Cedric Doumbe, the former Glory welterweight kickboxing champion, is now officially a PFL fighter. The Cameroonian striker, who has 75 kickboxing victories and 45 knockouts to his name, has put pen to paper on a contract to join the PFL’s global roster. It’s the latest acquisition by the innovative promotion, which crowns million-dollar champions each year as part of their ...
The UFC has lined up two big championship fights, plus a title eliminator, as the promotion officially unveiled its main card lineup for UFC 290. The event, which takes place at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday, July 8, forms the main attraction of UFC International Fight Week as the promotion’s annual week-long jamboree of combat sports festivities take place in Las ...
England’s best hope for UFC heavyweight gold returns to action on home soil on July 22. One day short of a year since he tore knee ligaments against Curtis Blaydes at The O2 Arena, Tom Aspinall will make his return to the Octagon in the main event of UFC London on Saturday, July 22. Aspinall will take on Polish contender ...
Former super middleweight world champion Carl Froch believes Mexican superstar Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez is now beyond his best days. Canelo, the undisputed champion at 168-pounds, returned to the ring last Saturday night and won a twelve round unanimous decision over mandatory challenger John Ryder. It was a competitive fight that many had expected to end inside the distance, but Ryder ...
The WBA has rendered Alberto Puello its super lightweight champion in recess as it attempts to resolve his status with the Nevada State Athletic Commission. BoxingScene.com confirmed Wednesday that the WBA changed Puello’s championship status for failing a performance-enhancing drug test last month. The WBA consequently has sanctioned the 12-round bout between Rolando “Rolly” Romero and Ismael Barroso for its ...
The Cage Warriors flyweight title will be on the line when the promotion returns to Italy later this summer. Cage Warriors 158 will take place Saturday, July 29 at Fiera Roma, Rome, with a champion-versus-champion clash set to top the fight card. The main event will see the promotion’s bantamweight champion, Italy’s Michele Martignoni, drop down a division to challenge ...
Once overlooked, the lightweight division has morphed into one of the most exciting weight classes around. In the previous and coming weeks, the talent-riched division placed its top guns on display. To kick things off, Shakur Stevenson successfully abandoned his super featherweight throne and headed for greener pastures. On April 8th, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, the ...
Mexican Super-Featherweight talent Eduardo Nunez has signed a long-term promotional deal with Eddie Hearn and Matchroom. Nunez (24-1 24 KOs) has dispatched all of his victims inside the distance to date, and the hard-hitting 26 year old is banging on the door of the World champions sitting in the top five in the IBF rankings where his new stablemate Joe ...
Junior middleweight Tim Tszyu has made good on his promise to stay busy. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, Tszyu will make a defense of the interim-WBO junior middleweight title against Carlos Ocampo on June 18 in Queensland, Australia. Tszyu was in action back in March, when he picked up one of his biggest career wins with a stoppage over Tony Harrison. ...
Eddie Hearn knew he needed to shore up his long moribund standing in the hot 140-pound division. With the announcement this past weekend that his company, Matchroom, signed Regis Prograis, the WBC champion, to a multi-fight promotional deal, Hearn has seemingly taken a significant step in trying to compete in one of boxing's more alluring weight classes. Indeed, in a ...