Cage Warriors’ upcoming event in London has been further strengthened by the addition of one of the promotion’s biggest stars. Jordan Vucenic is the former Cage Warriors featherweight champion, and a huge fan-favorite with the promotion. The Corby native always brings an army of fans to his fights, and the Indigo at The O2 is set to be packed with ...
Amer Abdallah, of promotional company Skill Challenge Entertainment of Saudi Arabia, indicates that a lucrative offer is going to be presented to WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. Abdallah's company recently signed WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. Earlier in the year, Fury and Usyk were in serious negotiations to finalize an undisputed fight for a date in April ...
This Saturday on Showtime (11:30 PM ET), two of the best in two of the sport’s most intriguing weight classes will do what they do every time they step in the ring. They’ll try to win. They’ll be doing so at a moment when losing might sting worse than normal. For Jr. middleweight Tim Tszyu (22-0, 16 KO) and Jr. ...
Jai Opetaia has a new ordered challenger for the first defense of his cruiserweight championship reign. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the IBF has canceled a purse bid hearing previously scheduled for Thursday, after the sanctioning body was informed that Poland’s Mateusz Masternak will no longer go forward with his mandatory title challenge. Sydney’s Opetaia is now instructed to next face ...
French Y12 was the sole bidder at the purse bids for EBU super middleweight champ Kevin Lele Sadjo's mandatory defense of the title against Giovanni De Carolis. Y12 bid 87,8700 Euro to be split 60-40 in the favor of the champion. Date and site is to be announced. De Carolis (31-10-1) will first go through with his own promotion in ...
Terence Crawford is sticking to his promise to turn the biggest fight of his career into a fish fry. The play on words in reference to the ‘Big Shark’ marketing campaign adopted by Errol Spence Jr., whose WBA, WBC and IBF welterweight titles will be at stake along with Crawford’s WBO belt in their forthcoming undisputed championship. The unbeaten three-division ...
Undefeated boxing superstars and pound-for-pound greats Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. and Terence “Bud” Crawford verbally sparred and provoked the other with sharp and sometimes comical one-liners during a lively press conference Wednesday in New York to preview their clash for the undisputed welterweight championship on Saturday, July 29 in a SHOWTIME PPV (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) from T-Mobile ...
Gennadiy Golovkin has officially vacated the only world title left around his waist - the IBO middleweight belt. At 41-years-old, Golovkin's future in the sport is unknown. Golovkin saw action twice in 2022. In April of that year, he traveled to Japan to pick up a stoppage win over Ryota Murata in nine rounds to unify the WBA, IBF, IBO ...
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman expressed that it is painful for him every time that he gets asked about how WBA 175-pound champion Dmitry Bivol is affected by the WBC’s refusal to sanction contests involving Russian fighters. Because of Russian's ongoing war with neighboring country Ukraine, the WBC has refused to sanction any contests involving Russian or Belarus boxers ...
Undefeated Australian superstar Tim Tszyu will return to the ring and defend his Interim WBO 154-pound title against Mexican contender Carlos Ocampo headlining action live on SHOWTIME on Saturday, June 17 (Sunday, June 18 in Australia) from the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Broadbeach, Queensland, Australia in a Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Matt Roberts) The SHOWTIME ...