Roman Gonzalez has hit out at speculation that he might meet fellow future International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Nonito Donaire. Over the weekend, Donaire had said there had been talks between the camps, but today Gonzalez has taken to X to say that whatever talking there had been had stopped. Filipino great Donaire, 41,
GOLD medal winner Imane Khelif has reportedly filed a formal legal complaint following the Olympic boxing gender row. The participation of Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, who also won gold in Paris, became a worldwide story due to their 2023 expulsion by IBA for failing ‘gender eligibilty tests’. The likes of Elon Musk and JK Rowling
LAS VEGAS — Vergil Ortiz Jr. needed this. The junior middleweight contender went to war with Serhii Bohachuk on Saturday night, going through hell, going the 12-round distance for the first time in his professional career. Heck, this was only the third time in Ortiz’s 22 pro fights that he had gone past seven rounds.
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 11, 2024, 12:36 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 Vergil Ortiz survived the first two knockdowns of his career to
MARC RAMSAY has ranked super-middleweight contender Christian Mbilli alongside light-heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev as one the best fighters he has trained to date. Ramsay’s resume includes former world champions Jean Pascal, David Lemieux and Eleider Alvarez, while also currently guiding Mbilli and Beterbiev out of his Montreal gym. “To be honest with you, he always
Angel Ayala Lardizabal escaped Felix Alvarado by the skin of his teeth to earn a shot at the IBF flyweight title, but there was nothing narrow about tonight’s championship over Dave Apolinario, whom Ayala hammered into submission in the sixth round. Apolinario (20-1, 14 KO) got off to a hot start, landing a number of
It had been almost 15 months since Kenneth Sims Jr. last entered the ring. But now that the junior welterweight contender has returned — stopping late replacement opponent Jonathan Romero after five rounds on Saturday night — Sims feels ready to get back to where he was before the layoff. “I definitely felt some rust.
Associated Press Aug 11, 2024, 06:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The nascent governing body fighting to keep boxing in the Olympics is about to get a major membership boost. World Boxing expects to expand its membership base to at least 50 national federations in the weeks after the conclusion of the Paris
LAS VEGAS – They no longer wear a world title belt, but they each stand as a four-division world champion. Their better days are behind them, but there’s plenty left in the tank. And as that finish-line beckons, wouldn’t it be something if they paused before it to face each other? Nonito Donaire of the
It was an all-action affair in tonight’s DAZN main event with Vergil Ortiz (22-0) taking a narrow majority decision win over Serhii Bohachuk (24-2) to take his interim WBC world title, and potentially setting up a fight against Terence Crawford — but more on that later. Both Ortiz and Bohachuk promised they would throw down,
By: Sean Crose The 21-0 Virgil Ortiz slipped in between the ropes at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas Saturday evening to face his biggest challenge to date, the 24-1 Serhii Bohachuk. Not only was Bohachuk’s WBC interim world super welterweight title at stake in the scheduled 12 round affair, a high profile and
Connor O’Halloran Aug 11, 2024, 07:56 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Imane Khelif, who endured intense scrutiny about her womanhood throughout the Paris Games, has filed a formal legal complaint in which she says she was the victim of online abuse. In a statement posted Sunday to Instagram, Khelif’s
By Daniele D’Alessio CANELO Alvarez and Gervonta Davis are two of the biggest pound-for-pound superstars, yet neither have worked with Turki Alalshikh. Just over two months remain until the one-year anniversary of Riyadh Season in boxing. Ever since Tyson Fury fought Francis Ngannou in the ‘Battle of the Baddest’ on October 28, 2023, Saudi’s grip
By Oscar Pick THE cruiserweight division is wide open, awaiting its next bona fide star to fill the void left by Oleksandr Usyk. Since the Ukrainian stepped up to further cement his greatness in the land of the giants, four formidable champions have seized the jewellery that fragmented following his undisputed reign. And yet, while
Featherweight Angelo Leo became a two-division world titleholder by knocking out Luis Alberto Lopez in the 10th round to win the IBF featherweight title at Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photos: Mikey Williams / Top Rank Inc.) Junior welterweight Lindolfo Delgado won a 10-round split decision over Bryan Flores in the co-feature. Junior middleweight
By: Sean Crose The ending had the whiff of Mike McCallum’s brilliant single punch knockout victory over Donald Curry back in 1987. In the midst of a close, high level fight, McCallum fired a left hook seemingly out of the blue that sent the popular Curry down and out in front of HBO cameras. This
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 11, 2024, 01:38 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 Angelo Leo scored a spectacular one-punch knockout of Luis Alberto Lopez
Angelo Leo claimed both the IBF featherweight title and a spot at the top of 2024’s Knockouts of the Year with a shocking one-punch knockout of Luis Alberto Lopez. Leo (24-1, 11 KO), fighting in his native Albuquerque, came out with a clear and effective gameplan: work the jab, punish Lopez’s (30-3, 17 KO) wild
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