Kalle Sauerland says his ace client Chris Eubank Jr. is solely focused on the tangible deal at hand, which is a rematch with Liam Smith—not a fight with Conor Benn. The boxing world has been rife with gossip lately concerning a potential match between Eubank Jr. and 147-pound compatriot Benn for June 3 in Abu Dhabi. Eubank and Benn were ...
A host of fighters on the cusp of contention will return to action at Bellator 293 as the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula plays host to the Bellator cage for the first time since 2019. The California venue was due to host a Bellator event back in May 2020 but the global COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of that ...
Janibek Alimkhanuly and Steven Butler have a site for their middleweight championship match May 13. Promoter Top Rank announced Wednesday that their 12-round fight for Alimkhanuly’s WBO 160-pound title will headline a card at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California. ESPN will televise Alimkhanuly-Butler as the main event of a three-bout broadcast. Neither Kazakhstan’s Alimkhanuly nor Canada’s Butler are from the ...
Last month in Saudi Arabia, heavyweights Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury were both ringside for the Jake Paul vs. Tommy Fury showdown. At some point during the event, the two rivals came together and appeared to exchange pleasantries with each other. During their trilogy series, Wilder had openly accused Fury of being a "cheater." In the aftermath of their second ...
Dakota Ditcheva is very aware of the high expectations placed upon her, but even she was slightly taken aback by the added pressure of being one of the stars of the show at PFL Europe 1. England’s Ditcheva has been earmarked for stardom in the PFL, and was featured in the co-main event slot for the PFL Europe season opener ...
Kenshiro Teraji remains on course to defend his junior flyweight championship. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Anthony Olascuaga has been tabbed to next challenge Teraji atop an April 8 ESPN+ show from Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Los Angeles’ Olascuaga was among the leading candidates to land the short-notice assignment after WBO junior flyweight titlist Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez was diagnosed with mycoplasma ...
Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn has promoted six out of Canelo Alvarez’s last seven fights. The seventh Hearn-promoted Alvarez event will take place on May 6 in Guadalajara, Mexico when the undisputed super middleweight champion Alvarez (58-2-2, 39 KOs) defends his titles against British challenger John Ryder (32-5, 18 KOs). The clash against the ascending Ryder is somewhat of a ...
Brave CF bantamweight Jose Torres is looking to make a statement when he steps into the cage to face South African contender Nkosi “The Future” Ndebele at Brave CF 70 on April 23. Torres has his sights set on the top of the Brave CF bantamweight division, and sees a decisive finish of Ndebele as the perfect way to catapult ...
Jose Ramirez insists there is nothing else that will hold up his quest to return to the top of the junior welterweight division. The former unified WBC/WBO titlist posted his second straight win with an eleventh-round knockout of Richard Commey, a past IBF lightweight titlist who has seen his best days. Their ESPN-televised headliner from Save Mart Arena in Fresno, ...
Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman is one of the biggest characters in the UFC’s 185-pound division, and he’s showing every bit of that character as he looks to rebound from one of the most horrific injuries ever seen inside the Octagon. Weidman snapped his leg during his bout with Uriah Hall at UFC 261 in April 2021. It was ...