The countdown is officially underway. On February 17th, rival champions Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and boxing will finally crown an undisputed heavyweight champion. Usyk and Fury have been in each other’s company a few times over the years. WBC champion, Fury, has hugged, praised, dismissed and ridiculed his rival but despite his best ...
Regis Prograis doesn't normally strut around bloviating perpetually about himself. He knows he’s a terrific fighter. The problem, however, is that he feels he’s alone in that assertion. Although he’s a two-time world champion and currently holds the WBC super lightweight title, seldom, if ever, does his name appear on anyone’s pound-for-pound list. The omission doesn’t upset the 34-year-old. The ...
YouTube Theater, Inglewood - In a super middleweight scrap, Diego Pacheco (20-0, 17 KOs) was tested and overcame some tough moments to knock Marcelo Coceres (32-6-1, 18 KOs) out in the ninth round. Pacheco was seeing action for the third time in 2023. In February, he traveled to the Echo Arena in London and knocked out Jack Cullen in four ...
YouTube Theater, Inglewood - In a WBA super bantamweight title clash, Erika Cruz (17-2, 3 KOs) captured gold when he punched her way to a ten round majority decision over Mayerlin Rivas (17-5-3, 11 KOs). The scores were 95-95, 98-92 and 97-93 for Cruz. Two fights back, Cruz lost a ten round war with undisputed featherweight champion Amanda Serrano in February. ...
Rising middleweight contender Brendan Allen was more than happy to take on Scottish grappling ace Paul Craig on the mat, and he forced “Bearjew” to tap to a rear-naked choke in the third round of their bout at UFC Vegas 82. Allen and Craig faced off in the five-round middleweight main event at the UFC Apex, where the American called ...
Nathan Heaney entered the night as the show’s best ticket seller. The unbeaten Stoke-on-Trent middleweight provided every fan with their money’s worth as he earned a career-best win over countryman Denzel Bentley. Heaney pulled off a major upset with a twelve-round, majority decision to earn the British middleweight title. Judge Victor Loughlin (114-114) somehow saw an even fight through twelve ...
Oktagon MMA crowned a heavyweight champion in Cologne at Oktagon 49, but the final reckoning didn’t come without some degree of controversy as Germany’s Hatef Moeil defeated Bulgaria’s Lazar Todev on the scorecards after a five-round war at the Lanxess Arena. Moeil signaled his intent in the opening seconds of the fight as he ran to the center of the ...
Manchester Arena, Manchester - In a WBC final eliminator, featherweight contender Nick Ball (19-0, 11 KOs) picked up the biggest win of his career with a solid twelve round unanimous decision over former world champion Isaac Dogboe (24-4, 15 KOs). The scores were 118-109, 116-111 and 119-108. Ball began the fight by applying a lot of pressure and coming forward ...
Harry Scarff finally found a way over the hump on the domestic level. The scrappy welterweight outmuscled previously unbeaten Ekow Essuman to earn a twelve-round, unanimous decision in their multi-belt domestic title fight. Scores were 117-112, 116-113 and 115-113 for Scarff in their TNT Sports/ESPN+ televised battle Saturday at AO Arena in Manchester, England. Nottingham’s Essuman forced a torrid pace ...
Tyson Fury had a déjà vu moment when he heard the claim that all the heavyweight titles were returning to Ukraine. That was the claim made by Alex Krassyuk, the career-long promoter of Oleksandr Usyk who owns the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts. All will be on the line as will Fury’s lineal and WBC crown in their February ...