Five-time, three-division world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis takes on hard-hitting “King” Ryan Garcia in a highly anticipated 12-round showdown headlining a pay-per-view event on Saturday, April 22 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The telecast is being produced and distributed by Showtime PPV and will be available across pay-per-view providers including DAZN PPV. Tickets ...
ONTARIO, California – George Garcia got to size up a potential opponent for his son Saturday night. Elijah Garcia shared a locker room with Armando Resendiz at Toyota Arena, where the young middleweights impressively won their televised fights on the Brandon Figueroa-Mark Magsayo undercard. The 19-year-old Garcia (14-0, 12 KOs), of Wittmann, Arizona, knocked out Uruguayan middleweight contender Amical Vidal ...
Stephen Fulton should be very low on any list of fighters who have to prove their place among the sport’s elite. Somehow, the unbeaten and unified WBC/WBO junior featherweight titlist felt compelled to pursue a pound-for-pound showdown with Naoya Inoue. Whatever criticism existed, Fulton was more than happy to answer the call as the two will collide May 7 at ...
At one point, the career of Mario Barrios shone incandescently. But after brazenly attempting to turn back the challenge of Gervonta Davis in 2021, the 27-year-old was forced to hit the reset button. Although he experienced loads of success at 140 pounds, the San Antonio native believed that a move up in weight would afford his body a reprieve. In ...
If there’s a better way to turn 54 – while staying both married and out of jail – I can’t think of it. So even though my birthday morning flight from Las Vegas to Miami was filled with people whose direction-following skills would rate badly among 10-year-olds – the fact that I spent my birthday eve at T-Mobile Arena covering ...
“Path to Glory”, Thompson Boxing’s popular boxing series returns this Friday March 10th, as Corona, California’s very own Louis Lopez (13-1-1, 4 KOs) will face Angel Beltran (15-1, 9 KOs) of Mexicali, Mexico. The 8-round welterweight clash will serve as the main event. A special tribute honoring the life of TBP promoter Ken Thompson, who recently passed, will kick off ...
No matter who wins this weekend in the clash between 32-year old former WBC super welterweight titlist Tony Harrison (29-3-1, 21 KO) and 28-year old Tim Tszyu (21-0, 15 KO), the sport of boxing will still come out ahead. That doesn’t mean one can be sure where we’re headed. 154 pounds remains in the midst of one of its most ...
Junior middleweight star Tim Tszyu is only days away from toughest fight of his career. This coming Saturday night in Australia, Tszyu will collide with former WBC world champion Tony Harrison at the Qudos Bank Arena (Sunday in Australia). The vacant WBO interim-title will be at stake. Tszyu was scheduled to face undisputed champion Jermell Charlo. The fight was postponed ...
Promoter Frank Warren has acknowledged that negotiations for the undisputed heavyweight championship are still very much a work in progress. Tyson Fury, the WBC titlist from Manchester, England, whom Warren promotes, and Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF champion from Ukraine, have been in protracted discussions for the past few months to fight each other for all four heavyweight ...
Ekaterinburg - In the main event of the night, two flamboyant MMA artists Ivan Shtyrkov and Magomed Ismailov collided under the Marquess of Queensbury rules in a scheduled six-rounder, and awkward but spirited Ismailov enjoyed a majority decision over slow, more orthodox fighter in Shtyrkov. There was much action and less skill in an intense encounter, which saw Ismailov doing better ...