Rafael Pedroza is set for his U.S. debut with hopes to spoil Ramon Cardenas’ first televised hometown headliner. Both boxers made weight for their scheduled ten-round regional junior featherweight title fight this Friday from Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas. Pedroza weighed right at the 122-pound divisional limit while Cardenas was 121.8 pounds for their Showtime-televised ShoBox ...
Twenty three year old super welterweight phenom Jesus Ramos Jr. will be featured as a pay per view undercard draw for the fourth straight time in 17 months when he takes on credible contender Erickson Lubin on Sept. 30. The Ramos-Lubin high-stakes scrap will provide chief support to the card headlined by Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo at the T-Mobile ...
The prospect of Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua meeting before the end of the year seems to be becoming more and more remote. A fight which was apparently set in stone just a few weeks ago looks to be drifting further away by the day. The fighters apparently want it to happen next, broadcasters would be overjoyed at the prospect ...
Stamp Fairtex is no stranger to competing for world titles. The Thai superstar has previously won both the women’s atomweight and kickboxing straps in ONE Championship, and she’ll square off with Ham Seo Hee for the ONE interim women’s atomweight MMA world title at ONE Fight Night 14 on Saturday, September 30 in Singapore. The battle will mark the second ...
If Valentina Shevchenko’s pre-fight words are any guide, we could be about to see the most focused, most dangerous “Bullet” Shevchenko yet. The former UFC women’s flyweight champion is back to recapture the 125-pound title as she gets set to face Mexican champion Alexa Grasso, who shocked the MMA world with a submission finish of Shevchenko back at UFC 285 ...
The 18th anniversary of Canelo Alvarez’s pro debut will come a little less than a month after his fight with Jermell Charlo. Alvarez was only 15 years old when he fought for the first time as a professional. The Mexican legend weighed in at 139 pounds, one below the junior welterweight limit, for that fourth-round technical knockout of Abraham Gonzalez ...
A pivotal bout in the Cage Warriors lightweight division has been added to the fight card for Cage Warriors 161 in Dublin, Ireland. Three months after his victorious return to the promotion, former two-division champion Mason Jones will make his second appearance of his second Cage Warrior stint as he takes on former title challenger Yann Liasse at the RDS ...
Bellator has confirmed 10 bouts, including two championship fights, as the promotion heads to Chicago for a big event on Friday, November 17. Bellator 301 will be headlined by a battle for the welterweight title, as undefeated Ukrainian champion Yaroslav Amosov bids to extend his perfect record to 28-0 with victory over No. 2 contender Jason Jackson. Amosov, as his ...
Jermell Charlo apparently thinks he’s a Hall of Famer. If the world ends today, he’d be wrong. Though two title reigns at 154 pounds – including an existing four-belt claim – are noteworthy and commendable and worthy of praise, they’re not quite enough to warrant all-time status. But if he wins on September 30, that might change. If the 33-year-old ...
Fresh off his knockout of the year contender in his last outing, England’s Omiel Brown is ready to challenge for Cage Warriors gold. The 28-year-old Team Renegade prospect has cut his professional teeth under the Cage Warriors banner and built an impressive 6-2 record, but it was his most recent performance that demonstrated his readiness for a title shot. Matched ...