Amir Khan appears to have no intention of calling it a career, according to his promoter Ben Shalom. Khan, the former junior welterweight titlist, seemed to have one foot out of the ring following his sixth-round stoppage loss to long-sworn rival Kell Brook on Feb. 19 at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. The fight was billed as a coin-flip affair, ...
The tension is heating up between British heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Joe Joyce. The two large heavyweights are very familiar with each other - with the two boxers knowing each other from their amateur days as members of Team GB. Joshua captured a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic games, while Joyce picked up a silver medal at the 2016 ...
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It’s not your father’s boxing schedule. While stars like Canelo Alvarez are still preeminent in the ways they've been for several years, much of the chatter around the sport these days is generated by the prospect of fighters from other combative strains making a crossover to the ring, or in the case of Jake Paul, from the world of social ...
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Promoter Eddie Hearn is planning to pursue a flyweight unification clash between world champions Julio Cesar Martinez and Sunny Edwards. Before that scenario can be explored, both boxers will have to win their upcoming defenses. Edwards is back on March 19, when he makes a voluntary defense of his IBF title against Muhammad Waseem in Dubai. And Martinez is slated ...
This past Saturday, lightweight contender, Miguel “El Explosivo” Madueno (27-1, 25 KOs), suffered his first loss as a professional, losing a unanimous decision to former world champion, Jezzrel Corrales (26-4, 10 KOs), in WBA lightweight title elimination bout. In what was considered an ugly bout, both fighters were deducted a point in round three for dirty fighting. Corrales was deducted ...
WBO/IBF unified junior lightweight world champion Mikaela Mayer hasn’t fought in front of a hometown crowd in four years, but that all changes Saturday, April 9, as SoCal’s Olympic amateur star defends her titles against former world champion Jennifer Han at The Hangar at the Orange County Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, California. In the co-feature, San Diego’s ...
The more time Vasiliy Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk spend away from the ring to defend their country, the more it hurts boxing culture. That was the substance of promoter Bob Arum’s message in a recent video put out by his promotional company, Top Rank Inc. Both Lomachenko and Usyk have put their boxing careers on hold in order to focus ...
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It won’t be long before Jake Paul dons a pair of boxing gloves again. The controversial content creator-boxer explicitly stated that he would not be fighting in the first half of the year in order to focus on promoting the upcoming women’s undisputed lightweight title bout between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, whom Paul manages. The fight is scheduled to ...
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Trevor Bryan and Daniel Dubois will have to wait another week to learn their heavyweight fate. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that a purse bid hearing to determine promotional rights for the secondary WBA heavyweight title fight has been postponed to March 21. The hearing was originally due to take place March 14 but was pushed back by one week after “different ...
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David Benavidez and his team now claim there is no path to a fight with Caleb Plant in September. They are not wrong about that, though not for the suggested reasons. BoxingScene.com has learned that a deal has been reached between Plant and Anthony Dirrell in what would be a matchup of former super middleweight titlists. A target date has ...