he would bring Haney back slowly if it were up to him. Check out some of what he had to say below. Robert Garcia on Ryan’s win over Devin “I think Ryan
WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has a hot proposition for the “Ring of Fire” fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury on May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. With the undisputed heavyweight title on the line in the blockbuster fight, Sulaiman wants to avoid a potential judging catastrophe by instituting six judges instead of the customary
Posted on 04/22/2024 By: Sean Crose Devin Haney took a beating from Ryan Garcia Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. That wasn’t how things were supposed to have turned out. Garcia, who had been acting bizarrely in the leadup to the fight, missed weight by a whopping three plus pounds and came across as not
Next update will come Monday, May 6, later in the day to give time for Inoue vs Nery (and a stacked undercard) to finish that morning. Ranked fights this period: Super Middleweight: (1) Canelo Alvarez vs (2) Jaime Munguia, May 4 Super Welterweight: (7) Yoenis Tellez vs Joseph Jackson, Apr. 26 Welterweight: (3) Mario Barrios