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Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is giving Andy Ruiz a good puncher's chance to defeat Deontay Wilder. The two former heavyweight champions are in line to face each other in the coming months, in what will be sanctioned as a final WBC world title eliminator. After suffering back to back knockout defeats at the hands of Tyson ...
When you come from Orange, Texas, you learn how to bounce back from even the worst disasters. The town that O’Shaquie Foster calls home has suffered its fair share of misfortune. During both World War I and II, thanks to its deep water port into the Gulf of Mexico, Orange became a hub for ship construction, nearly doubling its ...
Floyd Mayweather’s exhibition agenda may involve a mixed-martial-arts great. Moments after making his professional boxing debut, Jose Aldo, the former UFC featherweight champion, indicated Friday in Rio de Janeiro that he and Mayweather have agreed to face each other in an exhibition match later this year. “His side has already agreed, my side too,” Aldo told MMA Fighting. “We’re now ...
San Antonio, Texas - Trailing on two of the judges’ scorecards, Cuban heavyweight Lenier Peró stunned Ukraine’s Viktor Faust with a hard right to the body followed with a left hand that rendered Faust defenseless and out on his feet in the eighth round. Peró pounced on Faust and landed several more unanswered punches, causing referee Rafael Ramos to stop ...
Hall of Fame trainer Teddy Atlas is backing Jake Paul to come out on top in his upcoming fight with unbeaten light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury. Fury and Paul will finally collide on February 26 in Saudi Arabia. They were scheduled to collide on two occasions, with Fury being unable to move forward both times. Paul, a popular Youtuber who turned ...
Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas - Former champion and San Antonio-native Mario “El Azteca” Barrios snapped his two-fight losing streak with a razor sharp performance against Jovanie Santiago. Barrios dropped Santiago in the eighth round with a left to the body and followed up with a barrage of punches, causing referee Mark Calo-Oy, upon the request of Santiago’s corner, to ...
The 2022 IMMAF World Championships are officially underway. The exciting day of action saw junior and senior athletes from around the world make their way to the Stark Arena in Belgrade, Serbia for the opening day. 2021 lightweight gold medalist Kurban Idrisov enjoyed a successful return as he bids to become a two-time world champion. Wearing the gold kit, the ...
With the words “ice water” and “shock the world” etched on his trunks, O’Shaquie Foster produced the fight of his life, coolly and methodically out-boxing two-division world champion Rey Vargas to capture the vacant WBC super featherweight world championship in his first title shot live on Showtime Saturday, February 11 from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Foster, who normally ...
There will likely come tougher tests in the career of Lenier Pero. For now, he can take comfort in knowing he survived a potentially disastrous situation this early into his career. The unbeaten Cuban export overcame a rough end to the third round and a deficit on two of the three scorecards in his eighth-round stoppage of Ukraine’s Victor Faust. ...
San Antonio, Texas - In a crossroads welterweight clash, Mario Barrios (27-2, 18 KOs) broke down and stopped Jovanie Santiago (14-3-1, 10 KOs) in the eighth round. (photos by Amanda Westcott) Barrios was pressing and coming forward in the first two rounds, being aggressive and targeting both the head and body. In the third, Barrios was unloading with hard punches ...