Undisputed junior featherweight champion Naoya Inoue (27-0, 24 KOs) is set to defend his title against TJ Doheny (26-4, 20 KOs) on Tuesday at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Inoue has been on an extraordinary run, becoming an undisputed champion in both the bantamweight and junior featherweight divisions in consecutive years, 2022 and 2023. His place
Nick ParkinsonSep 2, 2024, 12:00 PM ET Close Reports on boxing for ESPN.com and has been covering British boxing for over 25 years. Open Extended Reactions Anthony Joshua will fight the winner of the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury rematch in 2025 if he beats Daniel Dubois on Sept. 21, according to the boxer’s promoter
FEW outside of TJ Doheny’s own camp are giving the Irishman much of a chance of springing the upset tomorrow over unified king Naoya Inoue. One thing is for sure, the solid southpaw will go down swinging, if (or, more likely, when) he goes down at all. Here’s a rundown of the vital statistics. Naoya
Eddie Hearn believes Anthony Joshua is a changed man ahead of his crunch September 21 clash against IBF heavyweight beltholder Daniel Dubois. The two meet as part of the first Riyadh Season event at Wembley Stadium, and while it is Hearn’s job to repurpose and repackage a fighter who has suffered three defeats, he is
As Naoya Inoue gets ready to defend his super bantamweight titles against TJ Doheny tomorrow at Ariake Arena, he tells Sky Sports that he’s been training harder than he ever has in his career. Inoue says he doesn’t think Doheny is the type of fighter who will be content just to go the distance, so
By Dan Morley THE crowning of a new heavyweight champion has long enticed the interest of boxing fans worldwide. A shift in boxing’s glamour division offers heavyweight contenders the crown jewel in sports: the world heavyweight title. The nature of uncertainty is always present when the sport’s Goliaths collide. The ever-changing structure of heavyweight supremacy
Don’t tell TJ Doheny he’s the underdog against Naoya Inoue. He’s not interested. Don’t tell the Australia-based Irishman he doesn’t deserve the shot. He doesn’t care. Don’t tell him he won’t win against the Japanese star. He doesn’t believe it. The often media-shy southpaw is 37 and, entering the fight of his life, has a
Adding another KO to his storybook career, Edgar Berlanga forced another RD1 TKO stoppage when he faced Cesar Nunez in December of 2019. Edgar takes on the biggest challenge of his life when the pound-for-pound king, Canelo Alvarez, on September 14 on Amazon Prime Video. Visit PremierBoxingChampions.com for more info. SIGN UP FOR FIGHT ALERTS:
Daniel Dubois sits down for a face to face conversation with upcoming opponent Anthony Joshua, along with their respective promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn, to talk about their upcoming IBF world title fight on September 21. Check out some excerpts of what the fighters had to say with the full video at the top.
By Steve Bunce MONTREAL, the battle for boxing power. It was the East against the West in the ring, a Cold War battlefield, the good guys against the bad guys at the Olympic boxing in Montreal in the summer of 1976. The Olympics in 1980 in Moscow and Los Angeles in 1984 were decimated by
Oscar De La Hoya has urged Floyd Mayweather Jr, the man who tightly outscored him over 12 rounds in 2007, to stop “embarrassing” himself in exhibitions and sort out his financial affairs. Mayweather, 47, had his last official bout in 2018 when he beat up debutant Conor McGregor to take his record to 50-0 (27
Tuesday, Sep. 3 ESPN+, 5:45 am ET, Naoya Inoue vs TJ Doheny. The Monster returns! Future hall-of-famer and living legend of the sport Naoya Inoue brings his latest pile of undisputed belts to face TJ Doheny – a tough, rugged, honest fighter, but one that’s 37 years old and already has four losses to men
NAOYA Inoue returns to action on September 3 in the Ariake Arena, and saying his opponent is an underdog would be an understatement. Inoue is expected, in most quarters, to win convincingly, and even in a two-horse race, where anything can happen, it might come as a surprise to see how few fight fans are
PART I: The Invited AT 2.30 pm, we approach the blue door, on time yet aware we cannot enter unless invited in. These are the rules, they have always been the rules, and for as long as they remain the rules this blue door represents the barrier between us; the barrier between the house’s occupants
By Mark Baldwin THEIR words are often spoken with venom. Their punches even more so. Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall share a rivalry that goes beyond anything we have previously seen on the female side of the sport. Back in 2022, at a sold-out O2 Arena, Shields sought revenge for her only defeat inside a
Diego Pacheco showed both aspects of why he’s one of the most exciting young contenders in the sport tonight in Carson, California in his latest DAZN main event. The young star used his skills and physical advantages early, then absolutely detonated the guts of Maciej Sulecki with a savage power punch to the liver to
Mandeep Jangra will face Nilo Guerrero for a minor junior lightweight belt on Sept. 19 at Legends Casino Hotel in Toppenish, Washington. Jangra (10-0, 7 KOs), from Kharian, India, trains under Roy Jones Jr. on Jones’ farm in Pensacola, Florida. Jangra, 31, who won silver medals at the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games as an
By: Sean Crose Rising super middleweight Diego Pacheco looked to impress Saturday night when he battled Maciej Sulecki in a scheduled 12 rounder in Pacheco’s home turf of Southern California. At 21-0, Pacheco was clearly the main attraction. The 32-2 Sulecki, however, was looking to take advantage of a relatively quiet boxing weekend by scoring
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