LAS VEGAS – Devin Haney has plenty of financial incentive to squeeze down to the lightweight limit one more time if he beats Vasiliy Lomachenko on Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Haney’s weight cut for their 12-round, 135-pound championship match has been more tolerable than usual because he has used his nutritionist, James Lockwood, for eight weeks during ...
The list of options was endless for who Katie Taylor could have faced in her long overdue homecoming. Little thought would have been given had the Irish superstar opted for the safest possible option for this weekend’s DAZN headliner at 3Arena in Dublin. A walkover fight would have been forgiven, especially in the wake of Taylor losing out on a ...
There isn’t a fighter in or near Katie Taylor’s weight class that Claressa Shields would favor to beat the undefeated, fully unified lightweight champion. Chantelle Cameron will have size and youth on her side Saturday night in Dublin, but Shields doesn’t believe those advantages will be enough to overcome one of the fighters Shields admires most. The undefeated, undisputed middleweight ...
Katie Taylor has rejected the idea that the official judges will have a bias in her favor, in Saturday's showdown with Chantelle Cameron. Taylor, the undisputed world champion at 135-pounds, is moving up to junior welterweight to challenge Cameron for her undisputed championship. Both fighters are also staking their unbeaten records. Their fight is the headline bout for Taylor's homecoming ...
Oscar Valdez learned firsthand a year ago just how difficult it is to deal with Shakur Stevenson’s skills in the ring. The unbeaten Stevenson dominated Valdez during their 12-round, 130-pound title unification fight last April 30 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Stevenson sent Valdez to the canvas in the sixth round and won by wide distances on ...
LAS VEGAS – Devin Haney’s hard shove on stage Friday afternoon convinced Vasiliy Lomachenko that he has the undefeated, undisputed lightweight champion right where he wants him. “Now he’s mine,” Lomachenko told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel immediately after the incident. “He don’t have the power.” Haney uncharacteristically lost his composure after their ceremonial weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena and pushed ...
Since being elevated to world champion in 2019, Devin Haney’s lightweight reign has been met with a chorus of boos and inquisitive looks. Of course, just a few months prior to his elevation, Haney was hopeful that winning the WBC interim crown would be enough to force Vasiliy Lomachenko, who then held three of the four major world titles, into ...
Regis Prograis can’t believe another 140-pound contender appears to be hesitant to fight him for his WBC title. Arnold Barboza Jr., the other 140-pound contender in question, finds it rich that Prograis would call him out after making a decision to sign with a rival promoter. In the latest boxing soap opera, two of the top 140-pounders took to social ...
On Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Devin Haney will defend the WBO, IBF, WBA, WBC lightweight titles against Vasiliy Lomachenko. The fight is the biggest of Haney's career, with Lomachenko being a three division world champion and a two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Haney is viewed as the favorite, the bigger young lion on the rise. ...
LAS VEGAS – Devin Haney and Vasiliy Lomachenko met their contractual obligations Friday morning, about seven hours before they’ll be forced to pretend to do it again at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Haney stepped on the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s scale at 134.9 pounds for their 12-round, 135-pound championship match Saturday night at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Lomachenko was slightly ...