Teofimo Lopez Jr. offered a few more details motivating his decision to retire from boxing. The former unified lightweight champion and recently crowned junior welterweight titlist announced his retirement several weeks ago upon defeating Josh Taylor at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Speculation abounded online that Lopez’s talk of retirement was a strategic move in ...
The Rolando Romero-Ohara Davies WBA junior welterweight title fight will head to a purse bid hearing. BoxingScene.com has learned that the ordered 30-day negotiation period between parties ended without a deal being reached. The two sides had until June 29 to come to an agreement for their mandatory title fight but no real progress was made, which has forced the ...
Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson (14-0, 14 KOs) will fight former world champion “Prince” Charles Martin (29-3-1, 26 KOs) in the 10-round main event at Toledo’s Huntington Center. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round heavyweight co-feature, Montreal-based wrecking ball Arslanbek Makhmudov (16-0, 15 KOs) takes on Nigeria’s Raphael Akpejiori (15-0, 14 KOs). Anderson-Martin and Makhmudov-Akpejiori will be broadcast ...
The official weigh-ins for UFC Vegas 76 took place Friday at the UFC Apex, and it proved to be a session that the fighters wanted to get over with as swiftly as possible. All 24 fighters successfully hit their contracted weights ahead of the event, which takes place Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, with main eventers ...
Jared Anderson and Charles Martin arrived lighter than was the case in each of their previous bouts. Toledo’s Anderson tipped the scales at a fighting fit 243.4 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in as supervised by the Ohio Athletic Commission for his first homecoming and televised main event. The rising knockout artist will meet former IBF heavyweight titlist Charles Martin, who was ...
Alexander Volkanovski is the epitome of a fighting champion, and the Australian proved that fact once again when chatting about his likely options moving forward in the UFC’s featherweight division. Defending champion Volkanovski will look to unify the UFC’s featherweight titles when he faces interim champ Yair Rodriguez at UFC 290 on July 8 in Las Vegas. And, the topic ...
The main beneficiary of the PFL’s recent controversial decision to suspend Natan Schulte and Raush Manfio has given his opinion on the situation, and admitted that he has sympathy for Schulte, whose playoff spot Burgos has just inherited. Schulte and Manfio faced off at PFL 6 as the lightweight regular season came to a close in Atlanta last week. The ...
Raphael Akpejiori admitted the fight he has in store this weekend is—on paper—his toughest test to date. He couldn’t help but speculate about an even tougher challenge down the road while the star of this weekend’s show was in his presence. Two heavyweight fights bookend a three-fight ESPN telecast this Saturday from Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio. Nigeria’s Akpejiori ...
The fighters set for action at Cage Warriors 156 in Cardiff, Wales took to the scale at the official weigh-ins in the Welsh capital on Friday, with the nine-fight card locked and loaded for Saturday night’s event. Middleweight contenders will meet in the main event, as former champion Matt Bonner and UFC veteran Darren Stewart both making weight with ease ...
Dalton Smith remained a model of consistency at the scales. The unbeaten 26-year-old prospect was a fighting fit 139.4 pounds, within the tight weight range for his last eight fights and ahead of his hometown headliner. Sam Maxwell was also 139.4 pounds for their regional title fight Saturday on DAZN from Utilita Arena in Smith’s hometown of Sheffield, England. Smith ...