WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has vowed to step away from social media and dig deep into training camp for a planned unification fight with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk. The two sides are targeting a date of April 29 at Wembley Stadium in London. Over the last few days, the two sides have been trading harsh words ...
Canelo Alvarez would’ve made more money if he agreed to fight John Ryder in England, Las Vegas, Los Angeles or somewhere in the Middle East. Those were the options promoter Eddie Hearn mentioned during their press conference Tuesday in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alvarez’s hometown. Alvarez and Eddy Reynoso, his trainer/manager, insisted, though, that his next fight take place in his home ...
Saul Canelo Alvarez will defend his Undisputed Super-Middleweight title against John Ryder at the Akron Stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico on Saturday May 6, live around the world on DAZN and DAZN PPV in the U.S & Canada – the first time in over a eleven and a half years that Canelo has fought in Mexico. (photos by Melina Pizano) Canelo ...
The IBF has decided that more than enough time has passed in a flyweight title eliminator ordered more than two months ago. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the IBF has assigned a March 23 purse bid for the Cristofer Rosales-Felix Alvarado flyweight title eliminator. The all-Nicaragua clash was originally ordered on January 12 and which was supposed to carry a 15-day ...
U.S. Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. has been forced to withdraw from his March 25 homecoming fight due to a training injury. Torrez (5-0, 5 KOs), from Tulare, California, was scheduled to face Willie Jake Jr. in the six-round ESPN-televised opener at Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. The 23-year-old southpaw knockout artist, who has three first-round knockouts on ...
Three world title defenses and a sparkling undefeated record convinced Caleb Plant that he was the best super middleweight around. His bravado and inordinate amount of self-belief, however, did little to help him during his undisputed clash against Canelo Alvarez. With all of the super middleweight marbles pushed to the center of the table, the fleet-of-foot former titilist would come ...
The choice ultimately became an easy one for Michael Zerafa. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the Australian middleweight contender has abandoned his role in the previously ordered IBF vacant title fight versus Brazil's Esquiva Falcao. The development comes just as the WBA ordered its middleweight titlist, Erislandy Lara to next defend versus Zerafa as his mandatory challenger and as the IBF ...
The General Secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control admits he is ‘concerned’ by the rise of Misfits Boxing. And Robert Smith has also revealed he is hoping to secure a meeting with leaders of the spin-off product to ensure the safety of the combatants. Misfits is the wildly popular crossover boxing series founded by Youtuber-turned boxer KSI, who ...
Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is still eager to push ahead with his ambition of having a boxing match with a top-rated pugilist. The man Ngannou wants to face is former WBC world champion Deontay Wilder. Ngannou, 36-years-old, has already revealed in a recent interview that he's been talking with Wilder's team about a potential fight. According to Ngannou, ...
This past Friday at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA on Thompson Boxing’s “Path To Glory” card, a special memorial to Ken Thompson was presented as the night was filled with many family and friends who attended and showed their respects. In the 8-round main event, Angel Beltran (16-1, 9 KOs) defeated Louie Lopez (13-2-1, 4 KOs) by way of ...