NEW YORK – Tom Brown believes there even is more at stake for Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford than becoming boxing’s first fully unified welterweight champion of the four-belt era. The primary promoter of their 12-round, 147-pound title unification fight next month thinks the winner should also be crowned the sport’s pound-for-pound king. Though the selection process is subjective, ...
Errol Spence Jr. properly credited Terence Crawford as one of boxing’s best pugilists, but he then immediately took exception to Bud’s resume and promised a beatdown when they came face-to-face to promote their long-awaited fight on July 29 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Showtime pay per view. “Terence is a great fighter and I’m gonna break another ...
From the moment Dmitry Bivol’s hand was raised in victory, he’s been on the mind of Canelo Alvarez day and night. Of course initially, the two faced off in May of 2022 with Alvarez opting to move up to the light heavyweight division. That brazen jump, in the end, completely backfired. Though he pushed forward, threw combinations, and tried to ...
Former multi-division world champion Nonito Donaire fully realizes that his career is at stake when he faces Alexandro Santiago for the vacant WBC bantamweight world championship. Their bout takes place on July 15 at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Donaire vs. Santiago is the co-feature of a Showtime televised tripleheader, with the card headlined by a WBC ...
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury made it clear that he doesn't harbor any animosity towards unified world champion Oleksandr Usyk. Earlier in the year, their teams were in serious talks to make an undisputed fight for an April date at Wembley Stadium in London. Usyk had agreed to a 70-30 split in Fury's favor for the first encounter. But, Usyk wanted ...
Ukrainian contender Omar Solomanov picked up the most important victory of his career as he outpointed Kazakhstan’s Ilyar Askhanov after three hard-fought rounds at Brave CF 71 in Riffa, Bahrain. The event, which took place at the National Stadium in Riffa, Bahrain, saw Solomanov and Askhanov go head to head in a fight for the right to challenge for the ...
An upstart in Saudi Arabia continues to beef up its presence in boxing. Their latest gambit could involve contractual rights on one of the biggest heavyweight punchers of the last decade. Deontay Wilder, the former heavyweight titlist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has reportedly agreed to terms with Skill Challenge Promotions, a new promotional entity based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to ...
The Brave CF super-lightweight division has a dangerous new contender in the form of Egypt’s Mahmoud Sebie and, after claiming his latest impressive win, he has called for an interim title fight against his good friend, Joilton Lutterbach. Former Olympic wrestler Sebie opened up the main card of Brave CF 71 in Bahrain, and wasted no time as he ran ...
Former three-time amateur world champion Ramazan Gitinov made his eagerly-anticipated Brave CF debut at Brave CF 71, and got his career with the Bahraini promotion off to a flying start with a quickfire technical submission victory. After a brief feeling-out process, Gitinov snatched up the neck of Errachidy and dropped to the canvas as he applied enough pressure to choke ...
Newly crowned WBO cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith is still waiting to determine his next move. Last month, before a crowd of 15,000 fans in his hometown of Bournemouth, Billam-Smith pulled off one of the year's biggest surprises when he dropped Lawrence Okolie three times to secure a twelve round decision win to capture the WBO belt. Okolie has vowed ...