Month: April 2022

Andrew Moloney continues to hunt for a major title in the lucrative junior bantamweight division. The former secondary WBA titlist has drawn motivation from a recently ordered title fight ahead of his own ring appearance this weekend. Australia’s Moloney returns this Saturday in the opening bout of an ESPN tripleheader from The OC Hangar in Costa Mesa, California. The fight ...

Cuban boxers can now turn pro without having to flee their homeland. An agreement was reached by the Federacion Cubano de Boxeo (FCB) to allow pro boxing for the first time in sixty years. The historic decision was made public on Monday, with the intention of allowing its most notable amateur stars to turn pro as early as May in ...

Juan Francisco Estrada and Joshua Franco remain no closer to a head-on collision than was the case when they were ordered to fight two months ago. The World Boxing Association (WBA) has stepped into help move things along, as the sanctioning body has formally called a purse bid hearing for their junior bantamweight title fight. “Please be kindly advised that ...

Gennadiy "GGG" Golovkin (41-1-1, 36 KOs), from Karaganda, Kazakhstan, brought the Big Drama Show and his IBF and IBO world titles to Japan last week.   Golovkin has crossed the U.S. and the Pacific Ocean to face two-time WBA middleweight champion and Japan's national hero Ryota Murata (16-2, 13 KOs) in a long-awaited world title unification fight.   Promoted by ...

Triller Fight Club announced that heavyweight contender Jerry ‘The Slugger’ Forrest, (26-4-2, 20 KOs), of Newport News, VA will now face two-time world title challenger Kubrat ‘The Cobra’ Pulev (28-2 14 KOs), over ten rounds at the ‘Lineage of Greatness’ event set for Saturday, May 14 at the Forum in Los Angeles. Forrest replaces Andrey Fedesov who was previously scheduled ...

Former WBO Asia Pacific Youth light flyweight champion and world title contender Vince Paras (16-2) will headline the ninth episode of Sanman’s Bubble Series. Paras will face WBO Asia Pacific minimumweight champion and world title contender Robert Paradero (18-2) in a ten round bout. The fight will take place on April 26 at the Sanman Gym in Gensan. The supporting ...

Errol Spence remains unbothered by losing out on a dream fight. A retinal detachment in his left eye discovered during a pre-fight medical examination forced the unbeaten IBF/WBC welterweight champion out of a planned superfight with former eight-division titlist Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39KOs). The bout was to have topped an August 21 Fox Sports Pay-Per-View event from T-Mobile Arena in ...

Ryan Garcia always knew how to use social media to his advantage. What he shows to his legion of followers, however, is rarely what he intends to apply to any given fight. “I don’t show anybody what I’m working on,” Garcia insisted during a recent open workout ahead of his April 9 DAZN headliner versus Ghana’s Emmanuel Tagoe. “I just ...

Shakur Stevenson is confident that his good friend, WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford, would topple WBC, WBA, IBF junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo. Crawford, currently a promotional free agent, is eager to secure a unification showdown at 147-pounds. He hopes to land the winner of the upcoming fight between Errol Spence and Yordenis Ugas, who battle for the WBA, IBF, ...

The homecoming king put on a royal performance Saturday at the Connecticut Convention Center. Headlining a long day of amateur and professional boxing in front his hometown fans for the first time, unbeaten Hartford super lightweight Mykquan Williams (17-0-1) earned his eighth career knockout win by defeating New Jersey’s Tyrone Luckey (15-17-4) via fifth-round stoppage. The event, promoted by CES ...