Undefeated cruiserweight contender Richard Riakporhe is placing a target on the back of the winner of Sunday's fight between WBO world champion Chris Billam-Smith and challenger Mateusz Masternak. Billam-Smith defends the title for the first time since the shocking one-sided win over Lawrence Okolie earlier this year. Riakporhe is the number one ranked contender under the WBO and he expects to ...
Australian boxer Michael Zerafa will be heading to the United States, where he intends to train on a full-time basis for a world title shot in 2024. Zerafa is the mandatory challenger to WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara. The title shot has been delayed as Lara's planned defense against Danny Garcia has been pushed back several times. After he arrives ...
Robeisy Ramirez was able to finally land a headliner in Florida, where he first sought freedom. He just couldn’t overcome the tall order that came with the assignment. Longshot underdog Rafael Espinoza survived a knockdown to score one of his own to win the WBO featherweight title in a massive upset. Guadalajara’s Espinoza won by scores of 115-111 (Steve Weisfeld) ...
Xander Zayas turned the pressure of fighting in his hometown into a net positive. The first career home game ended spectacularly for the South Florida-based Boricua, who scored a fifth-round knockout of Spain’s Jorge Fortea. Zayas scored two knockdowns, the latter which produced the full ten count to end the fight at 1:37 of round five Saturday evening at Charles ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Miyo Yoshida delivered about as good a performance Saturday as you could ask on less than two weeks’ notice. The Japanese underdog landed the cleaner punches and out-worked Ebanie Bridges to upset the defending IBF bantamweight champion on the Regis Prograis-Devin Haney undercard at Chase Center. Japan’s Yoshida (17-4, 0 KOs) won a unanimous decision by scores ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Andy Cruz will fight for just the second time as a professional Saturday night on the Regis Prograis-Devin Haney undercard. His limited pro experience notwithstanding, the ambitious Olympic gold medalist doesn’t think he is all that far away from taking center stage himself. The confident Cruz predicted during a press conference Thursday at Chase Center that he ...
Just 133 days after breaking his leg in his first crack at the Oktagon featherweight title, Belgium’s Losene Keita returned to the cage and demolished Niko Samsonidse to finish the job and claim the 145-pound title at Oktagon 50 in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Keita’s first tilt at the undisputed featherweight crown saw him suffer a broken leg against Mate Sanikidze ...
Either Devin Haney’s getting bigger by the minute, or he has an unappeasable desire to win as many world titles as humanly possible. After aggregating every major belt at 135 pounds, Haney (30-0, 15 KOs) revealed that he would be moving up to the super lightweight division. Although he made his announcement, he was unwilling to let go of his ...
When it’s time to give credit, Ryan Garcia has no problem doing it. For several years now, the wildly popular super lightweight contender has wanted to get his hands on Devin Haney. He doesn’t loathe him, but the two have developed a rivalry that goes back to their adolescence. In the amateurs, Garcia and Haney went 3-3 against one another. ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Montana Love laughed off Liam Paro’s prediction Thursday for how their 12-round junior welterweight fight will unfold Saturday night at Chase Center. The confident, Cleveland-based southpaw scoffed at Paro’s promise to pressure him into “folding” again, the way Paro believes Love unraveled when fellow Australian Steve Spark stalked him during their November 2022 bout at Rocket Mortgage ...