Emmanuel Rodriguez and Vincent Astrolabio are set to compete for a bantamweight title. Just not the same title—nor any longer versus one another. BoxingScene.com has learned that talks for the previously ordered Rodriguez-Astrolabio vacant IBF bantamweight title fight have been abandoned. The sanctioning body has now ordered a new fight between Puerto Rico’s Rodriguez and Miami’s Melvin Lopez, who enters ...
Italian boxer Daniele Scardina, according to reports by the Italian press, is said to be in serious condition after suffering a head injury after a sparring session earlier today (February 28). Scardina (20-1) was in training to make his debut at light heavyweight, scheduled for March 24 in Milano against Belgian Cedric Spera (17-9). It was in training this afternoon ...
Bellator president Scott Coker was in understandably positive mood when he met with the media after Bellator 291 in Dublin. The promotion enjoyed another big night in the Irish capital, with the biggest story of the night undoubtedly the return of welterweight champion Yaroslav Amosov, who came back to the Bellator cage after 20 months – including a year on ...
Czech-Slovak MMA promotion Oktagon MMA has made great strides over the past year as it has established itself as one of the newest, dynamic fight promotions in Europe. Now the organization is set to launch its most ambitious project yet. Oktagon 40 takes place on Saturday, March 4 in Ostrava, Czech Republic, with a stacked card featuring some of the ...
They say styles make fights, and England’s Michael “Venom” Page faces a real clash of fighting philosophies when he looks to bounce back into the win column against Brazilian contender Goiti Yamauchi at Bellator 292. Page came agonizingly close to winning championship gold at Bellator 281 in May 2022, but his split-decision loss to Logan Storley in their interim title ...
The lone remaining junior flyweight titlist without a scheduled fight now has his marching orders. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the IBF has ordered a Sivenathi Nontshinga-Regie Suganob mandatory junior flyweight title fight. The two sides are granted a free negotiation period before the matter is presented to a purse bid hearing. South Africa’s Nontshinga is the reigning titlist and represented ...
Sandy Ryan will clash with Marie-Pier Houle for the vacant WBO Welterweight Title on the undercard of Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov vs. Joe Cordina at the Cardiff International Arena on Saturday April 22, live worldwide on DAZN (excluding Australia and New Zealand). Derby's Ryan (5-1, 2 KOs) was last in action at Wembley's OVO Arena last November, outpointing Argentina's Anahi Ester Sanchez ...
Gervonta Davis did his best to ignore the perpetual callouts of Ryan Garcia. But after antagonizing his man to no end, the hard-hitting star out of Baltimore, Maryland, decided to take the 24-year-old up on his offer. Announced last week, the two will square off in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View on April 22nd, in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
Deontay Wilder is in a mood to wheel and deal. The former heavyweight titlist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, recently told an outlet that he is now in talks with former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou about making a “two-fight deal.” Last month, Wilder expressed his enthusiasm for a couple of crossover fights—one using boxing rules, the other mixed martial arts—with Ngannou, ...
We all knew it was coming, right? Outside of delusional sycophants who’d convinced themselves Jake Paul would actually become a world champion – and with all due respect to the seriousness he displayed in fight preparation – the rest of us pretty much conceded he’d eventually bite off more than he could chew. Or he’d slap around a few more ...