EBU cruiserweight king Michal Cieslak (24-2) defends the title against ex-champ Tommy McCarthy (20-4) onNovember 4 in Zakopane (Poland) on a show stage by Knockout Promotions. In the chief support former WBC cruiser champ 42-year old Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (63-4-1) continues his career against an opponent to be announced. ..................................... New York-based Swedish heavyweight Otto Wallin (26-1-0-1) is back home in ...
Sodiq Yusuff is settling into the role of a UFC main eventer as he prepares to headline a UFC event for the first time. Yusuff takes on Brazilian legend Edson Barboza in the featherweight main event of UFC Vegas 81, which takes place Saturday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It’s an assignment he was excited to accept, ...
Edson Barboza may be in the veteran stage of his MMA career, but he still carries the “wow” factor into the cage every time he competes. The Brazilian’s highlight reel contains some of the most spectacular knockouts in UFC history, and in his most recent outing against Billy Quarantillo at UFC Kansas City, he showed that his ability to finish ...
This was the type of fight that drove Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez down in weight. The two-division and reigning WBO flyweight titlist accepted as risky a challenge for his first defense. San Antonio’s Rodriguez is set for a terrific unification bout versus IBF champ Sunny Edwards on December 16 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The media tour began on ...
Tim Bradley never quite understood it. For as long as he could remember, Demetrius Andrade was an incredible fighter. He dominated everyone at 154 pounds and did much of the same at 160. He hasn’t fought the best fighters around, but Bradley has always been impressed with his ability to do just about everything in the ring. Bradley has banged ...
Michael Conlan has rung the changes ahead of his latest assault on the featherweight division. Conlan suffered a stunning fifth round knockout at the hands of IBF featherweight champion, Luis Alberto Lopez, in May but the two-time Olympian remains as determined as ever to win a world title. Conlan, 31, began his professional career in California with Manny Robles before ...
The UFC’s contracted administrators of their anti-doping policy, USADA, have announced that the partnership between the two organizations will come to an end at the end of 2023. In a statement released via their website, USADA CEO Travis Tygart announced that Conor McGregor had re-entered the USADA testing pool, but went on to drop the bombshell news that the relationship ...
Michael McKinson has spent months waiting for his phone to ring. On Wednesday, the welterweight contender got a nice surprise. Suddenly, he was inundated with notifications as people tagged him into a BoxingScene.com article in which the world ranked David Avanesyan all but agreed to take him on in a crossroads fight. “I don’t care. I accept any fight that ...
While middleweight has often been top heavy even in higher financial times in recent decades, the top was often more than enough. Marvin Hagler, Bernard Hopkins, and Gennadiy Golovkin all found themselves waiting for smaller men with big names to come up the scale to define them. A brief explosion between Hopkins and Golovkin featured Jermain Taylor, Kelly Pavlik, Paul ...
A strawweight title fight more than a year in the making remains in limbo as deadlines near. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that ongoing efforts are being made to get Thammanoon Niyomtrong to the U.S. and his title consolidation bout with Erick Rosa into a boxing ring. The two were originally due to meet in October, with three separate dates—October 7, October ...