Popular undefeated hometown favorite Tim Tszyu dominated former world champion Tony Harrison with a ninth-round TKO to win the Interim WBO super welterweight title Sunday, before 11,740 rabid pro-Tszyu fans at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. Showtime televised the fight in the United States. With the win Tszyu became the mandatory challenger to undisputed super welterweight king Jermell Charlo. ...
Junior welterweights Joseph Fernandez and Marqus Bates will have a career-changing opportunity when they meet in a ten round contest for the vacant NABA title Saturday, April 29 at the Hilton Carillon in St. Petersburg, FL. Fighting out of St. Petersburg, Fernandez is 15-5-3 with 5 wins by knockout. The popular southpaw impressively defeated Zhimin Wang (11-3) last May via ...
He screamed, shouted, and of course, fought his way into one of the biggest fights of the year. However, Ryan Garcia knows good and well that a gargantuan task now stands before him. On April 22nd, in front of what’s expected to be a jam-packed crowd at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, Garcia (23-0, 19 KOs) will place ...
Andrew Cancio is no longer set to resume his career. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the former secondary WBA junior lightweight titlist was pulled from a planned eight-round clash versus Jonathan de Pina. An undisclosed injury suffered late in training camp left Cancio unable to proceed with their bout originally due to take place this Thursday at Agganis Arena in Boston, ...
Francis Ngannou is determined to get in the squared circle first before he ever steps back into the octagon. In an interview with ESPN on Friday, the former UFC champion from Cameroon offered an update on his career, saying he expects to announce his boxing debut in the next “month or two.” His opponent is up in the air, but ...
Kevin Gonzalez will grace the undercard of another high-profile event. The unbeaten junior featherweight prospect is set to next face Colombia’s Jose Sanmartin on March 25 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The preliminary bout will immediately precede the Showtime Pay-Per-View telecast headlined by the David Benavidez-Caleb Plant interim WBC super middleweight title fight. Shane Shapiro, Sanmartin’s ...
Shohjahon Ergashev remains first in line to compete in an IBF title eliminator. The process to secure an opponent for such a fight, however, remains an arduous task. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the IBF has sent an invitation to Australia’s Stevie Spark to enter talks for a final elimination bout versus Uzbekistan’s Ergashev. Spark—who is signed to Matchroom Boxing—will have ...
Tim Tszyu believes he delivered a message to Jermell Charlo by dropping and stopping the only opponent who has beaten Charlo. Tszyu looked directly into the camera and expressed his intentions to the undisputed 154-pound champion after he beat Tony Harrison by ninth-round technical knockout Sunday afternoon in Sydney, Australia. “The message was sent clearly,” Tszyu said when asked in ...
Julian Rodriguez wasn’t necessarily pleased with how he fought Friday night, but he desperately needed some rounds after a 21-month layoff. Rodriguez decisively defeated Kashon Hutchinson in his first fight since he took his lone loss, a technical-knockout defeat to former two-division champion Jose Pedraza in June 2021.The 28-year-old Rodriguez shed some rust, but he felt the effects of his ...
Popular undefeated hometown favorite Tim Tszyu dominated former world champion Tony Harrison with a ninth-round TKO to win the Interim WBO Super Welterweight title Sunday in a SHOWTIME BOXING INTERNATIONAL main event live on SHOWTIME before 11,740 rabid pro-Tszyu fans at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. With the win Tszyu became the mandatory challenger to undisputed super welterweight king ...