Daniel Dubois is cleared to next challenge for a heavyweight title. All that’s left now is to actually make the fight happen. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the WBA has fully verified medical information submitted by Dubois and his team, which confirmed that the Londoner is fit to resume his career without interruption. The step was key in the sanctioning moving ...
Eddie Hearn is certain that Anthony Joshua will want to challenge Tyson Fury for his WBC heavyweight title if that bout becomes a realistic option for Joshua’s next fight. Joshua’s promoter also acknowledged that facing Fury next probably isn’t ideal if Joshua is to continue to improve while working with his new trainer, Derrick James. The 33-year-old Joshua comfortably beat ...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif – In 19 professional fights, Vasiliy Lomachenko officially has two losses on his resume, the first one coming to Orlando Salido via split decision in 2014, and the second against Teofimo Lopez Jr. in 2020. If you ask oddsmakers, the two-time Olympics gold medalist and three-division champion Lomachenko (17-2, 11 KOs) is trending toward the third loss of ...
The worlds of mixed martial arts and professional wrestling will join forces, with the UFC and WWE set to become part of the same company following a huge deal struck by the UFC’s parent company Endeavor. The news comes with the announcement from Endeavor, which has signed a “definitive agreement” to create a brand new, publicly-listed company that will consist ...
Anthony Joshua needed a win more than anything Saturday night because he hadn’t emerged from a fight victorious in 27 months. From that perspective, soundly out-pointing Jermaine Franklin in their 12-round bout amounted to a success for the 33-year-old former heavyweight champion. Joshua admitted afterward, though, that he was disappointed with his performance because Franklin made it to the final ...
Veteran referee and judge Ian John-Lewis says the British Boxing Board of Control has made a big mistake in deciding to single him out for his controversial scoring of the Josh Taylor vs. Jack Catterall undisputed 140-pound bout last year. The 61-year-old John-Lewis was one of three judges involved in last year’s infamous Taylor-Catterall title bout. Taylor’s split decision win ...
Heavyweight Steve Robinson headlines Fight Academy’s show on April 7th at Durham’s Rainton Meadows Arena – live on Fightzone. The Geordie might be genial outside the ring but, as he admits, he likes to finish fights early and doesn’t mind taking a punch to land one! Turning over in 2019, the Newcastle man raced to four wins, with three KOs, ...
Mexican boxing legend Erik Morales and current trainer of middleweight contender Jaime Munguia believes Gennadiy Golovkin is effectively a retired fighter. “El Terrible” informed the Spanish-language site IZQUIERDAZO that he was told by a promotional company that is involved with Govokin that the Kazakh puncher would be stepping away from the sport from an undetermined amount of time—or enough time ...
Joe Joyce has welcomed the development of former GB teammate Anthony Joshua mentioning his name as a potential future opponent, once his return fight against Jermaine Franklin has been settled on Saturday night. Joyce, of course, also has big business of his own to negotiate in the shape of Chinese giant Zhilei 'Big Bang' Zhang at the Copper Box Arena ...
Former cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew explained his part in the post-fight scuffle that broke out in the aftermath of Anthony Joshua's twelve round decision win over Jermaine Franklin. On Saturday night at the O2 Arena in London, a near brawl broke out between Joshua and Franklin in the immediate aftermath of the fight's conclusion. While Joshua and Franklin were being ...