GLENDALE, Arizona — The previous visit to this venue saw Emanuel Navarrete overcome the first knockdown of his career. This time around, he merely had to push past discomfort in his hand in the toughest fight of his career. The three-division and reigning WBO junior lightweight titlist doesn’t expect to miss a beat after he suffered an inflamed knuckle of ...
Anthony Joshua wasn’t interested Saturday night in comparing what would’ve happened had he fought Deontay Wilder when they were undefeated world champions as opposed to them meeting later this year. The 33-year-old Joshua just wanted to focus on the fact that they could finally fight next. Both the former IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, emphasized following his ...
Emmanuel Rodriguez became a two-time IBF bantamweight champion Saturday night, securing a unanimous decision over Melvin Lopez in headlining action live on Showtime from The Theater at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Rodriguez (22-2, 13 KOs) sustained swelling over his right eye in the second round of the 12-round battle, and even though the eye ballooned as the fight wore ...
Let the record show that a scrappy little kid that nobody believed in from Omaha, Nebraska, made it. On Saturday morning, in downtown Omaha, the city held a victory parade for its native son, Terence Crawford, on the occasion of his career-defining, ninth-round knockout over Errol Spence Jr. two weeks ago in Las Vegas to become the undisputed welterweight champion. ...
O2 Arena, London - Former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (26-3, 23 KOs) took his time and scored a brutal one-punch knockout of late replacement Robert Helenius (32-5, 21 KOs) in the seventh round. (photos by Mark Robinson) Joshua was initially scheduled to face Dillian Whyte in a rematch. Last Saturday, it was announced that Whyte was being pulled from ...
O2 Arena, London - In a heavyweight bout, Derek Chisora (34-13, 23 KOs) worked his way to a ten round unanimous decision over Gerald Washington (20-6-1, 13 KOs). (photos by Mark Robinson) The scores are 98-93, 97-94 and 96-94 for Chisora. The contest was the first for Chisora since getting battered and stopped by WBC champion Tyson Fury in December ...
Jesse Rodriguez and Sunny Edwards, who collide at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday December 16, are promising fireworks. The unbeaten pair meet in a long-awaited battle to determine the top dog in the division, with WBO ruler Rodriguez and IBF king Edwards defending their titles for the first and fourth times respectively and both appearing in ...
For the second time in his career, former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua had to deal with a late replacement when his original opponent was pulled after testing positive for a banned substance. Back in 2019, Joshua was scheduled to face Jarrell Miller at New York's Madison Square Garden. Miller was pulled from the fight after testing positive for several ...
Emanuel Navarrete and Oscar Valdez went to war in Arizona. The volume of Navarrete was too much for Valdez in the end. Navarrete was 216 of 1038, 21% compared to 140 of 436, 32% for Valdez in total punches. In power punches, Navarrete went 176 of 604, 29% and Valdez was 114 of 318, 36%. Scores were 119-109, 118-110 and ...
In the main event, three-division world champion Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete will defend his WBO junior lightweight world title against former two-division world champion Oscar Valdez. >>>>CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE SCORECARD<<<< Navarrete (37-1, 31 KOs), the fighting pride of San Juan Zitlaltepec, Mexico, captured the WBO junior featherweight world title by defeating Isaac Dogboe in December 2018. After five defenses, ...