History Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images Steve Bunce on the hellraiser, Randall Tex Cobb RANDALL ‘TEX’ COBB would have been a great Olympian, fighting in one of those Cold War classics from the Seventies or Eighties. After the carnage in Tokyo when Ricardo Torres Jnr beat Cuba’s Dainier Pero, they should be made obligatory. Cobb would have relished
Feature • Issue • Premium A new, hi-tech mouthguard could be game-changing for boxing. John Dennen finds out more WHAT if you could know straightaway whether an athlete had a head injury? After sustaining an impact what if you could get an instant diagnosis of its potential for concussion? It would revolutionise contact sports. It
Amateur Boxwise is a development programme for young people that began in London and has grown rapidly. It’s also a source of funds for England Boxing clubs BOXWISE, a non-profit social enterprise, has grown rapidly. The organisation delivers 13-week courses based on boxing for young people to develop further skills and learning opportunities. It was
Jerwin Ancajas is set for his next fight in the wake of watching a title unification bout collapse beyond his control. BoxingScene.com has learned that the long-reigning IBF junior bantamweight titlist will next face Argentina’s Fernando Daniel Martinez in a bout tentatively scheduled to take place on a February date in the United States. The
Posted on 12/27/2021 By: Hans Themistode The 2021 boxing calendar has been filled with upsets. Amongst a long list of them, was the mostly unforeseen result between Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk. Although the Ukrainian star had dominated the cruiserweight division, nabbing every world title en route to becoming an undisputed world champion, his performances
One of the most desired fights in female boxing in 2022 would be a potential pitting between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. The undisputed lightweight champion Taylor (20-0, 6 KOs), from Ireland, and featherweight queen Serrano (42-1-1, 30 KOs), a Puerto Rican based in Brooklyn, have both been gaining serious steam toward a showdown in
Posted on 12/27/2021 By: Hans Themistode Vasiliy Lomachenko has never been interested in taking the easy route. But the former multiple division titlist can’t say the same for Gervonta Davis. Following back-to-back runs in the Olympics that resulted in twin gold medals, Lomachenko immediately made the move to turn pro. While he would come up
Welterweight contender Josesito “The Riverside Rocky” Lopez (38-8, 21 KOs) stop Francisco “Chia” Santana (25-9-1, 12 KOs) in the 10th and final round of their clash. Lopez got off to a fast start in round one, connecting flush with a right hand and following up with hooks to the body to drop Santana midway through
Oleksandr Usyk is closing out 2021 as one of the top fighters in the sport. Back in September, the former undisputed cruiserweight champion became a two-division beltholder when he outboxed betting favorite Anthony Joshua over twelve rounds to capture the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight titles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Joshua has since exercised an
Posted on 12/25/2021 It was a quick night at the office for Yoelvis Gomez (5-0, 5 KOs). The super welterweight prospect easily took care of business agianst fan favorite Clay Collard at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The moment the opening bell sounded, Gomez met his man in the middle of he ring
2:30 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN In boxing, 2021 was a year that produced unexpected breakthrough performances from fighters such as Oleksandr Usyk and George Kambosos Jr. But those victories came at the cost of established stars who were seemingly poised to lock down perennial spots among boxing’s pound-for-pound best. Usyk’s upset victory to capture the
Former three division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko is very focused on completing his mission of regaining the world titles that he lost in 2020, according to Top Rank president Todd DuBoef. Last year, Lomachenko lost his WBO, WBC Franchise, IBF, WBA titles to Teofimo Lopez. Back in November, Lopez lost those titles to George Kambosos in
Feature • Issue • Premium Denver Post via Getty Images Light-heavyweight contender James Scott became a contender while serving time in Rahway prison, Ferdie Pacheco called it the ‘boxing university’ and Bob Hatrak, the prison warden, tells Tris Dixon the full story YOU would imagine that if an imprisoned boxer became a leading contender by
Feature Steve Bunce looks back on the night when a Yorkshire plasterer fought a bona fide legend, Roberto Duran DAVE the Plasterer hurt Roberto the Fighting God in round four when the pair somehow met at a casino in South Africa. This happened, by the way. At the end of eight rounds, Roberto Duran got
Posted on 12/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode Over the past few years, Gennadiy Golovkin has grown incredibly inactive. At his destructive peak, the Kazakhstan star made two or three yearly appearances. However, after scoring a concussive stoppage victory over Kamil Szeremeta in December of 2020, this year marked the first that Golovkin failed to enter the
Filipino puncher Mark Magsayo is getting geared up for the biggest opportunity of his career. On Saturday, January 22, Magsayo will challenge WBC featherweight world champion Gary Russell Jr. The Showtime televised fight will take place at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, N.J. Russell (31-1, 18 KOs) has held the WBC featherweight
Saturday, January 1 PPV, 8:00 pm ET, Luis Ortiz vs Charles Martin. 2022 kicks off right, as Premier Boxing Champions present a pay-per-view they are admitting isn’t worthy of pay-per-view by way of pricing it at $39.99, which once upon a time when some of us were more youthful and relevant was actually a premium
Posted on 12/26/2021 By: Hans Themistode After carefully surveying the cruiserweight landscape, Oleksandr Usyk was proud of what he accomplished. From 2016-2019, Usyk successfully dethroned every cruiserweight world titlist. In the process, the Ukrainian star became an undisputed champion. With little left to accomplish, Usyk opted to try his hand at the heavyweight division. While