The PFL’s 2022 featherweight champion Brendan Loughnane will take center stage when the promotion resumes its regular season schedule in Atlanta, Georgia in June. The second half of the PFL’s regular season will all be held at Atlanta’s Overtime Elite Arena, with Loughnane set to play a starring role as the featherweights and light heavyweights return to action for their ...
KSW’s stadium super-show, KSW Colosseum 2, has bolstered its fight card with the addition of three championship bouts as the Polish promotion stacks the deck for June 3. Headlining the event is the already-announced trilogy clash between former middleweight champions Mamed Khalidov and Scott Askham, while heavyweight icon and five-time World’s Stongest Man Mariusz Pudzianowski takes on former WBC heavyweight ...
British middleweight Chris Eubank Jr. is disgusted by the recent spate of fighters testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances in his country. Last year, Conor Benn tested positive twice for clomifene, a drug used to treat infertility but, when used by men, boosts testosterone levels. The discovery of the second of the two tests led to the cancellation of the ...
Rising lightweight contender Frank Martin would love to get in the ring with WBA 'regular' champion Gervonta Davis. Martin was in action back in December, when he dropped and decisioned Michel Rivera in a battle of unbeatens. Last month at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Davis returned to the ring and picked up a tremendous win with a seventh ...
John Ryder will wake up this morning in Guadalajara. The 34-year-old Englishman who’s been paid for punching for the last 13 years is just four days short of the biggest opportunity of his career, deep in the home territory of his imminent opponent. It’s a guy you might have heard of. Goes by the name of Canelo Alvarez. The Mexican ...
Middleweight contender Connor Coyle remained unbeaten Saturday night, defeating late-sub Cristian Rios by decision over 10 one-sided rounds at the Hilton Carillon in Saint Petersburg, Florida. All three judges scored the bout 100-90 in favor of Coyle, who improved to 19-0, 8 knockouts. Coyle was the busier and more-effective fighter, utilizing accurate combinations to the head and body of Rios. ...
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson admits that he could be persuaded to have another exhibition fight. Tyson, who retired from the sport in 2005, returned to the ring in 2020 to have an exhibition clash with former four division champion Roy Jones Jr. The contest ended in an eight round split draw, but the pay-per-view generated over 1 million ...
Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker is expected current WBC champion Tyson Fury to support him at ringside later this month. On May 24, Parker will be headlining a card in Melbourne, Australia. The fight card will feature unbeaten prospect Nikita Tszyu and the professional heavyweight debut of AFL star Cameron Mooney. Parker will take on Faiga ‘Django’ Opelu for the ...
Olympian Michael Conlan will be ready for war when he faces IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez on May 27 at the SSE Arena in Belfast. Last year, Conlan challenged Leigh Wood for the WBA featherweight strap. The Irish boxer dropped Wood hard in the first round and rocked him several times in the first half of the fight. ...
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson agrees with the opinion that Gervonta "Tank" Davis is the new "face of boxing." Last month, Davis picked up his most high profile win when he knocked out Ryan Garcia in seven rounds. The Showtime Pay-Per-View generated a smashing 1.2 million buys, with a gate of $22 million at the T-Mobile Arena in Las ...