Now that was a weekend, eh? Though only the latter’s main pay-per-view event moved the needle on a mainstream basis, the fight cards staged in Wales and Las Vegas provided a full Saturday’s worth of compelling violence. The Tuesday morning crew got together in the aftermath to pore through the notebook scribbles and compile them into a mildly coherent collection ...
Ryan Garcia apparently thinks there was a turncoat in his midst as he was preparing to fight Gevonta Davis. The fighters engaged each other Saturday night in front of a packed crowd at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Baltimore’s Davis ended up stopping Garcia with a body shot in the seventh round. While the two seemed to settle their ...
Super featherweight George “El Yuyu” Acosta (15-1, 2 KO), of Whittier, Ca, defeated Cesar Villarraga (8-3, 4 KOs) of Bogota, Colombia, by way of unanimous decision to keep his 8-fight winning streak alive. The 8-round bout served as the main event headliner on Thompson Boxing’s “New Blood” card this past Friday at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA. From the ...
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya took to social media to explained why he, and Golden Boy partner Bernard Hopkins, were absent from Saturday's post-fight press conference for the lightweight showdown between Gervonta Davis vs. Ryan Garcia. In a highly anticipated fight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Davis dropped Garcia in the second round and then ...
A pair of 19-year-old lightweights are set to return in separate bouts as part of the ESPN+-streamed undercard to the PPV main event headlined by the undisputed lightweight championship battle between Devin Haney and Vasiliy Lomachenko at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Undefeated Las Vegas native Emiliano Fernando Vargas will take on an opponent to be named ...
‘King’ Callum Walsh, (6-0, 5 KOs), of Cork, Ireland faces veteran Carson Jones, (43-15-3, 31 KOs), of Oklahoma City, OK on the next edition of the ‘Hollywood Fight Nights’ series at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, CA and broadcast globally on UFC Fight Pass. Said Tom Loeffler, “Callum continues to show in each fight that he has both the ...
This past Saturday night in Poland, heavyweight contender Martin Bakole blew away Ihor Shevadzutskyi in three quick rounds. After the fight, Bakole called for fights with some of the biggest names in his division. Bakole's promoter, Ben Shalom of BOXXER, would like to get him in the ring with former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. Wilder is ranked at number ...
Top heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang is looking for the biggest fights possible in the weight class. Zhang is riding high after stunning the division earlier this month with a stoppage win over unbeaten Joe Joyce to capture the WBO's interim-title. Joyce has the scenario of exercising an immediate rematch clause. If Joyce goes in that direction, Zhang would like the ...
LAS VEGAS – Gervonta Davis didn’t feel the need late Saturday night to discuss Devin Haney. When a reporter informed Davis after his seventh-round knockout of Ryan Garcia that Haney wants to fight him next, Davis advised the undefeated, fully unified lightweight champion to focus on the difficult assignment that already awaits him. Haney is scheduled to defend his IBF, ...
At one point, it seemed blasphemous to place anyone in the same stratosphere as Vasiliy Lomachenko. His bemusing angles, ubiquitous offensive output, and sublime defensive acumen allowed the Ukrainian to aggregate world titles in three separate weight classes. Ultimately, his reign atop the lightweight division was truncated at the hands of Teofimo Lopez in 2020. Fast forward roughly three years ...