Golden Boy Fight Night on DAZN will close out the year with a main event featuring local, Cathedral City native and WBC super bantamweight Continental Latino titleholder Jose “Tito” Sanchez (11-0, 7 KOs) participating in a 10-round match against Phoenix, Arizona’s Walter Santibanes (12-2, 2 KOs). The action will take place on December 14th at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino and ...
A replacement opponent has been secured for Andy Cruz. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Mexico’s Jovanni Straffon has accepted an offer to face the Olympic Gold medalist and advanced pro boxing rookie. The bout is not yet finalized, but is trending in the right direction for Cruz to maintain his place on the December 9 Regis Prograis-Devin Haney DAZN Pay-Per-View undercard. ...
Ohara Davies will have to wait a few more weeks for his Golden Boy Promotions debut. A delay in his visa paperwork has forced the British contender to withdraw from this weekend’s planned interim WBA junior welterweight title fight versus Venezuela’s Ismael Barroso. The bout was due to serve as the DAZN-aired chief support to the Ryan Garcia-Oscar Duarte 140-pound ...
Ryan Garcia says that his 15-month hiatus from boxing tending to mental health issues was a serious setback from further building on his budding career. After knocking out Luke Cambell on Jan. 2, 2021, Garcia was inactive until his April 9, 2022 fight against Emmanuel Tagoe. In between that period of time, in addition to focusing on his mental health, ...
Puerto Rican junior middleweight contender Xander Zayas hopes to close the year on an emphatic note. Zayas will take on Spain's Jorge Fortea in a 10-round battle on Saturday, Dec. 9 at Charles F. Dodge City Center in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Zayas-Fortea will serve as the co-feature to the WBO featherweight world title showdown between reigning champ Robeisy “El Tren” ...
Promoter Eddie Hearn feels that an Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder fight is inevitable, provided they both win their upcoming bout on Dec. 23. London’s Joshua will headline against Otto Wallin two days before Christmas in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On the same card, Wilder, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will take on Joseph Parker. Should both Joshua and Wilder win their respective ...
This past weekend, Skye Nicolson made a successful defense of her WBC interim-featherweight title with a stoppage of Lucy Wildheart in nine rounds. The fight was part of the undercard to the junior welterweight rematch between Katie Taylor and Chantelle Cameron. Now she's gunning for a crack at the undisputed champion of the weight class, Amanda Serrano. “We’ll see,” Nicolson told ...
Two-weight world champion Natasha Jonas will defend her IBF world welterweight title against former unified world champion Mikaela Mayer in a landmark night for women’s boxing as two of the sport's biggest stars meet in the center of the ring on Saturday, January 20th at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland. ...
Canadian MMA star and two-time PFL lightweight champion Olivier Aubin-Mercier has officially confirmed his retirement from the sport. Five days removed from capturing his second successive PFL lightweight championship at the 2023 PFL World Championship event in Washington DC, Aubin-Mercier has considered his future, and posted to his Instagram page to announce his retirement. “Feeling incredibly grateful today as I ...
Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson is a true student of the game, so when he hopped on his YouTube channel to share his views on the greatest MMA fighters of all time, we sat up and took notice. Johnson, whose stellar career continues under the ONE Championship banner following an incredible run as the undisputed UFC flyweight champion, is currently the ...