Amateur • Issue • Premium Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Galal Yafai and Lauren Price are the male and female amateur boxers of 2021. John Dennen reviews the Olympic year BRITISH boxing has never had a year like 2021. It surely won’t again for another century. Amid a global pandemic, that for the first time in their
Less than two months after claiming super featherweight gold in her biggest win to date, Alycia Baumgardner has signed a “multi-fight promotional deal” with Matchroom Boxing. Baumgardner (11-1, 7 KO), whose sole prior defeat came by 2018 split decision to future super lightweight champion Christina Linardatou, came out of virtually nowhere to demolish Terri Harper
Top heavyweight Luis “King Kong” Ortiz and former world champion Charles Martin went face-to-face at the final press conference Thursday before they meet in an IBF Heavyweight Title Eliminator headlining a FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View this Saturday, January 1 from Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. (photos by
Posted on 12/30/2021 By: Hans Themistode Ryan Garcia was on the verge of making 2021 his breakout year. On the second day of the new year, the 23-year-old proved he was more than just some flashy fighter by picking himself up off the deck against Luke Campbell to score a seventh-round stoppage victory. From there,
Kazuto Ioka secured a Plan B after his planned NYE unification with Jerwin Ancajas fell through, and now “Pretty Boy” has done the same. Rappler reports that Ancajas will defend his IBF super flyweight title against 13th-ranked contender and 2016 Olympian Fernando Daniel Martinez this coming February. BoxRec has the bout listed on the 5th,
Isaac Cruz catapulted himself into top contender status in the lightweight division after giving Gervonta Davis all he could handle in their closely contested Showtime pay-per-view fight. Davis won a unanimous decision with scores of 115-113 twice and 116-112 and outlanded Cruz by just a narrow margin of 133 and 121. Although the 23-year-old Mexican
“Prince” Charles Martin is on the rise again in the stacked heavyweight division. He faces Luis “King Kong” Ortiz on January 1, 2021, to open the New Year. The former world title-holder is looking as good as ever in the ring and determined to regain the world heavyweight championship in the new year. #CharlesMartin #OrtizMartin
Posted on 12/29/2021 By: Sean Crose “I still believe he’s one of the best in the division,” welterweight Mario Barrios said Wednesday of his February 5th opponent, former world titlist Keith Thurman. “I’m trying to chase greatness.” Barrios may be the underdog heading into his pay per view throwdown with the individual known as “One
8:30 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN After 2020 significantly cut down the volume of fights and memorable moments fans are accustomed to in boxing, 2021 delivered in a major way. Looking back at the last 12 months, the year could best be described as “the year of the upset,” with several key title fights that going
Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch explains that Anthony Joshua has all of the necessary attributes to turn things around in a rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. In September, Usyk outboxed Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, IBO, WBO, WBA titles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Joshua has exercised an immediate rematch clause, with dates
The war of words because UFC’s Dana White and celebrity boxer Jake Paul probably isn’t going to stop any time soon, as White has thrown another shot toward Paul. “I got a challenge for Jake Paul. This guy keeps saying that I’m a coke head, right? He can randomly cocaine test me for the next
Posted on 12/29/2021 By: Sean Crose “After the Tank fight, I got a lot of love from the fans,” Leo Santa Cruz says in a video interview with Fight Hype. “That motivates me.” The “Tank fight” was a late 2020 affair that saw then super featherweight titlist Santa Cruz get knocked out in thunderous fashion,
Opinion Boxing News readers named the first Ali-Frazier contest as the best fight of the seventies, but what were your choices for the best fights of the 1980s? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one –
Feature When looking back on British heavyweights of the 80s it’s difficult to find a happy ending, writes Steve Bunce TREVOR HUGHROY CURRIE was part of Britain’s very own generation of lost heavyweight champions from the Eighties. There was the original fabled gang of fighting brothers, dubbed the Lost Generation by Tim Witherspoon; they reigned
The outpouring of support received by Leo Santa Cruz following a crushing defeat made that otherwise forgettable moment that much easier to overcome. The former four-division titlist did not dwell for long on his brutal sixth-round knockout loss to Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis last Halloween. The entertaining junior lightweight title fight was engaging to fans in
Posted on 12/29/2021 By: Hans Themistode Photos by Esther Lin Most of the boxing world was left shellshocked when it was announced that Canelo Alvarez would move up from 168 pounds to the cruiserweight division to take on WBC belt holder Ilunga Makabu. Although the Mexican star once captured a world title at 175 pounds
Matchroom Boxing’s impending move into the Australian market has picked up another name, as unbeaten junior welterweight Liam Paro has signed a “long-term” deal with the promoter. Paro (22-0, 13 KO) scored a notable win over Yomar Alamo on the Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley undercard on Dec. 18 in Florida, and the 25-year-old will
Eddie Hearn talks about Billy Joe Saunders’ place on the KSI vs Logan Paul 2 show and fighters’ reactions to the event in general. Subscribe for updates – http://goo.gl/meA2GB Enter The KO Cup – http://bit.ly/enterthekocup More boxing news 24/7: http://goo.gl/aJFtws Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/VDYVMP Like on Facebook: http://goo.gl/mI5B64 SecondsOut is a world leader in boxing