Month: April 2022

Savannah Marshall thinks Claressa Shields promises too much, delivers too little. Marshall, the WBO women’s middleweight titlist from Newcastle, England, has been on a collision course with Flint, Michigan’s Shields, who holds the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles, for the past couple of years. The two signed deals with British broadcaster Sky last year with the idea that they would ...

Joe Joyce has accused his friend turned rival, Anthony Joshua, of leaking out an edited version of their past sparring session. He feels the footage was edited to showcase Joshua's best moments during the session. The two heavyweights are very familiar with each other from their days as amateurs under Team GB. Now that both are in the pro ranks, ...

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman has vowed to continue to take people at face value after he was pictured with influential boxing advisor Daniel Kinahan in Dubai. Sulaiman was photographed with Kinahan and boxing promoter Ahmet Oner recently and said he has no interest in the Irishman’s background and alleged links to organized crime. Kinahan has long been declared a “person ...

Two of Germany’s boxing stars, world ranked Denis Radovan (15-0-1, 7 KOs) and former two-weight World Champion Christina Hammer (27-1, 13 KOs), will headline a night of action at the Sartory-Saal in Cologne on Saturday April 30 promoted by Wasserman Boxing and Probellum. “Together with our partners we have set out to rejuvenate German boxing and this is already our ...

Sandor Martin continues to ride high off his career-best win. The streaking contender from Barcelona enjoyed a hero’s welcome home in the form of a dominant, ten-round win over Jose Felix in their junior welterweight bout Friday evening from Palau Olímpic Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain. Judges Luigi Boscarelli (100-90), Karoline Outz (99-91) and Salvador Salva (100-90) all scored in ...

Josh Warrington admits that a summer fight with Leigh Wood looks unlikely now as he recovers from a broken jaw.  Warrington suffered the injury moments before his seventh-round stoppage of Kiko Martinez to regain his IBF featherweight title last weekend.  But, as well as a liquid diet, Warrington is not allowed to go to the gym for six weeks, which ...

Former world champion Jessie Magdaleno (28-1) plans on returning to the ring after a nearly two-year inactive streak in the very near future. The Top Rank promoted fighter last fought in June, 2020 when he defeated Yenifel Vicente via disqualification.  The Las Vegas native recently signed a managerial contract with Hector Fernandez de Cordova’s Ferco Box and is looking to ...

Pick It: TBRB #7 Sandor Martin vs. Jose Felix (Friday, DAZN, 1:30 PM EST) April 9th is one of the biggest days on the boxing calendar this year so far. Before we get there, we have one of those calm before the storm weeks. In Jr. welterweight action, fans can ask whether the winner of arguably 2021’s biggest upset is ...

Lou DiBella applauded his lightweight champion, George Kambosos Jr., first and foremost. Kambosos’ ambition is the primary reason DiBella initially made a deal with Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. for the undefeated, unified 135-pound champion to battle Vasiliy Lomachenko on June 5 at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne, Australia. Then it was Kambosos’ insistence on replacing Lomachenko with Haney that initiated ...

Canelo Alvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol takes place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 7, live on DAZN, excluding Latin America and Mexico. The event will be offered exclusively on DAZN Pay-Per View (PPV). (photos by Melina Pizano) Canelo (57-1-2, 39 KOs) returns to Las Vegas for his first Cinco De Mayo fight since 2019 where he defeated ...