ORLANDO – The official decision was just as unbelievable hours later to Sandy Ryan as when her dreams were crushed in real time. What should have been a clear win to unify three titles instead saw England’s Ryan settle for a questionable ten-round, split decision draw versus lineal, WBC, IBO and WBO welterweight champion Jessica McCaskill. Judge Mike Ross had ...
Team Ireland evened things up and tempers continued to rise on an extremely eventful week two of Oktagon Challenge: England vs. Ireland. Following their victory in the opening week of the show, Team England got to select which two athletes would face off against each other in the second bout of the season. They called for Team England’s slick submission ...
Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen turned on the power to finish Fabian Edwards in the third round of his title defense in Dublin, then stated that he belongs in the discussion about the best middleweights on the planet. Eblen knocked out Edwards with vicious ground strikes early in the third round of their main event title fight in Dublin to ...
Last Saturday night, world champions Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez and Sunny Edwards once again came face-to-face in Orlando ahead of their flyweight unification clash at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on Saturday December 16. The unbeaten pair meet in a mouth-watering battle to determine the top dog in the division, with WBO ruler Rodriguez and IBF king Edwards defending ...
Team Ireland evened things up and tempers continued to rise on an extremely eventful week two of Oktagon Challenge: England vs. Ireland. Following their victory in the opening week of the show, Team England got to select which two athletes would face off against each other in the second bout of the season. They called for Team England’s slick submission ...
Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando - In a battle for the WBA, IBO, WBC, WBO welterweight titles, Sandy Ryan (6-1-1, 2 KOs) thought she had won the fight, but the contest with Jessica McCaskill (12-3-1, 5 KOs) ended with a questionable ten round split draw. The scores were 97-93 for McCaskill, 96-94 for Ryan, and 95-95 for the draw. McCaskill was ...
Boxing used to be a simple sport. Its complexities should become even less accentuated when a fighter becomes a world champion. To put it in its simplest form, just fight other good fighters. Tyson Fury, however, is making things far more complicated than it has to be. In just over a month, the WBC titlist will be taking on boxing ...
As first reported by Dan Rafael, Dubai-based cruiserweight Badou Jack (28-3-3) has now been named "champion in recess" by the WBC. This paves the way for a fight for the now vacant WBC cruiserweight title between Noel Mikaelian (26-2) and ex-champ Ilunga Makabu (28-3). However, the fight between Jack and WBC Bridgerweight champ Lukasz Rozanski (16-0) from Poland is still ...
Jesus Ramos Jr. is planning to deliver a breakout performance when he takes on Erickson Lubin as the co-main event attraction for the card headlined by Canelo Alvarez and Jermell Charlo on Sept. 30 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Showtime PPV. The fast-rising super welterweight upstart Ramos (20-0, 16 KOs) was originally supposed to fight Sergio Garcia ...
ORLANDO – Conor Benn had to take a deep breath as he prepared to relive it all. The undefeated boxer was seated next to his father and former two-division champion Nigel Benn when the question was posed of the long road that led to his ring return. The younger Benn hadn’t fought since last April and has spent nearly the ...