Terence Crawford simply enjoys living in the moment. At times, he does kick his feet up and reminisces about how far he’s come in his career. As the now 35-year-old strolls through his palatial estate, he trips over the countless world titles that are littered in just about every room. In addition to the proliferation of championship trinkets in Crawford’s ...
Undisputed super middleweight world champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn puts her titles on the line against former WBO middleweight world champion Savannah Marshall this Saturday at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. In the 10-round co-feature, unified junior middleweight world champion Natasha Jonas takes on former two-time title challenger Kandi Wyatt for the vacant IBF welterweight crown. Promoted by BOXXER, Crews Dezurn-Marshall, Jonas-Wyatt ...
On August 12, WBO junior lightweight world champion Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete will face former two-division world champion Oscar Valdez at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. U.S. Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. will open the televised tripleheader in a six-round heavyweight tilt against Willie Jake Jr. The bout was initially scheduled for March, but Torrez tore his oblique in ...
Unified junior middleweight champion Natasha Jonas was willing to stick around at 154-pounds, but she was unable to secure a showdown with pound-for-pound opponent Claressa Shields. Last year, Jonas moved up in weight by several weight divisions to capture three world titles, in three fights, at junior middleweight. On Saturday, she will drop down in weight to face Kandi Wyatt ...
Former two division champion Ricky Hatton is scratching is head at the ongoing discussions to make a rematch between heavyweight rivals Anthony Joshua and Dillian Whyte. Joshua is being positioned to return to the ring in the month of August, with a potential fight against Deontay Wilder eyed for December in Saudi Arabia. Eddie Hearn, promoter of Joshua, stated in ...
Dmitry Bivol apparently has a low opinion of Canelo Alvarez’s bargaining maneuvers. The WBA light heavyweight titlist from Russia criticized the Mexican superstar for seemingly employing “bait and switches” and demanding unreasonable catchweights. Bivol was expected to face Alvarez, the undisputed 168-pound champion, last this fall in a rematch of their fight last year, which Bivol won by unanimous decision. ...
Joshua Franco may or may not have left his best chance to win in the gym, as evidenced by his inability to come in within even a weight class of defending his WBA belt at 115 pounds. He moved his hands like a man in pretty good shape. Kazuto Ioka beat the man in front of him, and did it ...
Former welterweight champion Shawn Porter views a potential showdown between Gervonta 'Tank' Davis and Shakur Stevenson as the best possible fight to be made in the sport of boxing. Davis was in action back in April, when he picked up one of the biggest wins of his career with a seventh round knockout of Ryan Garcia in a major pay-per-view ...
Undefeated heavyweight puncher Arslanbek Makhmudov would love to get in the ring with former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua. During his amateur days, Makhmudov defeated Mihai Nistor and Mahammadrasul Majidov - with both foes holding amateur wins over Joshua. "I'd like to fight with Joshua," Makhmudov told Sky Sports. "Maybe it gives me some advantage of course. It's interesting. How ...
It’s official. The Tuesday morning countdown is on. The latest in a decades-long line of transcendent events in the welterweight division is 32 days away. Three-belt champ Errol Spence Jr. will, at last, face WBO-endorsed foil Terence Crawford in a 12-round title unification bout that’ll go down at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on July 29. The two have ...