Chris “Prime Time” Colbert bounced back from his February 2022 unanimous decision loss to Hector Luis Garcia with a razor thin victory over Jose “Rayo” Valenzuela. Colbert hit the deck just seconds into the fight last Saturday night but rallied to win 95-94 on all three official scorecards in what was his lightweight debut. Many observers felt Valenzuela deserved the ...
Leah McCourt is back in the win column, back on form and potentially one win away from a shot at the Bellator women’s featherweight title. Northern Ireland’s McCourt saw her six-fight win streak snapped in Dublin in February 2022 when she lost a decision to former title challenger Sinead Kavanagh, but rebounded with a strong performance to defeat Dayana Silva ...
Anthony Joshua has lifted the lid on his infamous in-ring outburst in the wake of his second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in August. After it was confirmed Usyk had earned a unanimous decision and therefore kept hold of his IBF, WBA, IBO and WBO titles in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Joshua openly lost the plot. First he was seen to dump ...
After capturing his first major MMA title and becoming a millionaire in the process, you’d be forgiven for thinking Brendan Loughnane would be taking things a little easier in 2023. But the Mancunian is having none of it. Rather than sitting back and enjoying the fruits of his labor in 2022, when he captured the PFL’s featherweight championship and the ...
KSW will crown a new welterweight champion in the main event of KSW 81 as Adrian Bartosinski and Artur Szczepaniak go head to head in the main event in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland on April 22. Bartosinski is undefeated at 13-0, with his last five wins coming under the KSW banner. His most notable win came in his last outing in ...
Even die-hard fight freak Charles Dickens would agree: Last week was the best of weeks. And it was the worst of weeks. The former tag applies largely because of a Saturday night spent flitting between Las Vegas and central California, where dueling cards produced by Showtime and ESPN yielded compelling and street cred-enhancing main events at 168 and 140 pounds ...
The show goes on. WBC/WBA light flyweight world champion Kenshiro “The Amazing Boy” Teraji was supposed to face WBO champ Jonathan Gonzalez in a three-belt unification tilt Saturday, April 8, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan. Gonzalez withdrew with an illness, and Teraji will now defend his titles against undefeated American challenger Anthony Olascuaga The five-fight card will also feature ...
The third phase in the career of the biggest heavyweight ticket seller in boxing begins this Saturday (DAZN, 2 PM EST). It could end up being the most interesting phase of Joshua’s career. Or could it play out as an epilogue? The first person who will get a chance to help answer that question will be the opponent the 33-year ...
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Robeisy “El Tren” Ramirez (11-1, 7 KOs) has completed training camp ahead of his 12-round battle against former junior featherweight world champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (24-2, 15 KOs). The two will lock horns for the vacant WBO featherweight title this Saturday at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa. (photos by Mikey Williams) But before closing ...
Canelo Alvarez is set to defend his Undisputed World Super-Middleweight title against John Ryder in a Mexico homecoming on Cinco de Mayo weekend 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. (photos by Meg Oliphant) “He [Ryder] has everything to win, nothing to ...