The team surrounding Ivana Habazin secured the rights to her mandatory title challenge for the second time this year. Charles Muniz, Habazin’s manager, once again won a purse bid hearing for the WBC-ordered title fight between Habazin and defending lineal, WBC and WBA champion Jessica McCaskill. Piranha 1 LLC company, Muniz’s privately owned company, submitted $82,500 as the lone bidder ...
MONTREAL - For its second event on the 2024 calendar, Eye of the Tiger will present, on January 25th, at the Cabaret du Casino de Montréal, an event that features world contender Erik Bazinyan facing veteran Billi Facundo Godoy for the NABF and WBA Continental North America titles, and Albert Ramirez arrives in Quebec for the first time, aiming to ...
Becoming a world champion is something that practically every fighter dreams of. With that salient goal in mind, they normally immure themselves in their respective gyms for years while working tirelessly on their games. Once their dreams become a reality, a sigh of relief is let out. That said, grabbing a world title, whether it’s the first in their collection ...
York Hall - Gavin Gwynne (17-2-1, 5 KO’s) added the European lightweight championship to his British title, averting a near disaster to beat Italian veteran Emiliano Marsili (42-1-1, 16 KO’s). 47 year old Marsili would have become the oldest fighter to ever win the European belt with a win and put in an outstanding display before a serious shoulder injury ...
York Hall - Royston Barney-Smith (8-0, 4 KO’s) teed off on Colombia’s Maicol Velazco (10-14, 3 KO’s). The promising super featherweight looked strong and moved Velazco around the ring at will, using his southpaw jab as a range finder and firing in a very accurate left hand to head and body. It quickly became apparent that the smaller Velazco had ...
Chinese heavyweight giant Zhilei Zhang revealed in a recent interview that he was in negotiations to face MMA veteran Francis Ngannou on December 23, as part of the big boxing card taking place in Saudi Arabia. Ngannou, a former UFC champion, made his professional debut in October, in a crossover boxing match with WBC champion Tyson Fury. The combat sports ...
Hours after Ryan Garcia publicly lambasted his promoters at a press conference, Oscar De La Hoya took to social media to air his concerns about his ace charge. Garcia, the junior welterweight from Victorville, Calif., caused a stir Thursday in Houston, Texas, by disparaging Golden Boy Promotions, particularly its key partner Bernard Hopkins, ahead of his upcoming fight this Saturday ...
Bill Haney always believed Shakur Stevenson had flaws in his game. The problem, however, was no one was good enough to accentuate them. Earlier this month in Las Vegas, Nevada, Edwin De Los Santos, despite being given little to no chance, almost proved that he was idoneous on the night. It was a slow fight, one that lacked any significant ...
Michael Conlan has the benefit of a familiar backdrop for his first fight at a higher weight. The former two-time challenger appeared fighting fit at a career heaviest 129 ½ pounds for his junior lightweight debut. He will face England’s Jordan Gill, who followed Conlan up the scale from featherweight and was also 129 ½ pounds. The two will meet ...
Usually, once a fighter turns pro, they normally rack up a ton of fights. Those fights can sometimes take place months or even weeks apart. The level of opposition doesn’t quite matter but gaining experience is salient. In the case of Arben Markasheviq, however, things didn’t quite play out that way. For the Montenegro native, he essentially turned pro at ...