Brett Okamoto, ESPN Staff WriterJul 7, 2024, 10:21 AM ET Close MMA columnist for ESPN.com Analyst for “MMA Live” Covered MMA for Las Vegas Sun Open Extended Reactions It took almost five years, but Nate Diaz finally got his revenge over Jorge Masvidal in a professional boxing ring Saturday. Diaz defeated Masvidal by majority decision
Fernando Martinez unified a pair of super flyweight titles today in Japan, beating Kazuto Ioka by decision over 12 rounds. Scores for the fight were 116-112, 117-111, and 120-108 for Argentina’s Martinez, with the shutout card from Eddie Hernandez receiving heavy criticism. Martinez picked up the IBF title from Ioka, adding to the WBA belt
Fernando Martinez has added the WBA title to his IBF super flyweight crown with a huge victory in Japan over the favored veteran Kazuto Ioka. The Argentine won a superb fight, at the Kokugikan Arena in Tokyo, by margins of 116-112, 117-111 and an off-base 120-108 in Tokyo. Showing courage and using volume, Martinez was
Mike Coppinger, ESPN Boxing InsiderJul 7, 2024, 02:35 AM 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 Shakur Stevenson captured Olympic silver at the 2016 Games in Rio
FERNANDO Martinez is now the unified WBA and IBF super-flyweight titleholder following a thrilling war of attrition in Tokyo, Japan. The scores were announced as 116-112, 117-111 and 120-108, crowning Martinez the winner by unanimous decision. It was an outstanding 115-pound battle between two great fighters, befitting of a unification bout. The 120-108 card posted
Nate Diaz got some measure of revenge against Jorge Masvidal tonight, winning a majority decision in their 10-round boxing rematch of their 2019 UFC fight. One judge had the fight even at 95-95, which was overruled by two scores in Diaz’s favor of 97-93 and 98-92. Diaz, who is now 1-1 in boxing after losing
THE thing that makes boxing such a compelling and unpredictable sport is also the very thing that makes it such a confusing and, at times, unnecessarily complicated sport. Every win ultimately carries the same value, yet there are so many ways for a boxer to win, and some wins, by their nature, feel more like
WILLIAM Zepeda knocked out Giovanni Cabrera in round three at the Toyota Arena, Ontario, last night. Awkward in his style and stance, wiry left-hander Cabrera enjoyed an excellent opening round, landing left hands and right hooks to keep Zepeda off balance. Trained by Freddie Roach, Cabrera lowered Zepeda’s relentless punch output until midway through the
Super middleweight Shane Mosley Jr. recorded the biggest win of his career by defeating former titleholder Daniel Jacobs in the co-feature of the Nate Diaz-Jorge Masvidal pay-per-view card Saturday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. Mosley won a 10-round unanimous decision with scores of 99-91, 99-91 and 100-90 in a tactical battle. Mosley (22-4,
By: Sean Crose WBC lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson put his title, as well as his undefeated 21-0 record, on the line Saturday night in his native Newark, New Jersey as he took on the 12-1 Artem Harutyunyan. The fight was a scheduled 12 rounder and was the main event of an ESPN Top Rank card.
SHAKUR STEVENSON retained his WBC lightweight title at cruising speed against Artem Harutyunyan. The 27-year-old was a deserving winner on all three scorecards (119-109, 118-110, 116-112) against the outclassed Armeinian-born German who never got on the level of his American opponent. Stevenson, fighting at home inside Newark’s Prudential Centre, started the main event by spending
Johnny Fisher’s first main event was a rousing success, as the heavyweight prospect obliterated cult favorite Alen Babic in just . Fisher found a home for his right hand quickly — which is never too hard against Babic and his total indifference to defense — and it was game over pretty immediately. Babic might have
Even though negotiations between representatives for Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Vasiliy Lomachenko are in progress, Shakur Stevenson has an opportunity to interrupt the conversation. On Friday’s episode of ProBox TV’s “Deep Waters,” analyst and former welterweight world champion Shawn Porter said the unbeaten, three-division champion Stevenson (21-0, 10 KOs) can sharply raise the calls for
Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal fight again tonight, this time in a boxing ring, headlining a pay-per-view from Los Angeles. The show will start at 9 pm ET and we’ll be here with live updates throughout the evening. Diaz and Masvidal fought at UFC 244 back in 2019, with Masvidal scoring a third-round TKO on
JOHNNY Fisher weighed in around 25 pounds heavier than opponent Alen Babic yesterday afternoon. While, on paper, the pair appear to be two fairly evenly matched punchers, in reality, it feels like all-action Babic has found his boxing ceiling. Unbeaten Fisher, meanwhile, is still stretching up to find out the height of his own. “I’m
Paschal Collins revisited the most memorable of upsets in the heavyweight division as he prepares to guide Alen Babic against Johnny Fisher. Babic, 33 and from Croatia, is the underdog on Saturday evening against the popular Fisher at London’s Copper Box Arena, and largely because the bigger Fisher is perceived to be the more destructive
KEYSHAWN Davis continues his ascent towards world titles with a 10-round assignment against Miguel Madueño in Newark tonight. Sharing a card with Shakur Stevenson is all part of the big fight appeal for a young man closing in on the heavy hitters of 135 and surrounding areas. “It’s always special sharing a card with my
Despite previously floating the idea of giving Deontay Wilder a title shot, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman announced today that “bridgerweight” champion Lawrence Okolie has come to an agreement with interim champion Kevin Lerena for their ordered title consolidation. Lerena (30-3, 14 KO) is coming off a competitive decision loss to Justis Huni on the Anthony
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