Month: June 2020

While Top Rank has made its first two cards on June 9 and June 11 official as it returns to doing live boxing events without crowds because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company is also busy putting together a slew of other fights for ESPN shows planned for the rest of June and July. One of those fights, which has ...

Starting in July, MTK Fight Night events are set to take place once a month for the foreseeable future and will be broadcast live on ESPN+ in association with Top Rank. Discussions are also currently ongoing with other broadcasters. Initial events will be held behind closed doors under the jurisdiction of the British Boxing Board of Control and will strictly ...

If Tyson Fury remains the WBC heavyweight champion and Dillian Whyte keeps winning, a Fury-Whyte fight must happen at some point. Whyte is the mandatory challenger for Fury’s title. Before the COVID-19 pandemic changed every boxer’s schedule, the WBC announced that Whyte would have to get that title shot by February 2021. Mauricio Sulaiman, the president of the WBC, told ...

Andre Ward was all of two years old at the time a teenaged Mike Tyson began his meteoric rise to heavyweight immortality. The legacy left behind by the one-time baddest man on the planet, however, is legendary enough for the former two-division world champion to have become well versed on the subject. “I was obviously a baby when Tyson was ...

There are nights in boxing, for the viewer, so vivid as to make every mention of them bring back a wave of emotion embedding them in the immediate. It feels like it just happened again because of the smile the memories bring to your face, or because the where you were when watching is instantly so vivid. For this author, ...