Promoter Ben Shalom of Boxxer believes the career of Chris Eubank Jr. is certainly at stake in the upcoming rematch with Liam Smith. Back in January, Smith scored a sensational knockout of Eubank in four rounds. It was the first knockout loss of Eubank's career. Smith, a former world champion at 154-pounds, was moving up to the middleweight division and ...
Robeisy "El Tren" Ramirez is ready to make the inaugural defense of his WBO featherweight world title against a fellow two-time Olympian. Ramirez will take on Japanese contender Satoshi “Diamond Left” Shimizu Tuesday, July 25, at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Ramirez-Shimizu will serve as the co-feature to the world title showdown between Philadelphia’s WBC/WBO junior featherweight champion Stephen Fulton and ...
Prior to sauntering his way through the arena, Ryan Garcia was praised for his willingness to take a gigantic step up in class. Mostly viewed as a pretty face with overstated skills, Garcia (23-1, 19 KOs) was anxious to change the narrative surrounding his career. This past Saturday night, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the extremely popular ...
Felix Alvarado is back at the negotiating table. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the former IBF junior flyweight titlist is currently in talks with Dave Apolinario, per an order from the IBF for a proposed flyweight title eliminator. The bout was summoned after both parties accepted an invitation from the sanctioning body to enter talks for a fight to determine the ...
This morning at the main hall of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman unveiled the commemorative belt that will be presented to the winner of the upcoming super middleweight clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs. John Ryder. Canelo, who holds the WBC, IBF, WBA, WBO world titles at 168, will defend the undisputed crown against Ryder on May ...
Alex Krassyuk, promoter for WBO, IBO, IBA, IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, has indicated that his boxer's mandatory defense, against Daniel Dubois, could potentially take place in Poland. The mandatory clash is targeted to take place in the summer. Usyk had tried to finalize an undisputed fight with WBC world champion Tyson Fury - but the two sides were unable ...
The Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia fight did even bigger business than those involved in the event expected. BoxingScene.com has learned that their Showtime Pay-Per-View main event generated approximately 1.2 million buys in the United States. Most insiders interviewed by BoxingScene.com before Davis’ seventh-round knockout of Garcia projected that it would produce anywhere between 450,000 and 750,000 buys, which still would’ve been ...
Every fighter has a story to share, but few can offer a tale quite as crazy as Shem Rock’s. The 29-year-old English lightweight is all set to make his promotional debut for Oktagon MMA this weekend at Oktagon 42, but his path to the cage is unlike anything we’ve heard before. Long before he discovered martial arts, Rock found himself ...
Sunny Edwards will defend his IBF World Flyweight title against Andres Campos at the OVO Arena Wembley, London on Saturday June 10 live worldwide on DAZN – and topping a blockbuster tripleheader of World title action with Nina Hughes defending her WBA Bantamweight crown against Shannon Courtenay and Cherneka Johnson defending her IBF Super-Bantamweight strap against Ellie Scotney. Edwards (19-0 ...
Franchon Crews-Dezurn was caught a little off guard by the claim that Savannah Marshall has always wanted this fight. It didn’t take long for the pair to agree to terms once talks were underway to compete for Crews-Dezurn’s undisputed super middleweight championship. The part for which the defending champ would like an explanation, however, is why it even took this ...