Former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold has signed for Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship and will headline on his debut against fellow former UFC fighter Mike Perry on April 29 in Denver, Colorado. BKFC 41 was announced on The MMA Hour by the promotion’s president David Feldman, who confirmed the main event matchup, as well as a trio of other fights ...
Brandon Figueroa feels Mark Magsayo deserved the lone loss on his professional record. Figueroa watched the Rey Vargas-Magsayo fight from ringside July 9, when Mexico’s Vargas defeated Magsayo by split decision to win the WBC featherweight title from him at Alamodome in San Antonio. Figueroa, who stopped Carlos Castro in the sixth round on the Vargas-Magsayo undercard, agreed with judges ...
Conor Benn may have garnered the kind of clarity needed to lure someone like Manny Pacquiao into the ring. Benn, the embattled British welterweight, was the recipient of some favorable news recently when the World Boxing Council wrapped up its investigation of his two positive drug tests by deeming that a “highly elevated consumption of eggs” was a credible explanation. ...
After begging, pleading, and launching curse-filled tirades in the direction of every notable super middleweight, David Benavidez was granted his wish. On March 25th in Las Vegas, Nevada, Benavidez will look to settle his long-standing rivalry with Caleb Plant. Winning their 168-pound clash might be incredibly salient to the 26-year-old but in the back of his mind, he’s mapping out ...
The boxing business may be fragmented beyond repair, but Robert Smith gets the sense that the top commissions in the world tend to see eye to eye on the matters that count the most. In a piece published in The Guardian this week, Smith, the head of the British Boxing Board of Control, the regulatory body that oversees prizefighting in ...
Xander Zayas (15-0, 10 KOs) is one month away from his first fight of 2023. The Puerto Rican junior middleweight phenom will face nine-year veteran Ronald "Diablo" Cruz in the eight-round co-feature to the WBO featherweight world title clash between Robeisy Ramirez and Isaac Dogboe on Saturday, April 1, at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa. Ramirez-Dogboe, Zayas-Cruz and undercard ...
Katie Taylor has not given up on her long overdue homecoming headliner. The undisputed lightweight queen has pushed her team to come up with a contingency plan in the wake of a now-postponed rematch with Amanda Serrano. There remains a hold on May 20 at 3Arena in Dublin, where Taylor was prepared to defend her lightweight championship. The fighting pride ...
Matchroom Boxing returns to Mexico for the latest installment of their popular fight night series on Saturday March 4 at the Polideportivo Arena in Culiacan, Mexico exclusively live on DAZN – headlined by Angel Fierro facing Eduardo Estela. (photos by Melina Pizano) Fierro (20-1-2, 16KOs) defends his WBO NABO Lightweight title against Uruguay’s once-beaten Estela (14-1, 9KO’s) in what promises ...
Hard-hitting former world champions Brandon “The Heartbreaker” Figueroa and Mark “Magnifico” Magsayo went face-to-face at Thursday’s final press conference and promised fireworks when they meet for the vacant Interim WBC Featherweight Title this Saturday, March 4 live on SHOWTIME from Toyota Arena in Ontario, Calif. headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Esther Lin) The press conference also featured ...
A jam-packed lineup featuring a former title challenger and U.S. Olympian, a top prospect in his toughest test to date and an emerging unbeaten super lightweight will highlight the Showtime Boxing Countdown live streaming presentation this Saturday, March 4 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from Toyota Arena in Ontario, Calif. Super welterweight contender Terrell Gausha will top the action ...