Year: 2020

IBF cruiserweight champion Yuniel Dorticos (24-1, 22 KOs) is a very patient man. Dorticos saw two fight dates, March 21 and May 16, get canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. He was scheduled to face Mairis Briedis, in Riga, in the final bout of the World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight tournament. Their fight was initially targeted for December of last year. Because of ...

Fights involving former world titleholders Jessie Magdaleno and Jose Pedraza are on tap for June cards that Top Rank is in the process of putting together as it plans to bring boxing back with no spectators due to the coronavirus pandemic. Top Rank’s first show is tentatively due to take place June 9 at an MGM property in Las Vegas, ...

Liam Smith believes Saul Alvarez’s team attempted to embarrass his brother. The former WBO super-welterweight world champion was stopped by ‘Canelo’ back in September 2017 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. But Smith says that his brother, Callum, was the subject of a poor negotiation tactic from the Mexican’s team as he chased the mega-fight as a defence of ...

Daniel Jacobs has altered his rankings of super middleweight champions. After more consideration, the former IBF/WBA middleweight champ has listed WBO title-holder Billy Joe Saunders last among boxing’s four super middleweight champions. Jacobs initially called Caleb Plant the most beatable of those four champions during an Instagram Live interview with promoter Eddie Hearn late in March. The unbeaten Plant, who ...

In a recent interview with Yahoo Sports, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya revealed that he received threats from a Mexican drug trafficker prior to his fight with Julio Cesar Chavez. In 1996, De La Hoya defeated Chávez in just four rounds and captured the World Boxing Council (WBC) junior welterweight title. The victory was historic for De La Hoya, but it earned him ...

Fifteen years after he last fought, and upwards of thirty years after he was last considered the best heavyweight in the world, Mike Tyson still has some people convinced that he can come back and beat up the current crop of heavyweight contenders. Some combination of Tyson being in visually good shape again, quarantine boredom and a lack of other ...

Former WBC world light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk hopes to work his way to a rematch with the division’s unified champion Artur Beterbiev. The two fighters, both unbeaten at the time, collided back in October in a WBC, IBF unification. Beterbiev raised his perfect record o 15-0 with all 15 wins by knockout, after he dropped Gvozdyk three times in ...

Four-time heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield was an undersized fighter who beat some of the sport’s all time greats in boxing’s glamour division. “The Real Deal” believes he would have a real chance against any heavyweight in history. “I was a boxer, and because I knew how to box real well, I could adapt to different styles. I could have fought ...

The patience of Teofimo Lopez is already wearing thin. Two months’ worth of downtime in the sport has managed to produce a record amount of social media bravery from boxers willing to take on all comers. The comments are easy to make when there aren’t any fights happening, but the unbeaten lightweight titlist is working on making that a reality. ...

The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen "Breadman" Edwards, as he presents a special edition with breaking down his personal top 10 list... for the greatest fighters of all-time. Your views and opinions on boxing history are highly respected.  So I’ll keep this simple, what is your all time great top 10. I know this is always subjective, but your reasons ...