Chris Eubank Jnr will not be fighting Conor Benn. Not on February 3rd 2024, anyway. Earlier this week, Benn’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, admitted that the fight was in danger of falling apart and it was confirmed today that the saga - which began back in October 2022 when Benn’s positive test for the banned substance clomifene caused the late cancellation ...
As expected, Joseph Parker has received advice from Tyson Fury on how to defeat upcoming opponent Deontay Wilder. Fury has face Wilder on three occasions - in 2018, 2020 and 2021. They went to a draw in the first encounter, with Wilder suffering stoppage defeats in the next two. Fury knows the danger involved, as he was knocked down four ...
Jake Paul hasn’t been able to find much footage of Andre August while trying to prepare for his upcoming opponent. Paul promised to place August on his highlight reel, though, when they fight Friday night in Orlando, Florida. The polarizing Paul hasn’t recorded a knockout in almost two years, but the Westlake, Ohio native predicted that he’ll end that drought ...
Colbert Vilifies Valenzuela: He’s The Definition Of A Loser; Cry, Complain, Act Like A Little Bitch!
Chris Colbert considers Jose Valenzuela “a loser,” and not because Colbert beat him on all three scorecards 8½ months ago. Colbert views Valenzuela’s behavior immediately following their closely contested fight and thereafter as actions that don’t align with a winner’s mentality. Valenzuela vehemently disputed the official result of their 10-round lightweight bout in the ring March 25 at MGM Grand ...
In-ring success has not been hard to come by for Franchon Crews-Dezurn. Finding the opportunities to actually make her way to the ring, however, has been a different story. The former undisputed super middleweight champion has not fought more than once in a calendar year since the pandemic. It didn’t stop her from fully unifying all the 168-pound titles last ...
If we take Anthony Joshua at his word, the heavyweight division could be in for some explosive, exciting nights over the coming years. The two-time unified champion sat down with TNT’s Laura Woods to promote his fight with Otto Wallin on the massive upcoming ‘Day of Reckoning’ card in Saudi Arabia. Asked to describe Tyson Fury, Francis Ngannou and Deontay ...
Peter Kahn, President of Fight Game Advisors, has signed undefeated featherweight prospect John Laryea, (12-0-1, 10 KOs), from the boxing rich country of Ghana. Ranked #15 by the World Boxing Organization (WBO), the 23-year-old Laryea has already claimed victory in four bouts scheduled for twelve rounds. Most recently he defended the WBO African Featherweight Title with a 12-round unanimous decision ...
47 years. That’s how long the flyweight division in boxing went between the time Salvatore Burruni was stripped of the WBA’s 112 pound belt, in an era when the WBC was still considered fledgling, and the first alphabet unification clash in the division. 2012 gave us Brian Viloria’s win over Tyson Marquez to unify the WBA and WBO belts, a ...
Junto Nakatani will not waste any time in his bid to become a three-division titlist. The rail thin WBO junior bantamweight titlist is off to bantamweight, where he will challenge reigning WBC title holder Alexandro Santiago. Their intriguing matchup is confirmed to headline a February 24 title fight tripleheader on Amazon Prime-Japan from the famed Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan. ...
Promoter Eddie Hearn believes odds have shifted in the upcoming undisputed fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. The two unbeaten beltholders are scheduled to collide on February 17 in Saudi Arabia. A few months ago, Fury stepped in the ring with MMA veteran Francis Ngannou in what seemed to be a ...