News David Avanesyan retains his European welterweight title with dominant showing at Wembley Arena DAVID AVANESYAN retained his European welterweight title with a second round stoppage of Liam Taylor at Wembley Arena. Referee Mark Lyson stepped in at 2-18 of the session as the impressive Avanesyan – ready for another raid at world level –
Dillian Whyte’s willingness to fight Otto Wallin wasn’t surprising to Wallin’s promoter. Whyte has long demonstrated that he’ll fight heavyweights others might view as high-risk, low-reward propositions. Dmitriy Salita still thinks Whyte made a mistake by choosing the Swedish southpaw as his opponent for a 12-round main event October 30 at O2 Arena in London.
Posted on 10/02/2021 By: Sean Crose Say it ain’t so! Canelo Alvarez, perhaps the most popular and serious minded practitioner in all of boxing appears to be willing to some day face social media star turned boxer Jake Paul – maybe. “We don’t know,” he told FightHype, “you can never say never.” Before every serious
News Richard Heathcote/Getty Images Chris Eubank Jr’s bout falls off the bill, but the show still goes on CHRIS EUBANK JR’S fight tonight has been called off. It was announced on the day of the contest at the SSE Arena in Wembley that his opponent Anatoli Muratov had failed a medical. It’s another unfortunate twist
Multi-division champion Amanda Serrano was the highest-profile figure on Jake Paul’s last pay-per-view, and that partnership is now official. Serrano announced on Twitter that she’s joined forces with Paul’s newly-former Most Valuable Promotions. Paul and advisor Nakisa Bidarian tell ESPN’s Marc Raimondi that “talks are ongoing” with Eddie Hearn for a megafight with Katie Taylor
Chris Eubank Jr says that Roy Jones Jr. is the first trainer who has taught him to think in the ring, rather than just doing things on instinct. Eubank has his second fight with Jones in his corner on Saturday at Wembley when he faces Germany’s Anatoli Muratov. They first teamed up during the pandemic,
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose Anyone paying attention to the Olympic Boxing scandal now rocking the sport’s world can tell that the sport of amateur boxing is in trouble – and has been for a long time. Yet there are those who are quite unhappy with professional boxing, as well. Fight cancellations, Twitter feuds,
Amateur Christian Petersen/Getty Images Richard McLaren delivers a shocking, but not surprising, report into corruption at AIBA before and during the Olympic boxing tournament at Rio 2016 CORRUPTION and manipulation marred the boxing tournament at Rio, as well the events leading up to that competition. We knew something was rotten in AIBA but the first
Order #FuryWilder3 on Pay-Per-View NOW: https://pbcham.ps/FuryWilder3-PPV5 Two heavyweight kings will meet for a third world title showdown as undefeated WBC world champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury puts his title on the line against former longtime heavyweight champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder Saturday, July 24 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The resumption of
Ricky Hatton explains how Tyson Fury turned his life around training at his gym, to facing Deontay Wilder and then becoming heavyweight world champion again. Watch #FuryWilder3 exclusively live on BT Sport Box Office on October 9. Subscribe to BT Sport Boxing on YouTube ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/btsportboxing Follow BT Sport Boxing on Twitter ➡️ http://twitter.com/btsportboxing Join
History • Issue • Premium Frankie Lucas and Carl Speare had an amateur rivalry with zest and needle ON May 4 1973 Frankie Lucas of the Croydon-based Sir Philip Game ABC beat Carl Speare of Liverpool in that year’s ABA middleweight final at the Empire Pool, Wembley. This was Lucas’ second straight ABA championship victory,
In a conversation with Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV, boxing analyst Timothy Bradley gives his take on the undisputed super middleweight unification between Canelo Alvarez and Caleb Plant. Bradley isn’t giving much of a chance to Plant in this fight, and says what we’ve been hearing all over the boxing world — that David
The president of the World Boxing Council (WBC), Mauricio Sulaiman, have high praise to the recent victory Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk, who last Saturday night, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, captured four heavyweight belts with a twelve round unanimous decision over Anthony Joshua. Usyk walked away with the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO world titles. A few days
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Hans Themistode A Canelo Alvarez win has essentially become a formality in the eyes of Timothy Bradley. The former two-division champion turned ESPN commentator will certainly tune in on November 6th, when Alvarez takes on IBF super middleweight champion, Caleb Plant. Although Bradley respects the 29-year-old wholeheartedly, he simply doesn’t see
Sep 29, 2021 Tyson Fury will defend the WBC heavyweight championship against Deontay Wilder on Oct. 9 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN+ PPV). Their third fight is almost three years in the making, and along the way, their teams, other fighters and the legal system have all played a part.
Tyson Fury hasn’t completely dismissed Deontay Wilder’s ability to alter his style somewhat for their third fight. Fury, after all, drastically changed his own outlook in a relatively short time prior to their rematch in February 2020. Javan “SugarHill” Steward radically changed Fury’s approach before Fury fought Wilder a second time, when the huge heavyweight
Posted on 10/01/2021 By: Sean Crose “He lost to an amazing fighter,” former supermiddleweight titlist Carl Froch told iFL TV after witnessing Oleksandr Usyk’s impressive win over heavyweight multi-titlist Anthony Joshua last weekend, “probably one of the best southpaws operators of all time.” While there’s few if any who are willing to argue that Usyk
8:00 AM ET Jake Paul is expanding his footprint in the boxing world by signing one of its top female fighters. Most Valuable Promotions has signed Amanda Serrano, one of the best women’s fighters in the history of boxing, to a promotional deal, Paul and Serrano told ESPN. Paul, the YouTube-star-turned-prizefighter, and his adviser, Nakisa