It’s a big fight week in London, England, with the UFC coming to The O2 Arena on Saturday night, and Cage Warriors hosting their now-traditional weekend opener at the Indigo at The O2 on Friday night. Cage Warriors 157 will feature a middleweight championship main event, as newly-crowned champion Mick Stanton will take on former foe, and former 185-pound champ, ...
Samuel Antwi and Mason Cartwright collide in a battle for the vacant British super welterweight title on September 1, live and free-to-air on Channel 5. The pair meet at the University of Bolton Stadium, on the undercard of Lyndon Arthur’s IBO world light heavyweight title showdown with the big-punching Braian Suarez. Antwi, who has signed a promotional deal with Wasserman ...
Anthony Joshua wishes he had linked up with veteran trainer Derrick James much earlier in his career. The former heavyweight titlist from London recently opened up about his time so far with Dallas, Texas-based James, while offering some critical remarks on his former trainers, particularly his longtime coach Robert McCracken. Joshua, 33, praised McCracken but claimed that the head of ...
A week out from his ninth professional fight, Keyshawn Davis finds himself in the middle, and at the forefront of a lot of different conversations. Training in Colorado Springs, his old Olympic stomping grounds, the silver medalist works alongside Terence Crawford, as Crawford prepares for his highly anticipated clash with Errol Spence Jr. The two share a trainer, Brian “BoMac” ...
The International Boxing Association's (IBA) Board of Directors convened on Saturday in Phuket, Thailand, revealing the new strategic approach and an enhanced event portfolio. A significant highlight from the meeting includes the confirmation of China as the host country for this year's International Boxing Day and Global Boxing Forum, to take place on 27 August. The IBA's Board members discussed ...
Marlon Tapales has made clear his intentions to fully unify the junior featherweight division in his next fight. That would mean a fight versus the winner of the Stephen Fulton-Naoya Inoue WBC/WBO title fight, for which he will be ringside to personally issue his challenge. “I want to send a message to the two fighters who will see me ringside,” ...
Errol Spence Jr. has been fighting at welterweight ever since he turned professional in 2012. After campaigning at 135 and 140, Spence’s upcoming opponent Terence Crawford joined the 147-pound division in 2018. For the last five years, Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) and Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) had been inching toward a tantalizing tilt, and it finally will come to fruition ...
Two-division world champion Natasha Jonas is still very much interested in facing unbeaten Claressa Shields. Last year, Jonas moved up in weight by several divisions to capture three world titles at the junior middleweight limit of 154-pounds. At the start of 2023, there were discussions of a Shields vs. Jonas encounter - but the two sides were far apart on ...
Former world champion Emmanuel Rodriguez will take on streaking contender Melvin Lopez for the vacant IBF Bantamweight World Championship headlining action live on Showtime on Saturday, August 12 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. The SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING telecast begins at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT and will see undefeated ...
Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez (34-1) has now won six fights in a row since suffering his only career defeat. His latest victory came on July 7th versus Hector García Montes (20-8-4). The third round knockout took place in Monterrey, Mexico on the undercard of the DAZN streamed card headlined by the Diego Pacheco-Manuel Gallegos super middleweight clash. The 25-year-old Mexican hopes ...