Month: November 2022

British junior welterweight champion Dalton Smith is motivated to work his way up to the top fighters in his weight class. This past weekend at the Manchester Arena, Smith won a unanimous decision in his mandatory defense against Kaisee Benjamin. Smith is now hoping to get bigger challenges in the coming year. "I'm probably in one of the hardest divisions ...

WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu believes that he would have toppled Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - if the fight actually came off as initially speculated. At the WBC's 2021 convention, Canelo's handlers made a shocking request to secure permission for a fight with Makabu for his cruiserweight title. The unexpected request even caught Makabu by surprise. Canelo, who captured ...

Although his return was highly anticipated, countless notable names around the boxing world were wholeheartedly unimpressed with Vasiliy Lomachenko’s recent outing. After a near one-year hiatus on the sidelines due to the ongoing Russian invasion in his native land of Ukraine, the 34-year-old attempted to return to the lightweight division’s elite by registering a victory over highly ranked contender, Jamaine ...

Some fighters go into every battle knowing that skill, guile, and toughness are their weapons because, once the first bell sounds, they’re almost certain to have to hear the bell sounding at the end of the twelfth to secure victory. IBF flyweight titlist Sunny Edwards is one of those guys. Edwards has only four knockouts in nineteen starts and that ...

Rolando Romero Video Interview - Video By Ryan Burton - Las Vegas, Nevada - For the WBO middleweight title, Janibek Alimkhanuly (13-0, 8 KOs) won a twelve round unanimous decision over Denzel Bentley (17-2-1, 14 KOs). Functional Cookies DisabledIn order to view this content you need to enable Functional Cookies by clicking on “Manage Cookies” The scores were 116-112, 116-112 ...

37-year-old light heavyweight Igor Mikhalkin celebrated his biggest and most important victory in the last four years on Saturday evening. In Moscow, Mikhalkin stepped into the ring against favorite Dilmurod Satybaldiev in a ten round bout – and won a convincing unanimous decision. Mikhalkin was booked for the fight on short notice and jumped in without hesitation. With only two ...

Pearl Concert Theater at Palms Casino Resort - After more than 300 days away from the ring, Seniesa "Super Bad" Estrada made her triumphant ring return, defending her WBA minimumweight world title with a one-sided decision over Argentina's Jazmin Gala Villarino. All three judges had the bout a shutout, 100-90, and Estrada outlanded her foe, 210-121. On Saturday night, Estrada ...

Nothing Jake Paul witnessed from ringside Sunday night made him believe Tommy Fury has any chance to beat him. Paul provided scathing commentary throughout Fury’s nondescript six-round exhibition against late replacement Rolly Lambert on the Floyd Mayweather-Deji pay-per-view undercard at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. Fury mostly jabbed and moved away from Lambert throughout a largely boring bout for which a ...

Eddie Hearn evidently believes the scuttled, star-crossed fight between his embattled charge Conor Benn and Chris Eubank Jr. is still salvageable. Benn and Eubank were slated to face each other last month in an intriguing 157-pound catchweight bout that had drawn large interest from the British sporting public because their fathers produced the country’s most fearsome boxing rivalry in the ...

Controversy reigned in Cleveland as Montana Love was disqualified after Steve Spark was tossed over the ropes in a clinch in the sixth round – Spark picking up the WBA Intercontinental super lightweight title in the process. The fight was building into a cracker through six rounds, with drama in the second round as a Spark attack stunned Love who ...