Olympic boxing resumes today, as we’re getting down to only medal fights. Today’s lone session will start at 3:30 pm ET. For those in the United States, you can stream all the action live with Peacock. Today we’ll see semifinals in three weight classes, as well as the first boxing gold medal to be contested
Featherweight Miguel Flores became a professional boxer nearly four months after witnessing his brother’s death during his last professional fight. Fifteen years later, Flores, now a 31-fight veteran at 32 years old, is set to face Michael Chase Nelson at the Bayou Event Center in Houston on Sept. 7. Flores recalled seeing Benjamin Flores being
By: Sean Crose Naysayers will walk away from Saturday’s junior middleweight title match in Los Angeles with the conviction that Terence Crawford can never defeat Canelo Alvarez. Or that four division champion Crawford is over the hill. Perhaps these people are right on both counts. Perhaps not. Where they’re certainly wrong, however, is in their
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderAug 3, 2024, 09:59 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 LOS ANGELES — Martin Bakole scored a devastating fifth-round TKO victory
60 seconds with Tysie Gallagher Age: 25 Twitter: @tysiegallagher Nationality: British From: Luton, Bedfordshire Stance: Orthodox Height: 5 ft 5 in Record: 7-2 Most recent fight: May 24 against Stevi Levy for the British and Commonwealth super-bantamweight titles. When and why you started boxing: I started when I was 11, and I went because I had just
ESPN’s Salvador Rodriguez brings word that former unified light flyweight champion Kenshiro Teraji’s vacant WBC flyweight title bout with Cristofer Rosales will land on October 18th in Teraji’s native Japan. No word yet as to the specific locale. Teraji (23-1, 14 KO) claimed his first world title just 10 fights into his pro career by
Pick It: Vergil Ortiz vs. Serhii Bohachuk When to Watch: Saturday, August 10, 8 p.m. eastern Time (1 a.m. BST) for the main broadcast. How to watch: DAZN for the main broadcast, Golden Boy Promotions’ YouTube page for the preliminary bouts. Why to Watch: Violence. Aggression. Entertainment. That’s what’s expected when junior middleweights Ortiz and
Aug 4, 2024, 01:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Terence Crawford overcame a tougher than expected challenge to become a four-division champion Saturday night in Los Angeles, defeating Israil Madrimov in a close decision to win the WBA junior middleweight title. Crawford (41-0, 31 KOs), fighting at 154 pounds for the first time, had some
Following Terence Crawford’s unanimous decision win over Israil Madrimov to snag a junior middleweight title over the weekend, Crawford appeared at the post-fight press conference to give some of his impressions on the fight. Check out some excerpts of what Crawford had to say about fighting Madrimov below. Crawford on fighting at 154 “I felt
The fight between two of the best junior welterweights in the world, Jack Catterall and Regis Prograis, has been reorganised for October 26. It was originally set for August 24, but Catterall recently suffered an undisclosed training injury. The venue remains the Co-op Live in Manchester. “I’m delighted that a new date for my fight
Aug 5, 2024, 09:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PARIS — The two female boxers at the heart of a gender dispute at the Paris Olympics will stay in the competition for as long as they keep winning because they meet all eligibility criteria, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday. The IOC is in
IMANE KHELIF, one of the most talked about athletes of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has called for the bullying to end amidst a row over her eligibility to compete. The 25-year-old Algerian faces Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng in the women’s welterweight semi-finals tomorrow (August 6). Khelif’s qualification for the last four has already guaranteed her
CANELO ALVAREZ is widely regarded as one of boxing’s greatest fighters of the modern era but his decision to not face David Benavidez continues to be questioned. Three months ago the 34-year-old notched up his 61st win in 65 bouts beating his fellow Mexican Jaime Munguia on points to retain his undisputed super-middleweight title. Next
LOS ANGELES – Terence Crawford overcame a complicated opponent in Israil Madrimov on Saturday night to score a close unanimous decision victory in his junior middleweight debut. The result of the tactical fight was still hanging in the balance heading into the 12th round, and Madrimov (10-1-1, 7KOs) could have mustered a majority draw if
By: Sean Crose Jared “Big Baby” Anderson and Martin Bakole, two supersized heavyweights, met in a ring in Los Angeles Saturday night to do battle in a scheduled ten rounder. A Bakole combination put Anderson down at the end of the first, a round Anderson had previously been fighting well in. Anderson got up and
Connor O’Halloran Aug 4, 2024, 11:24 AM ET Open Extended Reactions SEINE-SAINT-DENIS, France — After eight years of waiting, the Refugee Olympic Team will win its first medal at an Olympic Games this week. A portion of the team watched on and jumped with joy as boxer Cindy Winner Djankeu Ngamba fought in the women’s
Another Redneck Brawl has come and gone, as a raucous Oklahoma City crowd and a devoted pay-per-view TV audience say farewell to Redneck Brawl 7: Oklahoma vs Texas. The main event tonight was a much anticipated showdown between Tyler “Playboy” Holmes and comedian, musician, social media presence, and all-around post-millennium renaissance man Catfish Cooley, the
While a potential match between former welterweight titleholder Errol Spence Jr. and junior middleweight Sebastian Fundora has yet to be made official, it remains a fascinating fight that could wind up on one of Premier Boxing Champions’ pay-per-view slots on Amazon’s Prime Video. “That’s an intriguing fight to me, just to see how Errol comes
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