Liverpool amateur sensation turned 7-0 (5 KOs) super bantamweight prospect Peter McGrail will fight for his first professional title on Saturday October 21 when he faces unbeaten Colombian Fran Mendoza for the vacant WBA Continental Title on the undercard of Jack Catterall’s Super-Lightweight clash with multi-weight World Champion Jorge Linares at the M&S Bank Arena, shown live worldwide on DAZN. ...
Ernesto 'Tito' Mercado isn’t breathing heavy, but you can’t miss the sound of footsteps as he conducts an interview five days before his Saturday bout against Carlos Manuel Portillo. “Are you doing roadwork,” I ask. “Yeah, a little bit,” he laughs. “Always working.” At the time, he was already six miles into his run, with two to go. Call it ...
The International Boxing Association (IBA) has secured its budget for the upcoming 4-year cycle that allows the organization to have no barriers towards implementing all ambitious projects planned. This includes IBA’s events portfolio, prize money fund, Financial Support Program (FSP) and various development initiatives. The IBA continues to work with five Confederations, nearly 200 National Federations and thousands of ...
Unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is not expecting a competitive fight when WBC champion Tyson Fury collides with Francis Ngannou. Ngannou, a former UFC champion, will face Fury in a non-title fight on October 28 in Saudi Arabia. Usyk has been highly critical of Fury's decision to go in this direction. "I think it's easy money for Tyson Fury," Usyk ...
Heavyweight contender Otto Wallin expects a solid contest when Oleksandr Usyk defends the IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight belts against mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois. Usyk and Dubois will collide on Saturday night in Poland. “I think it's a good fight. It's nice for Usyk to fight in Poland. Next to Ukraine. It will probably be nice for him to have ...
Jermell Charlo did all of the leg work needed to become an undisputed champion. He violently stopped Tony Harrison in their rematch, used a body shot to get rid of Jeison Rosario, and KO’d Brian Castano after being forced to settle for a majority decision draw the first time around. (photo by Ryan Hafey) The 154-pound division was essentially cleaned ...
27-year-old Eumir Felix Marcial, the Philippines' 2020 middleweight Olympic bronze medalist, declared today that he would be putting his professional career on temporary hold to join the Philippine National Boxing Team training camp in Canberra, Australia and focus fulltime on pursuing his dream of winning a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A native of Zamboanga City, Marcial ...
The fighters set for action in the PFL’s lightweight and welterweight semi-finals locked in their respective bouts after taking to the scale for the official weigh-ins ahead of Wednesday night’s fight night in New York City. The Theater at Madison Square Garden will play host to the event, which will be headlined by a lightweight semi-final between striking specialists as ...
Subriel Matias and Shohjahon Ergashev can now move forward with their long-ago ordered clash. TGB Promotions—on behalf of Premier Boxing Champions (PBC)—secured promotional rights to the mandatory IBF junior welterweight title fight with a $510,000 offer during Tuesday’s purse bid hearing. The amount surpassed that of Salita Promotions, Ergashev’s promoter who posted $225,000 in an effort to land the attractive ...
Former Brave CF lightweight champion Lucas Martins will return to the Brave CF cage after more than a year, and already the Brazilian has intimated his plans after calling out the promotion’s current undisputed champion Abdisalam Kubanychbek on social media. Martins will face France’s Ylies Djiroun on September 7 in Nantes, France, in the main event of Brave CF 74 ...