One week after one of the biggest, and most debated, fights of the year, boxing delivered a flurry of activity on Saturday with three major titles changing hands by the end of the night. At featherweight, Leigh Wood overcame a weight advantage and the ghosts of a knockout loss just months ago to regain the WBA featherweight belt from Maurico ...
Fight fans get a double dose of title action on June 9th with belts on the line at Liverpool’s Olympia, and with all the action broadcast live on Fightzone, and on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport app and website. Headlining on the night will be local man Connor Butler defending his Commonwealth flyweight crown against Matt Windle, with the ...
Devin Haney screamed at the top of his lungs as his father hoisted him in the air. For the 24-year-old, he knew good and well that, while he held all of the major hardware in the lightweight division, a victory over Vasiliy Lomachenko, was salient to his career moving forward. Two weeks ago, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, ...
Former two division world champion Carl Frampton was very impressed with the recent performance by Luis Alberto Lopez. This past Saturday night at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Lopez retained the IBF featherweight world title with a fifth round knockout of Irish Olympian Michael Conlan. Lopez was coming off an impressive win over Josh Warrington, with the Mexican fighter traveling ...
All of a sudden, Teddy Atlas has been around a while. He was a protégé of Cus D’Amato. He worked with a teenage Mike Tyson. He gave memorable corner speeches. He provided the soundtrack to a generation of fans on Friday Night Fights. And these days, he’s morphed into the senior conscience of a tortured sport. Now 66 years old, ...
Former three division champion Shane Mosley is slightly leaning in the direction of Terence Crawford in the upcoming undisputed showdown with Errol Spence. On July 29th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the two undefeated welterweights will collide for the WBC, IBF, WBA, WBO world titles in the main event of a Showtime Pay-Per-View card. Crawford has been more ...
Irish Olympian Michael Conlan will take the proper time to determine his future in the sport. This past Saturday night in Belfast, Conlan was knocked out in five rounds by IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez at the SSE Arena. It was Conlan's second attempt at a world title. Last year, he was knocked out in the twelfth round ...
Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch is not paying too much attention on Tyson Fury's recent callout of Anthony Joshua. Last Friday, the WBC heavyweight champion took to social media and advised his followers that a contract was sent to Joshua for a September fight at Wembley Stadium in London. Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, would deny that a contract was ...
Newly crowned WBO cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith was prepared for the mind games of Lawrence Okolie. This past Saturday night in Bournemouth, Billam-Smith pulled off a shocker when he dropped Okolie three times and secured a twelve round decision win to capture the WBO title. The home crowd of 15,000 at Vitality Stadium erupted when the outcome was announced. Billam-Smith, although ...
Junior welterweight contender Ismael Barroso is hoping for justice after his controversial stoppage loss at the hands of Rolando "Rolly" Romero, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas. The victory gave Romero the vacant WBA world title. During the fight, Romero had a lot of issues dealing with the punching power of Barroso, who scored a knockdown early ...