The head of the Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) says the Florida Athletic Commission (FAC) could not find sufficient reason to deny the ring return of drug-offender Conor Benn. Benn, 26, will fight for the first time in 18 months this Saturday in Orlando, Florida, against Rodolfo Orozco on an Eddie Hearn-promoted card headlined by a ...
The fighters are weighed in and ready for Bellator 299 on Saturday night. And, after the official weigh-in session in the morning, the fighters faced off in the afternoon, with tempers threatening to boil over as the main event fighters went nose to nose ahead of fight night. Reigning middleweight champion Johnny Eblen and title challenger Fabian Edwards both made ...
ORLANDO -- Sunny Edwards has heard every opponent put before him vow to be the first to hang a loss on his career. To date, none have come close. The brash, unbeaten IBF flyweight titlist fully expects to leave his next fight with his reign still intact and with Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez’s WBO belt in his possession. The two had ...
Oktagon MMA’s new reality show, Oktagon Challenge: England vs. Ireland, has brought plenty of trash talk and plenty of fun as the two teams of rival MMA prospects go head to head in team challenges before returning to live together under one roof. The show, which streams in the UK on Channel 4’s platforms, offers a chance for a group ...
It wasn’t the opponent he wanted but that doesn’t Shakur Stevenson is listlessly going through training camp. On November 16th, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, the 26-year-old will officially take on Edwin De Los Santos. To sweeten the pot, the WBC has placed their freshly vacated title on the line. Devin Haney was the first name on ...
Undefeated junior welterweight prospect Ernesto "Tito" Mercado, (12-0, 11 KOs), of Pomona, CA returns to battle on Saturday, November 11 against former world title challenger Jeremia Nakathila, (23-3-0, 19 KOs) of Windhoek, Namibia in the ten-round main event at the Lumcolor – Phoenix Center in Ontario, CA. “These are the types of fights I want,” said the 21-year-old promotional free ...
A competitive loss at the hands of Tyson Fury in 2019 was supposed to be a blessing in disguise. For Otto Wallin, it wasn’t the results he wanted but coming out on the losing end would seemingly open up every door imaginable to him. Before Fury, Wallin was an unknown commodity. Now, he was a bonafide contender. Nevertheless, just when ...
For the most part, fans weren’t too invested in the contractual status of Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford. After waiting years for the two pound-for-pound stars to get it on, most were simply happy that their longtime rivalry was finally coming to an end. With that said, there were a few surface-level details that were revealed, such as a ...
Shadasia Green will finally land her overdue title shot. For the second time this year, it won’t come against her intended target. Previously undisputed super middleweight champion Savannah Marshall was forced to relinquish her physical WBC title due to a lingering, undisclosed injury that will keep her out of the ring through next spring. The unbeaten Green will now challenge ...
Frank Warren remains flabbergasted by Joe Joyce’s decision to slim down for his first fight with Zhilei Zhang. Joyce, the heavyweight bruiser from London, weighed 256 pounds ahead of his showdown with China’s Zhang in April, about 15 pounds lighter than his previous fight against Joseph Parker last September, in which he weighed 241 ½ pounds. Joyce knocked out Parker ...