Even when two-division ONE world champion Anatoly Malykhin isn’t in camp, he still keeps a keen eye on the ongoing developments in ONE Championship. “Sladkiy” will be in attendance at ONE Fight Night 16: Haggerty vs. Andrade on Saturday, November 4, inside Lumpinee Boxing Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, and he’ll be watching a couple of contests on the card closer ...
Paulie Malignaggi continued to shake his head at how the career of Demetrius “Boo Boo” Andrade was playing out. For roughly a decade and a half, the former Olympian was as smooth as butter in the ring. If you wanted to bang it out on the inside, he was more than willing. A pure boxing match? No problem. There was ...
Former UFC champion Francis Ngannou is fuming after suffering a close ten round split decision loss to WBC king Tyson Fury. Their fight, which took place on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, saw two judges issued tallies of 95-94 and 96-93 for Fury, while a third had it 95-94 for Ngannou. Ngannou, who was making his pro debut in boxing, ...
On December 9, former WBA world super flyweight champion Andrew Moloney is set for his ring return in Albert Park, Melbourne Victoria. The Australian stylist comes home to the Pullman Hotel, Victoria, as he faces the strong Filipino Judy Flores, with the former world champion looking to rebuild back to another world title challenge. In his last fight, back in ...
Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez arrived at the Cancun Convention Center for his WBC super featherweight title bout against champion O’Shaquie Foster around three hours before the opening bell would ring. Convention centers, as one might imagine, aren’t equipped with locker rooms as an arena would be, so the dressing rooms on this night were either empty halls that a day prior ...
Saturday morning at Wild Card Boxing Gym in Hollywood, CA, Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions hosted a contingent of local media with five fighters headed to Madison Square Garden for the Hollywood Fight Nights New York City debut on Thursday, November 9 at The Theater at Madison Square Garden and broadcast globally on UFC FIGHT PASS. (photos by Lina Baker) Among ...
Dewey Cooper, trainer of MMA veteran Francis Ngannou, indicates that his fighter was promised a top ten ranking from World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman. On Saturday in Saudi Arabia, Ngannou made his professional boxing debut against the man many viewed as the top heavyweight of the weight class, WBC world champion Tyson Fury. Their fight was a non-title affair, ...
Oleksandr Usyk's promoter, Alex Krassyuk, says WBC champion Tyson Fury is bound to move forward with a planned undisputed fight. On Saturday in Saudi Arabia, Fury barely overcame MMA veteran Francis Ngannou to win a close ten round split decision in a high profile crossover boxing match. Usyk, the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO champion, was ringside for the contest. ...
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou revealed that he was doing a lot of trash-talking during the crossover fight with WBC world champion Tyson Fury. On Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ngannou put in a stunning performance in a razor-close ten round split decision loss to Fury. During the third round, Ngannou shocked everyone when he dropped Fury with a left hand. ...
The career of Jermall Charlo was about as picture-perfect as his record. At 154 pounds, he didn’t aggregate every world title but one was enough for most to consider him the man to beat. He may have taken the IBF crown off the carcass of an older Cornelius Bundrage but wins over Austin Trout and Julian Williams left no doubt ...