ONE Championship’s inaugural trip to the United States is less than five weeks away, and the promotion recently announced that the event has already sold out. Asia’s largest martial arts organization will take ONE Fight Night 10: Johnson vs. Moraes III to the 1stBank Center in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, May 5. The historic event will be headlined by the ...
Super featherweight rising prospect, George “El Yuyu” Acosta (14-1, 2 KO), of Whittier, Ca, will return to the ring against Blas Ezequiel Caro (9-5, 4 KOs) of Rosario, Argentina. The 8-round bout will serve as the main event on Thompson Boxing’s “New Blood” card. In the 8-round featherweight co-main event, Rigoberto Hermosillo (12-4-1, 9 KOs) of Los Angeles, CA, will ...
According to top junior middleweight Tim Tszyu, there is a further delay to his mandatory fight with undisputed world champion Jermell Charlo. Tszyu saw action last month, when he picked up a ninth round knockout of former world champion Tony Harrison. He was initially scheduled to face Charlo, but their fight was delayed when the champion sustained a hand injury ...
The first four months of 2023 have not been kind to the Shigeoka family. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that unbeaten strawweight challenger Yudai Shigeoka is in need of a new opponent after WBC strawweight titlist Panya Pradabsri was pulled from their April 16 bout in Tokyo. Thailand’s Pradabsri remains hospitalized after suffering strep throat and an escalating fever which required immediate ...
Undefeated prospect Darius “DFG” Fulghum (3-0, 3 KOs) is now a promotional free agent after parting ways with Disrupt Promotions which acquired several assets from Probellum. The 26-year-old Fulghum, fighting out of Houston, signed with Probellum in late 2021, and made his pro debut December 16, 2021, stopping Juan Emmanuel Navarette Liera in the opening round. His last fight was ...
John Fury, father of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has fired back at the recent statements from Deontay Wilder. Fury and Wilder have collided on three occasions. They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in 2018. Fury would stop Wilder in the seventh round of the 2020 rematch - and the 2021 trilogy saw both boxers hit the ...
Three intriguing pay-per-view matchups featuring knockout artists and rising stars will precede three-division world champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis’ 12-round super fight with hard-hitting sensation “King” Ryan Garcia in a SHOWTIME PPV production on Saturday, April 22 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The pay-per-view telecast will begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and ...
Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte believes Anthony Joshua's best move, at the moment, is to finalize their rematch for the summer. Joshua, after suffering back to back defeats to Oleksandr Usyk, bounced back last Saturday night in London, with a twelve round unanimous decision over Jermaine Franklin. Whyte, who was watching from ringside last weekend, won a twelve round decision over ...
Featherweight contender Ruben “Drac” Villa, the 25-year-old southpaw dynamo from Salinas, California, has inked a multi-fight promotional contract with Top Rank. Villa will make his ring return in an eight-rounder Saturday, May 13, on the undercard of the Janibek Alimkhanuly-Steven Butler WBO middleweight title fight at Stockton Arena in Stockton, California. “Ruben Villa has everything it takes to become a ...
KSW Colosseum 2, the huge stadium event set for Poland’s national stadium in Warsaw on June 3, now has a main event. Headlining the show is a middleweight trilogy fight between former 185-pound champions Mamed Khalidov and Scott Askham, with the bout officially unveiled via KSW’s social media channels. Khalidov is the biggest star in KSW history. The former multi-time ...