Skye Nicolson is confident this will be the night where she registers her first pro stoppage. The 2020 Olympic quarterfinalist for Australia has gone to the scorecards in all six fights to date, including the full ten-round distance in each of her last two fights. Nicolson acknowledged an awkward style match which led to an uneven performance in a win ...
Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov is not interested in an at-length discussion of his upcoming title fight defense. Not even the aid of a translator could get the unbeaten Tajikistan-born southpaw to open up about his rescheduled showdown versus Cardiff’’s Joe Cordina. The two meet for the IBF junior lightweight title previously held by Cordina but which Rakhimov has claimed and will defend ...
Someone had to be first. The idea of a “fab four” for a new generation is something any boxing fan could get excited about. As Gervonta Davis, Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, and Teofimo Lopez made their way up the ranks, they were linked by the possibilities and potential they presented for the future. Davis has emerged as one of the ...
Undefeated rivals and boxing superstars Gervonta “Tank” Davis and “King” Ryan Garcia went face-to-face for the first time during fight week at Thursday’s final press conference before they meet this Saturday, April 22 in a SHOWTIME PPV production from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. (photos by Esther Lin, Cris Esquida) The press ...
Undefeated rivals and boxing superstars Gervonta “Tank” Davis and “King” Ryan Garcia went face-to-face for the first time during fight week at Thursday’s final press conference before they meet this Saturday, April 22 in a SHOWTIME PPV production from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas in an event presented by Premier Boxing Champions. (photos by Esther Lin, Cris Esquida) The press ...
LAS VEGAS – One weigh-in down for Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia, one more to go. Davis and Garcia both came in below their much-discussed contracted catch weight of 136 pounds Friday afternoon for their high-profile 12-round fight Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. Baltimore’s Davis stepped on the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s scale at 135¼ pounds, whereas Garcia got on ...
Adrien Broner will face a similar level of opposition in his debut with new promoter Don King as he was supposed to face in his February fight that was canceled. BoxingScene.com has learned that Broner will battle Bill Hutchinson in the main event of a King pay-per-view show June 9 at Casino Miami. Their 10-round, 147-pound fight, which will take ...
Floyd Mayweather Jr. wants to clean up boxing’s fractured and muddied world title picture. The former five-division champion has proclaimed for years that the sport has way too many champions. Sanctioning bodies like the WBC, WBO, WBA, IBF, and IBO as well as Ring Magazine all have an omnipresent role in boxing by anointing champions. Although Mayweather held titles from ...
Sergei Pavlovich and Curtis Blaydes both weighed in toward the upper echelon of the UFC’s heavyweight limit ahead of their main event bout at UFC Vegas 71 in Las Vegas. Blaydes was the first of the main event fighters to step on the scale, and he came in looking solid at 262.5 pounds. But there was a lengthy wait until ...
The UFC returns home to Las Vegas this weekend for UFC Vegas 71, where a pivotal bout for the promotion’s heavyweight division takes top billing at the UFC Apex. Longtime heavyweight contender Curtis Blaydes is looking to position himself for his first shot at UFC championship gold, but on Saturday night he’ll have to halt the charge of surging Russian ...