Tomorrow night's British Cruiserweight Championship and Commonwealth Cruiserweight Championship bout between defending champion Mikael Lawal and challenger Isaac Chamberlain is officially on as both fighters made weight at today’s pre-fight weigh-in ahead of Saturday’s BOXXER event at York Hall. (photos by Lawrence Lustig) Saturday night’s event airs live and exclusively on Sky Sports in the UK and is available live ...
The UFC returns to “Fight Island” as Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island plays host to one of the biggest UFC pay-per-views of 2023, with two late changes at the top of the card turning an exciting lineup into a can’t-miss night of fights at the Etihad Arena. UFC 294 will be headlined by a rematch for the undisputed UFC lightweight championship ...
There were certainly easier ways for Giovani Santillan to bide his time. The unbeaten welterweight instead decided to bet on himself and accept a dangerous showdown versus top-rated contender Alexis Rocha. The two meet this Saturday atop a DAZN show from the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California. “I’m very excited for this opportunity,” Santillan said Thursday afternoon during the final ...
Oleksandr Usyk certainly won’t be trying to upsell fans on the upcoming heavyweight “crossover” clash between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou. Fury, the WBC heavyweight titlist from England, will be taking on Cameroon’s Ngannou, the former UFC champion, on Oct. 28 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in what will be Ngannou’s first fight in a professional boxing ring. Hyped as a ...
For whatever reason, Demetrius Andrade has been unable to take part in any of the big-fight fun. The former Olympian believes he’s done his job. He hasn’t fought the best of the best but the names that were brave enough to face him have all come up short. Although it’s taken longer than he could’ve ever imagined, he’s finally getting ...
UFC 294 fight night is almost upon us, and the final pre-fight obligations for the fighters has arrived, as they take to the stage for the final faceoffs ahead of their respective matchups in Abu Dhabi. Fight week has been dominated by the dual storylines around the main and co-main events, with reigning featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski and former welterweight ...
Paris hosted the IBA Champions’ Night for the very first time on 18 October. The Westfield Forum des Halles witnessed the fights of twelve talented champions, medallists, and contenders. The boxers receive prize money, $10,000 for the winner and $5,000 for the runner-up. The main event brought the audience excitement, as French boxing star and three-time World champion Sofiane Oumiha ...
The fighters have weighed in ahead of fight night in Abu Dhabi, with the entire main card making their contracted weights for fight night at the Etihad Arena. The two men set for action in the main event, Islam Makhachev and Alexander Volkanovski, both made weight for their lightweight title fight, with lightweight champion Makhachev hitting the 155-pound limit on ...
The UFC returns to “Fight Island” as Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island plays host to one of the biggest UFC pay-per-views of 2023, with two late changes at the top of the card turning an exciting lineup into a can’t-miss night of fights at the Etihad Arena. UFC 294 will be headlined by a rematch for the undisputed UFC lightweight championship ...
Tyson Fury has fought 34 professional boxing matches since 2008, dethroned Wladimir Klitschko in 2015, and has been floored four times by Deontay Wilder across a thrilling trilogy, but the WBC heavyweight champion proclaims wrestling is the harder discipline. "WWE's too hard for me,” Fury told ESPN. “Boxing is much easier than WWE. It's very physical and taxing on the ...