Rising heavyweight contender Daniel James showcased his fight-ending punch power as he turned his main event bout with Marcelo Golm on its head in spectacular fashion at Bellator 293. James and Golm faced off in the main event at the Pechanga Casino Resort in Temecula, California, where things weren’t looking too good for James after being largely dominated on the ...
Oscar De La Hoya has urged his former star client to pursue his next several fights with some semblance of urgency. De La Hoya, the head of Golden Boy Promotion, was pleased to hear that Canelo Alvarez will be returning to his homeland of Mexico for the first time in over a decade to defend his four 168-pound titles against ...
The start of the 2023 PFL season is finally here, and the fighters set for action in the opening event of the new campaign took to the scale ahead of fight night in Las Vegas Headlining the event is the return of 2023 featherweight champion Brendan Loughnane, who is set to take on former UFC bantamweight title challenger and ex-World ...
Showtime will air all four bouts from last Saturday’s exciting four-fight Showtime PPV event headlined by David Benavidez and Caleb Plant. This Saturday, April 1 at 11:05 p.m. ET/PT, the network will debut Benavidez’s benchmark win as well as Jesus Ramos’ dominant stoppage win over Joey Spencer. The opening two fights of the pay-per-view card, Cody Crowley vs. Abel Ramos ...
Bernd Bonte is a believer in Anthony Joshua. The famously scrupulous German handler of Ukrainian brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, the two top heavyweights of the aughts, insisted that Joshua is bound to have a resurgent second chapter of his career. Joshua is coming off two straight points losses to Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion from Ukraine. ...
Anthony Joshua doesn’t “really care” whether Dillian Whyte or Jermaine Franklin deserved to win their 12-round fight four months ago. Joshua just knows that spending 12 rounds in the ring against Whyte made Franklin a better, more confident fighter and will make Franklin more difficult for him to beat Saturday night. The former IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO heavyweight champ ...
Undefeated New York super welterweight Jahyae Brown will face intriguing Argentine prospect Guido Schramm in a newly added 10-round co-feature as part of an exciting ShoBox tripleheader on Friday, April 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT live on Showtime from Cache Creek Casino in Brooks, Calif. The bout replaces the super featherweight bout between Neri Romero and Frency Fortunato that fell ...
Promoter Bob Arum says negotiations between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk were destined to “unravel” after a deal was unable to be consummated with investors in the Middle East. After a protracted, and often frustrating, period of talks, Fury, the WBC titlist, whom Arum’s Top Rank co-promotes, and Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion, abandoned their efforts earlier this ...