Cage Warriors are back in the UK with a nine-fight card in Cardiff, Wales set to kick off MMA’s month of July. Saturday, July 1 will see the Vale Sports Arena play host to Cage Warriors 156 as former middleweight champion Matt “The Beast” Bonner takes on former UFC veteran Darren “The Dentist” Stewart in a crucial clash in the ...
Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn has had a cantankerous relationship with peer promoters of late. Top Rank boss Bob Arum has called Hearn a joke. Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe has blasted the Brit for blowing over a billion dollars and failing to build a star in the United States. Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions has consistently ...
Irish star James Gallagher will return to action for the first time since 2021 as he gets set for action at Bellator 298 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Friday, August 11. Gallagher hasn’t competed since his third-round submission loss to Patchy Mix at Bellator 270 in November 2021. That bout was a pivotal clash for both men in Bellator’s ...
Jaime Munguia plans to stay put at 168 and believes David Benavidez is part of that promising future. Just not his immediate future. The unbeaten former WBO junior middleweight titlist appears to be done with middleweight and will now eye a run in the super middleweight division. The decision comes in the wake of his thrilling twelve-round, unanimous decision win ...
Michigan-based heavyweight Robert Simms has set his sights on a rematch against streaking heavyweight Joe Cusumano after Cusumano scored a career-best victory this past Saturday in stopping longtime heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki. Simms bested Cusumano via unanimous decision in 2018 and believes now is the time for a sequel. “Now is the perfect time to rematch Cusumano and really show ...
After hammering his way through Arjan Bhullar this past weekend, Anatoly Malykhin can now call himself the undisputed ONE heavyweight world champion. “Sladkiy” served his returning foe all he could take last Friday, 23rd June, in the main event of ONE Friday Fights 22 card inside Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, and his third-round knockout win marks a new ...
John Gotti III - grandson of organized crime icon John Gotti - says there is no further animosity with five division world champion Floyd Mayweather. Earlier this month in Florida, Mayweather and Gotti collided in an exhibition fight that was showcased on pay-per-view. The contest was waved off in the sixth round, after referee Kenny Bayless had reached his breaking ...
The career of Teofimo Lopez has gone exactly according to plan, despite a few rocky moments. As a youngster, the New York native was considered one of the best up-and-comers around. Although he would have a few uninspiring performances, Lopez was eventually crowned a world champion in 2019 thanks to his second-round drubbing over Richard Commey. A few months later, ...
On July 15, super lightweight contender Elvis Rodriguez will face his most experienced opponent to date when he takes on former world champion Viktor Postol in a ten round showdown. Their fight will be part of a Showtime televised tripleheader from The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The card will be headlined by a lightweight clash between undefeated ...
Canelo Alvarez’s up and down relationship with DAZN is down again after the Mexican star opted to continue his career with a multi-fight deal in order to have his fights staged on PBC pay per views. Nine out of Alvarez’s last ten fights were staged on DAZN, but that honor will now be given to Showtime, which had a five-fight ...