Caribe Royale Resort, Orlando, Florida - William Foster III passed a difficult test, earning a hard-fought split decision against Edwin De Los Santos in an eight-round super featherweight bout. Two judges scored the fight 77-74 twice for Foster, with the third judge scoring it 77-74 in favor of De Los Santos. Foster (14-0, 9 KOs) of
Posted on 01/07/2022 By: Sean Crose Starling Castillo entered the ring at Orlando’s Caribe Royale Resort on Friday to put his 16-0 record on the line against the 10-0 Otar Eranosyan in a scheduled 8 round lightweight affair. Castillo’s height advantage was clear right from the opening bell. It looked as if it would be a
Boxers • Issue • Premium James Chance/Getty Images Rising middleweight Jordan Reynolds tells John Dennen how boxing has done wonders for him When and why you started boxing:I started boxing quite late, at 16 years old. A boxing trainer came to my gym, Graham Earl. He took me on the pads. My home life wasn’t
Issue • News • Premium Martin Rose/Bongarts/Getty Images Deion Jumah endured a difficult year but is chasing a shot at the British cruiserweight title after getting his licence reinstated by the Board of Control, writes Elliot Worsell TWO years ago, Deion Jumah appeared to have at last cracked it. Following years in the wilderness, he
History • Issue • Premium Jackie Brown [left] and Johnny King in Blackpool Alex Daley tells the story of the ramshackle Collyhurst gym that produced three outstanding champions THERE’S a fairytale quality to the boxing trope of the kid from humble beginnings who hits the big-time after learning his craft in a rundown, dingy gym,
IBF featherweight titleholder Kiko Martinez (43-10-2, 30 KOs) has reportedly agreed to terms with Josh Warrington (30-1-1, 7 KOs) to stage a March 26th title defense airing on DAZN, according to ESPN’s Mike Coppinger. Martinez and Warrington will once again collide in rematch of their 2017 fight which saw Warrington take a majority decision. Martinez,
Eight days into the New Year prizefighting mourns its first casualty of 2022. Arest Saakyan, aged 26, passed away from a cerebral edema yesterday in Tolyatti, Russia, as a fatal consequence of his last professional bout – an eight round knockout loss to Igor Semernin on December 26 in the very same city. Saakyan vs.
Posted on 01/08/2022 By: Hans Themistode With yet another win under his belt, Jake Paul is convinced more than ever that he deserves the boxing world’s respect. The social media star turned professional boxer started the second year of his pugilistic journey with a first-round knockout win over former MMA star Ben Askren. From there,
Just this week alone we’ve seen two top IBF heavyweight contenders pass on a final eliminator bout against Filip Hrgovic. First it was Luis Ortiz, who cited a hand injury as being the reason why he passed on the fight, and then it was Joseph Parker’s team who promptly opted out of that proposed fight.
Australian Mayhem Jason Moloney in eager to secure his shot at WBC bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire, as he looks to hammer down a final eliminator for the green and gold strap. (photo by Mikey Williams) Moloney defeated Joshua Greer in the middle of 2021, picking up the WBC Silver title, which puts him closer to
Posted on 01/08/2022 By: Sean Crose He stunned a lot of people when he bested Anthony Joshua for Joshua’s plethora of world heavyweight titles last year. Now it looks like Oleksandr Usyk might get a chance to prove his (somewhat surprising) win over Joshua wasn’t a fluke this coming April. Although it’s widely accepted that
2:24 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez are set to battle one more time. The future Hall of Famers have signed contracts for a unified 115-pound championship fight on March 5 at Pechanga Arena in San Diego, multiple sources told ESPN. Estrada-Gonzalez 3 will headline a Matchroom Boxing on DAZN
Super welterweight sensation Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora (16-0-1, 11 KOs) delivered a dominating second round TKO of former title challenger Habib Ahmed (27-2-1, 18 KOs)in their WBA Super Welterweight Title Eliminator. Fundora was in control from the outset, stunning Ahmed in the early moments of round one with a left uppercut from his intimidating
It appears that an actual fight between Ryan Garcia and Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz won’t come of recent talks, though it hasn’t prevented the two sides from trading blows online. The team surrounding Cruz has taken exception to claims made by Garcia and Golden Boy Promotions founder/chairman Oscar De La Hoya that the Mexico City native
DAZN subscribers won’t be starved for content these next two months. The network has officially revealed the octet of events set to grace every weekend in February and March, including some previously revealed main events, some that didn’t previously have dates, and a couple of new reveals. Chronologically: February 5th: Liam Smith vs. Jessie Vargas
Posted on 01/07/2022 By: Sean Crose The 15-0 Luis Nunez was featured in the main event of Friday’s ShoBox card from Orlando, along with the 14-0 Carlos Arrieta. Arrieta showed fast hands early on in the scheduled junior welterweight 10 rounder. The two men traded leather in the second. The third was a close, fast paced
4:52 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Joe Smith Jr. will defend his light heavyweight title on Jan. 15 after all as unheralded fighter Steven Geffrard signed Friday to replace Callum Johnson on eight days’ notice. Johnson tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and was forced to withdraw from the ESPN main event in Verona, New York.
Feature • Issue • Premium Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing Tony Sims, one of the trainers of 2021, on life with Benn, Cash, Ryder Cordina, Cheeseman… and Covid “IT’S crazy isn’t it? Boxing’s a crazy world. I got Covid. I had both jabs and I didn’t get Covid until I had my jabs, then I had the