Adrien Broner ended a two-plus year layoff with his latest victory and is now ready to end another drought. The former four-division titlist returned to the ring with a lopsided victory over Bill Hutchinson for his first fight since February 2021. Despite the ten-round bout taking place at welterweight, Broner will set his sights on the 140-pound junior welterweight division, ...
The interim light heavyweight title will be up for grabs in Oberhausen as Oktagon 44 takes place on Saturday, June 17. The event will see Germany’s Alexander Poppeck take on Slovakia’s Pavol Langer for the vacant interim title, with the winner set to head home with a shiny new belt, and a future shot at the promotion’s light heavyweight champion, ...
The first-ever Olympic athlete to fight for Brave CF, Mahmoud Sebie, has shared how his mixed martial arts journey has re-ignited his passion for competition, as he prepares to get back into it when he takes on Oussema Zeidi in a super lightweight bout next week at Brave CF 71 in Bahrain. “The Prince of Egypt” has reached the highest ...
Eddie Hearn is already eying a unification clash for his newest world champion Ellie Scotney. The 25-year-old from Catford won the IBF super bantamweight title by dethroning Cherneka Johnson at Wembley Arena on Saturday night. Given that Scotney was the mandatory challenger for the title, there are no rematch obligations and Hearn told BoxingScene.com they will not be looking for ...
Liverpool’s Tim Barnett made his name on the UK scene fighting for the likes of Bellator, Cage Warriors and BAMMA but we haven’t seen him in action since he fell to back-to-back losses in 2019. Now Barnett is back, with the likes of Liam McCracken, Marlon Jones, Callum and Tom Mullen, and Muhammad Mokaev in his team, and he’s ready ...
ONE Championship’s latest Fight Night offering from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, served up a smorgasbord of martial arts excellence, as two of the promotion’s world champions retained their titles. In the main event, reigning lightweight Muay Thai and kickboxing champion Regian Eersel showcased his elite striking skills as he finished Russian challenger Dmitry Menshikov in just 46 seconds of ...
Teofimo Lopez Jr. is apparently thinking about taking a hiatus from boxing. Shortly after defeating Scotland's Josh Taylor by unanimous decision Saturday night at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City to become the WBO 140-pound titlist, Lopez told ringside reporters that he needs “to take a break” from the sport. Lopez then suggested he was not ...
Norwegian featherweight Bernard Torres (18-1) headlined Norway Box Promotion's show at the Chateau Neuf on June 9 and scored an important win as he outscored Tanzanian veteran Nasibu Ramadhani (33-18-2) over ten. Torres is ranked # 7 by the EBU but most of the fighters above him are occupied with other plans which means that a shot at the title ...
It’s hard not to root for Sergey Derevyanchenko. Although the sport of boxing is a business—it’s prizefighting, after all—there is an idyllic world observers can slip into from time to time in which fighters are fighting only for causes bigger than themselves, often the nebulous “legacy,” even if it’s at the expense of financial gain. In this world, fighters take ...
Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. - In the ShoBox telecast opener on Friday night, Australia’s Clay Waterman (11-0, 8 KOs) overcame a slow first-round start in his United States debut, effectively using his body punches in a unanimous decision victory over Kenmon Evans (10-1-1, 3 KOs). The scores were 77-75 and 78-74 twice all in favor of Waterman ...