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. 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 present, but Garcia was throwing ...
A spectacular night at Stvanice came to an anticlimactic conclusion as Losene Keita suffered a fight-ending leg injury one minute into his title unification bout with featherweight champ Mate Sanikidze at Oktagon 45 in Prague. Keita’s quest to capture the unified Oktagon featherweight title came to a premature and unfortunate end on night 2 of the promotion’s double-header as injury ...
LIAM DAVIES roared to the finest win of his career, blowing away Jason Cunningham inside a round in his hometown of Telford. Davies had promised a career-best performance and he was in a rush to prove himself right as he caught vastly experienced Cunningham cold and applied a finish after just 2:36 of the first. At the end of the ...
Cage Warriors flyweight champion Shaj Haque produced a superb display of footwork, counter-striking, and conditioning as he outworked former bantamweight champion Michele Martignoni in the main event of Cage Warriors 158 in Rome, Italy. Haque used his unique blend of movement, conditioning, and fight IQ to defeat the uber-aggressive Martignoni vy unanimous decision with scores of 49-46, 49-46, 48-47 seeing ...
Finally. The megafight between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford has finally arrived. The fight took years to make, but both men will finally step inside the ring tonight at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 12-round bout will air live on Showtime Championship Boxing Pay-Per-View (8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT). At Friday’s weigh-in, Spence weighed in at ...
Three-division champion Terence Crawford will finally fight Errol Spence Jr. on Saturday night for the undisputed welterweight title in a bout that is more than five years in the making. The mega matchup took nearly a half decade to make because Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) was tied to Top Rank and Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) was tied to Al Haymon’s ...
Both Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford have little to prove at this point. Essentially, outside of a few up-comers, the two have cleared out the welterweight division. With the pair being viewed as the best fighters at 147 pounds, it was only right that they face off. Their fight contract is constructed as such that it’s likely that they’ll ...
Salt Lake City, Utah plays host to UFC 291, as the promotion’s BMF title returns with a fight that looks set to deliver another Octagon classic. Former UFC interim lightweight champions Dustin Poirier and Justin Gaethje will face off in a huge rematch for the returning symbolic BMF belt, with the two fan-favorites set to throw down in a five-round ...
Terence Crawford has listened to Errol Spence Jr. pick apart his resume throughout the buildup toward their tantalizing welterweight showdown Saturday night in Las Vegas. Crawford countered during a recent virtual press conference by pointing out that Spence primarily has beaten fighters who had already lost while ascending to the top of the 147-pound division. Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) has ...
It’s a big fight week. And yes, it’s a big welterweight fight. For the umpteenth time in my 46-year run as a fan, the 147-pounders are taking their turns on the sport’s center stage – this time with a unification bout matching Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford. The combatants are a pristine 67-0 with 52 KOs between them, not ...