Jermell has not ruled out a return to the junior middleweight division or an eventual showdown with Tim Tszyu. Neither are a priority, or even a motivational factor at the moment. “I know Tim Tszyu was my [mandatory] challenger. But he does nothing for my career,” Charlo insisted to Showtime’s Brian Custer when asked of the decision to move up ...
Rizin FF crowned two new champions at the Saitama Super Arena as Azerbaijan’s Vugar Karamov and America’s Juan Archuleta captured the promotion’s vacant championships at featherweight and bantamweight, respectively, at Super Rizin 2. The event, which dovetailed with the Bellator vs. Rizin 2 card held on the same night in the same venue, saw two of Rizin’s fan-favorite fighters lose ...
Former Bellator lightweight champion Patricky Pitbull took his late-notice opponent change in his stride, then chopped down his new foe to progress to the semi-finals of the Bellator Lightweight World Grand Prix. Pitbull was due to face AJ McKee in a quarter-final bout at the Bellator vs. Rizin 2 event in Saitama, but after an infection ruled “The Mercenary” out ...
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas - In a long-awaited welterweight showdown for the WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA world titles, Terence Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) dropped Errol Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) three times and beat him down for a stoppage in the ninth to become undisputed. (photos by Esther Lin, Ryan Hafey) The fight began with Crawford fighting as a southpaw. Both ...
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas - In a junior middleweight contest, Yoenis Tellez (6-0, 5 KOs) made a statement by stopping Sergio Garcia (34-3, 14 KOs) in the third round. (photos by Ryan Hafey) Garcia came out pressing the action and being very aggressive to impose his will on the young prospect. Tellez was using accurate punching when the openings were ...
Errol Spence Post-Fight Video - Video By Ryan Burton - Undefeated three-division champion Terence “Bud” Crawford emphatically stamped his place in the history books with a ninth-round TKO over the previously unbeaten Errol “The Truth” Spence Jr. to become the first undisputed welterweight champion of the four-belt era in the SHOWTIME PPV main event Saturday night from T-Mobile Arena in ...
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas - In a long-awaited welterweight showdown for the WBO, IBF, WBC, WBA world titles, Terence Crawford (40-0, 31 KOs) dropped Errol Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) three times and beat him down for a stoppage in the ninth to become undisputed. Spence was down from a hard jab at the end of the second. In the seventh, ...
Justin Gaethje produced a moment of magic to knock out Dustin Poirier and capture the BMF title in the main event of UFC 291 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The two former interim lightweight champions went head to head in a rematch of their first meeting back in 2018 that Poirier won via fourth-round TKO, but it was Gaethje who ...
LAS VEGAS – Terence Crawford proved Saturday night what he has assured an army of doubters for five-plus years, that he is indisputably the best welterweight in boxing. Crawford dominated Errol Spence Jr., dropped him three times and knocked out the previously undefeated former champion in the ninth round of a Showtime Pay-Per-View main event at T-Mobile Arena. Referee Harvey ...
LAS VEGAS – Alexandro Santiago fulfilled his own bantamweight championship dream Saturday night. The 27-year-old Mexican came back from some troublesome moments early against legendary five-division champion Nonito Donaire, won a unanimous decision and left the ring with the previously unclaimed WBC bantamweight title. Tijuana’s Santiago cried after Showtime’s Jimmy Lennon Jr. announced that judges Max De Luca (115-113), Chris ...