Paris, France - In a crossroads heavyweight clash, Carlos Takam (40-7-1, 28 KOs) outworked and shocked Olympic gold medal winner Tony Yoka (11-2, 9 KOs) to win a ten round split decision. (photos Lawrence Lustig) The scores were 96-94 for Takam, 96-94 for Yoka and 96-94 for Takam. Yoka was returning for the first time since suffering his first career ...
Katie Taylor has the chance to become a two-weight undisputed world champion when she takes on undisputed super lightweight world champion Chantelle Cameron in a historic homecoming fight at the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday May 20, shown live worldwide on DAZN. Irish legend Taylor (22-0, 6 KOs) fights in Ireland for the first time in her professional career ...
Tyson Fury isn’t too concerned that he has a relatively short window of time to prepare for the undisputed heavyweight championship. Fury, the WBC titlist from Manchester, England, indicated on Saturday that he had begun his training camp for a proposed fight with WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine on April 29 at Wembley Stadium in London. ...
Tim Tszyu beat up the man who beat the man. Tszyu dropped and stopped former WBC super welterweight champ Tony Harrison in the ninth round of their fight for the WBO interim junior middleweight title Sunday afternoon at Qudos Bank Arena in Tszyu’s hometown of Sydney, Australia. The stronger, younger Tszyu rocked Harrison with two right hands that hurt Harrison ...
Earning title shots can happen a lot of different ways. There are systems in place that can be worked to get to cracks at alphabet titles. They have merit elements but aren’t inherently about merit as much as participation in the structures of the sport. If it was all about merit, we’d never see any sanctioning body go down their ...
Georgian bantamweight contender Merab Dvalishvili delivered a statement performance to defeat former champion Petr Yan in an incredible five-round display at UFC Las Vegas. Dvalishvili faced off with Russia’s Yan in a bout that saw tempers flare during fight week with the tensions between the fighters’ respective countries forming the backdrop for a heated rivalry that was decided inside the ...
Tony Harrison has grown accustomed to putting his name out there for the biggest fights only for them to never materialize. It was with that mindset that he knew to remain patient but not get his hopes up for a lucrative showdown with unbeaten junior middleweight contender Tim Tszyu. In a rare twist of his fate, his wishes were immediately ...
It’s all the way back to the drawing board for Tony Yoka. A second straight defeat was dealt to the 2016 Olympic Gold medalist, who was outworked by 42-year-old Carlos Takam over ten rounds. The judges did their best to deny the upset, as Yoka won 96-94 on one card. It was overruled by still too-close scores of 96-94 from ...
Lauren Price went more rounds than ever before to earn her latest win. The 2020 Olympic Gold medalist outboxed Germany’s Naomi Mannes over eight rounds. Price won by scores of 80-72 on all three scorecards in their ESPN+/Canal+/Sky Sports televised welterweight bout Saturday evening at Zenith de Paris-La Villette in Paris, France. Price entered her first scheduled eight-round contest along ...
Callum Smith is probably feeling pretty chuffed, as far as injured fighters go. The former super middleweight titlist from Liverpool reportedly suffered an injury that forced him to bow out of a 175-pound fight with Pawel Stepien scheduled for March 11. But now Smith could be in line for a far more appealing—and lucrative—fight later this year: a showdown with ...