Month: March 2022

NEW YORK – Quincy LaVallais views his fight against Xander Zayas as much more winnable than oddsmakers have suggested. DraftKings lists the unbeaten Zayas as a 30-1 favorite over LaVallais in advance of their eight-round junior middleweight match Saturday night. LaVallais considers Zayas more predictable than the outcome of their fight, which ESPN will televise as part of the Edgar ...

Gennadiy Golovkin will be paid handsomely if he and Canelo Alvarez handle their business in upcoming bouts and finally fight again September 17. Meanwhile, the longtime middleweight champion understandably still wants what he and his team contend he is owed from their second fight in September 2018. BoxingScene.com has learned that attorneys filed a lawsuit Friday on Golovkin’s behalf against ...

Alexis Rocha usually prefers to do his talking in the ring but made an exception for his next opponent. The normally reserved Rocha remains confident of conquering unbeaten and boisterous Blair ‘The Flair’ Cobbs in their makeshift DAZN main event this Saturday at USC Galen Center in Los Angeles. The fight was elevated from co-feature to headliner after Vergil Ortiz ...

THE 6ft 7" CRUISERWEIGHT prospect Tommy Fletcher is joining the professional ranks and has signed promotional terms with Frank Warren and Queensberry. The big-punching 20-year-old, who calls himself the 'Norfolk Nightmare', now trains with Mark Tibbs in Rainham, Essex having bludgeoned his way through his amateur experiences. He views Queensberry as the only place to be for top young prospects ...

Fight Academy will announce a new date and venue for Hannah Rankin's first defence of her WBA and IBO world titles against Mexico's Alejandra Ayala - which will be broadcast live by Fightzone. Scotland's first ever women's world champ - Rankin is one of the world’s premier female fighters.  A two-time and now double world title holder, the 31-year-old is ...

Tyrone McKenna is promising to pull off a big upset on Saturday night at Dubai’s Duty Free Tennis Stadium, when he faces former world champion Regis Prograis in a WBC junior welterweight eliminator. Prograis is a tremendous favorite, with his only defeat coming at the hands of Josh Taylor in a very close fight.  McKenna has never been stopped - ...

Top super welterweight contenders Erickson “Hammer” Lubin is looking for a statement making win, when he faces undefeated Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora. The two will collide for the interim-WBC junior middleweight title on Saturday, April 9, in a Premier Boxing Champions event from the Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. The 26-year-old Lubin (24-1, 17 KOs) has put together ...

Estelle Mossely registered her latest win in historic fashion. The performance itself was more of a learning lesson than a time-capsule moment, as France’s Mossely turned away a stiff challenge from Argentina’s Yanina del Carmen Lescano to claim a ten-round, split decision victory. Lescano won 96-94 on one scorecard, overruled by scores of 96-94 and 97-93 Mike Hayel in favor ...

IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin would embrace the scenario of once again fighting in the UK at some point. Golovkin fought on UK soil back in 2016. He was initially scheduled to face Chris Eubank Jr. - but their negotiations fell apart, with Eubank being replaced by then welterweight champion Kell Brook, who moved up by two weight classes. ...

Sunny Edwards aims to plead his case as the best flyweight in the world. The unbeaten Londoner is set for the second defense of his IBF flyweight title, as Edwards faces Pakistan’s Muhammad Waseem. Both fighters made weight for their scheduled 12-round fight, which headlines a Probellum card Saturday evening (local time) at Duty Free Tennis Stadium in Dubai, United ...