Month: March 2022

It wasn’t that long ago that there was beginning to be an argument that Leeds’ 31-year old Josh Warrington (30-1-1, 7 KO) might be the emerging leader at featherweight. After winning the IBF belt in 2018 with a spirited decision over Lee Selby, Warrington managed three defenses including an impressive outing against former titlist Carl Frampton and a close one ...

The brackets are set, and Team USA now knows their potential path to stand atop the medal podium in Guayaquil, Ecuador at the 2022 AMBC Elite Championships, as competition begins tomorrow.  2021 Elite Men’s World Champion Jahmal Harvey (Oxon Hill, Md.) will be the first American to take to the ring, as he will face Mexico’s Miguel Fernando Vega Barreras ...

Eddie Hearn is working to ensure that Canelo Alvarez’s potential third fight this year will involve one of his fighters. The promoter of Matchroom Boxing said Alvarez had requested that he look into a potential opponent for a fight date in December. Alvarez is currently signed to a two-fight deal with Hearn and DAZN, Hearn’s streaming partner, that will see ...

Former WBC flyweight world champion Charlie Edwards wants to make British boxing history by joining his brother Sunny as a reigning world champion. The 29-year-old signed a promotional deal with Probellum and firmly set his sights on winning a world crown at a new weight. “I’ve been a world champion but now I am focused on creating history and leaving ...

The Alamodome on April 9 will be a night full of exciting action as popular fighters make their grand return to the ring for the first time in 2022. Houston’s Marlen Esparza (11-1, 1 KOs) will take on Tokyo’s Naoko Fujioka (19-2-1, 17 KOs) in a 10-round fight in a showdown for the WBC and WBA flyweight world championships. The ...

Ryan Garcia may not have had a fight in over a year, but the prolonged layoff clearly hasn’t affected his boldness. The hard hitting lightweight contender recently called out former undisputed lightweight champion Vasiliy Lomachenko during an interview on the Boxing with Chris Mannix podcast. Garcia has been out of action since January 2020, when he stopped Luke Campbell in ...

OUR HEADLINERS APPLIED a quick and spectacular finish to the show at Wembley on Saturday, while there were also plenty of star turns amongst the supporting cast. Both David Avanesyan and Hamzah Sheeraz made short work of their opponents – who both came to fight – and issued major statements of intent ahead of their next challenges. For David, his ...

Back in Espirito Santo, Brazil, Touro Moreno thought he had a couple mixed martial arts fighters in his home in the form of sons Yamaguchi and Esquiva Falcao. But from an early age, it was clear that boxing was where they were headed. “My father fought, and at the beginning of training at home when I was a child, he ...

Rolando Romero was confident he would withstand the most trying time of his life because he was certain the truth was on his side. Romero informed Brian Custer during the newest episode of the Showtime broadcaster’s podcast that he believes money motivated “an evil person” to file a police report against him late in October in Henderson, Nevada. Police detectives ...

Another ordered fight, another set of stalled talks for Janibek Alimkhanuly. A purse bid hearing has been called to determine promotional rights for the WBO-ordered interim middleweight title fight between Alimkhanuly and Danny Dignum. The ten-day negotiation period failed to produce a deal between the unbeaten contenders, prompting the WBO to schedule a purse bid for March 28 at its ...