Month: November 2022

Vasiliy Lomachenko and Jamaine Ortiz engaged in an entertaining battle late last month in New York City.  The 26-year-old American started off fast while the former three-division champion closed the show strong.  The final scores were 115-113, 116-112 and a head scratching 117-111 for Lomachenko.  Rising lightweight contender Michel Rivera predicted a close fight in an interview with BoxingScene.com and ...

Sunny Edwards says he is sick of being avoided but admits he cannot afford to take Felix Alvarado lightly if his hopes of a stellar 2023 are to be realized. Edwards makes the third defense of his IBF flyweight title against Alvarado, the former IBF light-flyweight champion, in Sheffield on Friday. The 33-year-old Nicaraguan has not been beaten in eight ...

Teofimo Lopez and Sandor Martin might fight after all. The WBC ordered Lopez-Martin as a final elimination match Wednesday during that sanctioning organization’s annual convention for an eventual shot at its vacant super lightweight title. Powerful southpaws Regis Prograis and Jose Zepeda will fight for the WBC’s unclaimed 140-pound championship November 26 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. ...

Opposing business interests could prevent Shakur Stevenson and Isaac Cruz from fighting at any point in the near future. Those two lightweight contenders are represented by competing promoters and appear on different networks, but that didn’t stop the WBC from ordering a final elimination match Wednesday between Stevenson and Cruz. Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC, announced during the sanctioning ...

David Benavidez’s promoter prodded WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman until he got the definitive answer he sought Wednesday at the sanctioning organization’s convention in Acapulco, Mexico. Sulaiman ultimately confirmed to Sampson Lewkowicz, whose company promotes Benavidez, that the winner of the upcoming battle between Benavidez and Caleb Plant will be named the mandatory challenger for Canelo Alvarez’s WBC super middleweight title. ...

The WBC ordered a final eliminator between two former heavyweight champions Wednesday. Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the WBC, stated during the sanctioning organization’s convention in Acapulco, Mexico that Deontay Wilder and Andy Ruiz must meet next to determine the mandatory challenger for its heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury. Premier Boxing Champions founder Al Haymon has been building toward matching Wilder against ...

Oscar Valdez and Emanuel Navarrete have been instructed to begin talks for a fight that already appears to be a done deal. The WBO has formally ordered a vacant junior lightweight title fight between Valdez and Navarrete, with the two sides given until November 19 to reach terms. The order is an extension of a ruling confirmed in late October ...

While he enjoyed his time as a world champion at 160-pounds, Demetrius Andrade’s time near the top of the middleweight mountain had essentially come to an end. Though he could have opted to defend his middleweight crown against mandatory contender Janibek Alimkhanuly, the 34-year-old realized that from a financial standpoint, facing the young and hungry Kazakhstan star wasn't in his ...

Richard Schaefer rates Sunny Edwards as one of the top five boxers in the world for pure skill. Probellum President Schaefer has delivered the headline-making verdict in the week Edwards defends his IBF world flyweight title against Felix Alvarado.  The unbeaten Edwards – known as ‘Showtime’ – faces the most dangerous fight of his career against Alvarado on Friday night ...

Vergil Ortiz Jr. is covering all bases to ensure that his next fight is a title eliminator or better. A request by Golden Boy Promotions vice president and executive matchmaker Roberto Diaz on behalf of Ortiz called for the WBC to order a final elimination bout between the unbeaten welterweight contender and former unified titlist Keith Thurman. The proposal was ...