WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been hunting for a possible opponent - and it hasn't been easy. Fury has been out of the ring since last December, when he battered and stopped Derek Chisora in their trilogy fight. Earlier this year, Fury tried to finalize an undisputed fight with WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. The two sides ...
Usually, Teofimo Lopez is very judicious about his punch output, but in this fight, he averaged 43 punches thrown per round to Josh Taylor’s 23. Lopez averaged 13 landed punches per round, almost doubling up Taylor’s average of 7 per round. Lopez achieved double-digits punches landed in 11 of 12 rounds while Taylor only achieved double-digits in two rounds. In ...
Ontario, California - In a super middleweight showdown, Jaime Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) overcame near disaster and had to dig deeper than every to win a razor-thin twelve round unanimous decision over Sergiy Derevyanchenko (14-5, 10 KOs) The scores were 115-112, 114-113 and 114-113. It didn't take long before they were trading bombs in the first round. It was fireworks with Munguia ...
The movie "Barbie" premieres in the United States on July 21, so fans Saturday night had to settle for the second-best iteration, even though it was boxing's edgy, past-her-prime version. Former two-division world champion Mariana "Barbie" Juarez returned for her first stateside fight since 2012, but ended on the wrong side of a beating, as Mayeli Flores dominated Juarez to ...
NEW YORK – Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington recorded another victory Saturday night at the venue where he hopes to headline in the foreseeable future. The undefeated featherweight from Brooklyn basically beat up Ecuadorian veteran Luis Porozo until the eighth and final round, when referee Shawn Clark had seen enough. Clark stepped between Carrington and Porozo after Carrington cracked him with ...
Josh Taylor considers Regis Prograis the second-best fighter in the 140-pound division. The unbeaten WBO junior welterweight champion would welcome a rematch with Prograis at some point. The Scottish southpaw just can’t understand why Prograis didn’t sign with Taylor’s promoter, Top Rank Inc., if Prograis expects an opportunity to avenge his lone loss sooner than later. If the slightly favored ...
CHEAVON CLARKE passed the toughest test of his career to date with flying colours as he dropped and stopped David Jamieson inside five vicious rounds. The cruiserweight prospect, who boxed at the Tokyo Olympics, has enjoyed a serene start to his professional career but it was suggested that Jamieson could provide him with something to think about. But Clarke produced ...
Shane Mosley Jr. has won back-to-back bouts at the super middleweight limit of 168 pounds since he lost a 10-round majority decision to Jason Quigley in a middleweight match two years ago. Mosley considers himself a middleweight, though, which is why he’ll meet D’Mitrius Ballard in another 10-round, 160-pound fight Saturday night at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California. If Mosley ...
Josh Taylor is confident that his preparation for his fight against Teofimo Lopez has been so superior to how he trained for his previous bout that it could lead to a quick knockout victory Saturday night. Taylor predicted just that Thursday during their final press conference at Madison Square Garden in New York. “A Josh Taylor win, that’s all,” Taylor ...
Jaime Munguia realizes he doesn’t have a soft touch for his next fight when he takes on Sergiy Derevyanchenko on June 10 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, Calif. headlining a Golden Boy Promotions event on DAZN. After uninspiring wins last year against the triad of Gonzalo Coria, Jimmy Kelly, and D'Mitrius Ballard, the 26-year-old Tijuana native will take on ...