LOS ANGELES — Marco Antonio Barrera. Erik Morales. Juan Manuel Marquez. Oscar De La Hoya. Those were just some of the handful of Hall of Fame fighters that David Benavidez named off the top of his head as his favorite Mexican boxers. The 26-year-old knockout star has been fighting under the nickname “El Bandera Roja,’’ but in recent years, another ...
Undefeated two-division champion Rey Vargas and top 130-pound contender O’Shaquie Foster squared off and exchanged verbal barbs at Thursday’s final press conference before they meet for the vacant WBC Super Featherweight World Championship this Saturday, February 11 live on SHOWTIME from the Alamodome in San Antonio in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. (photos by Amanda Westcott) The back ...
UFC veteran Mike Perry explains that he will be more than ready to replace light heavyweight prospect Tommy Fury in a scheduled fight with Youtube star turned boxer Jake Paul. Fury is set to face Paul on February 26 in Saudi Arabia. When the event was first announced, it was revealed that Perry had been secured as a backup opponent ...
Four years after his last fight, light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk will be ducking through the ropes once again. The former 175-pound champion from Ukraine is coming out of retirement this Saturday to take on Argentina’s Jorge Daniel Miranda in a six-round light heavyweight bout at The Derby Room Pomona at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. “The Nail”, one of the top ...
Mikaela Mayer doesn’t get the sense that Eddie Hearn is willing to invest heavily in his undisputed female junior lightweight champion. Mayer, the former unified 130-pound champion from Woodland Hills, Calif., was perplexed by recent comments that Hearn made regarding a potential rematch between Mayer and Hearn’s client Alycia Baumgardner of Michigan, who became the fully unified 130-pound champion after ...
Islam Makhachev certainly isn’t easing himself into life as the undisputed UFC lightweight champion. Rather than contenting himself with a title defense against a top 155-pound contender, the newly-crowned champion has bigger goals in his sights. Makhachev will welcome the challenge of the UFC’s pound-for-pound number-one fighter and current UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski in the main event of UFC ...
Craig Richards will face Ricards Bolotniks for the WBA Intercontinental Light-Heavyweight Title and EBU European Middleweight Champion Matteo Signani will defend his belt against Felix Cash at The O2 in London on Saturday April 1, live worldwide on DAZN. Richards (17-3-1, 10 KOs) was originally scheduled to face Bolotniks (19-6-1, 8 KOs) on the undercard of Dillian Whyte’s close points ...
Alexander Volkanovski thinks that talent and skills alone won’t be enough to dethrone UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev at UFC 284, but says he has the key attribute needed to get the job done. UFC featherweight king Volkanovski is moving up to 155 pounds to challenge newly-crowned lightweight champion Makhachev in the main event in Perth, Australia. It’s a bout ...
Hall of Fame fighter turned coach Erik Morales is adamant that the pupil he trains can beat the brakes off another future Canastota-bound boxer. “Jaime [Munguia] is a young fighter who is pushing hard, and I can’t see why we couldn’t win [against Gennadiy Golovkin],” Erik Morales told IZQUIERDAZO. “And I dare to say that [Munguia] would knock him out. ...
Super featherweight prospect, Marlin Sims (8-1, 4 KOs) of Minneapolis, MN, has one thing on his mind and that is upset George “El Yuyu” Acosta (13-1, 1 KO), of Whittier, Ca, in their 8-round main event bout headlining Thompson Boxing’s “New Blood” card. “New Blood” will take place at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA on Friday, February 10. Here ...