Month: May 2020

Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down circulating reports that Deontay Wilder revealed that he wants a step-aside fee of $10 million - in order to move away from a contracted trilogy fight. Fury captured the WBC world title in February, when he stopped Wilder in the seventh round at the MGM Grand ...

Shannon Briggs says he has investors interested in making a boxing exhibition between him and Mike Tyson a reality. According to Briggs, the former heavyweight champions are committed to participating in an exhibition that would help raise money to fund a boxing gym in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Briggs, who has long cited Tyson as the inspiration to start ...

Jermell Charlo can’t see any reason why he should have to fight Erickson Lubin again. Charlo knocked out Lubin, his mandatory challenger, with one perfectly executed right hand in the first round of their fight for Charlo’s WBC super welterweight title in October 2017. Lubin is 4-0 since Charlo beat him, however, and is once again the WBC’s number one ...

Bahrain has emerged as a potential player in the big fight business after Daniel Kinahan, the co-founder of MTK Global, was announced as a special adviser to a group set up to bring combat sports to the oil-rich Middle East state. Kinahan, who lives in Dubai, has become a special adviser to KHK Sports, an organisation set up by Khalid ...

Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has given high praise to UFC superstar Conor McGregor for his boxing performance against Floyd Mayweather. McGregor made his boxing debut back in August of 2017, when he faced Mayweather in a junior middleweight contest at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. McGregor started well in the early rounds, before Mayweather began to break ...

The WBO super bantamweight world champion, Emanuel Navarrete, intensified his preparation before the possibility of returning to the ring in June and ruled out the view that fighting without an audience is something negative for him. In fact, he chooses to see it as a golden opportunity in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Navarrete is one of the fighters who have been ...

Eddie Hearn says he is planning to stage a series of fight nights in the garden of the house where he grew up in Essex. The Matchroom headquarters in Brentwood are in what used to be the home of Hearn’s father, Barry, the Matchroom founder, and is situated in 15 acres of grounds off a country lane. Hearn says he ...

Glover Teixeira bludgeons Anthony Smith en route to fifth-round TKO win Glover Teixeira turned back the clock as he put on one of his finest Octagon performances to defeat former UFC light heavywight title contender Anthony Smith in Jacksonville, Florida. The 40-year-old left Smith battered and bruised to earn a fifth-round TKO victory. Smith started the fight strongly, landing power ...

UFC President Dana White is eyeing up a lightweight title unification bout between champion Khabib Nurmagomedov and interim champion Justin Gaethje on Fight Island in the summer. Speaking to ESPN, White says he isn’t necessarily expecting the world to return to normal any time soon so would like to host the fights on Fight Island. “I don’t know if it ...

One of the most dominant champions in UFC history is set to be inducted in the promotion’s Hall of Fame later this year. At UFC 249, it was announced that former UFC welterweight and middleweight king Georges St-Pierre will be inducted into Modern Wing as part of the Hall of Fame class of 2020. The Modern Wing is for fighters ...