French welterweight Jordy Weiss (31-0-1, 3 KO) won the vacant EBU title last night in Laval (France) with a unanimous points win over tough Belgian Meriton Karaxha (30-8-4). Karaxha accepted the fight on a few days' notice after Spaniard Jon Miguez pulled out with a back injury. ............................... IBO middleweight Etinosa Oliha (18-0) defends the title on November 25 in ...
George Groves doesn’t just think Tyson Fury’s fight with Francis Ngannou will simply delay his title unification showdown with Oleksandr Usyk. The retired former WBA super middleweight champion, now an analyst for Sky Sports, believes Fury’s subpar performance against Ngannou has convinced him to not face Usyk at all. The tentative date for their fight was December 23, but neither ...
Alberto Palmetta overcame the superior pure boxing skills of Janelson Bocachica to bully his way to a victory. Constant pressure applied by the visiting Argentinean was enough to sway the judges in a competitive ten-round welterweight contest. Judges Dennis DeBon (97-93), Joanne Richard (96-94) and Tito Wilgo (96-94) all scored for Palmetta in their ProBox TV-aired main event Wednesday evening ...
Ryan Garcia knows a thing or two about being called out by fighters in a whole different sport. For the 25-year-old, his skills in the ring forced his pugilistic contemporaries to take notice but it was his social media presence that garnered even more eyeballs. The mixed martial arts community, particularly those from the UFC, have been vagarious to a ...
The bantamweight king from Down Under is ready to bring a little mayhem up north. Jason “Mayhem” Moloney will defend his WBO world title against Mexican-American challenger Saul Sanchez on Saturday, Jan. 13, at Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. Moloney-Sanchez will stream LIVE & exclusively in the U.S. on ESPN+ before the ESPN-televised doubleheader (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) ...
Former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. was ringside, in Saudi Arabia last Saturday, to witness the heavyweight clash between WBC world champion Tyson Fury and MMA veteran Francis Ngnanou. Fury,, who many believe was underprepared, barely pulled out a ten round split decision win over Ngannou, who was making his professional debut in boxing. The scores were 95-94 ...
Hector Luis Garcia and Lamont Roach finally have a date and a site for their mandated 130-pound title fight. BoxingScene.com has learned that Garcia will defend his WBA super featherweight crown against Roach on the David Benavidez-Demetrius Andrade undercard November 25 in Las Vegas. Garcia-Roach will be one of three bouts broadcast by Showtime Pay-Per-View before Benavidez and Andrade square ...
Francis Ngannou apparently won’t be taking much stock into his official boxing record. As far as the former UFC champion from Cameroon is concerned, he basically defeated the top heavyweight boxer in the world—in what was his boxing debut, no less. Ngannou came up short last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in his ballyhooed 10-round “crossover” showdown against WBC ...
Cage Warriors’ return to Newcastle has been bolstered by the addition of a third championship bout, with the promotion’s vacant light heavyweight title set to be contested at the Vertu Motors Arena. Following former champion Modestas Bukauskas’ move back to the UFC, the 205-pound title is back up for grabs, and rival contenders Andy Clamp and Matty Byfield will go ...
Francis Ngannou’s remarkable performance against Tyson Fury in their “Battle of the Baddest” boxing clash in Saudi Arabia has seen the former UFC heavyweight champion’s stock go through the roof, and another former UFC champ, Michael Bisping, thinks the sky’s the limit for the Cameroonian heavyweight. Speaking to Betway, Bisping said that Ngannou’s impressive display on his professional boxing debut ...