San Antonio, Texas - In a crossroads welterweight clash, Mario Barrios (27-2, 18 KOs) broke down and stopped Jovanie Santiago (14-3-1, 10 KOs) in the eighth round. (photos by Amanda Westcott) Barrios was pressing and coming forward in the first two rounds, being aggressive and targeting both the head and body. In the third, Barrios was unloading with hard punches ...
New Zealand’s Fergus Jenkins was a part of the most spine-tingling moment of the 2021 IMMAF World Championships. Now he hopes to relive the moment with a repeat showing at the 2022 tournament. Jenkins ran the table in Abu Dhabi to take middleweight gold in the 2021 IMMAF World Championships, but perhaps even more memorable than his title-winning performance was ...
Team USA’s Victoria Anthony knows what it’s like to compete on the world stage and take home the gold. Now she’s looking to do it again in a second sport. Anthony has been a part of the United States’ national wrestling squad, and was Team USA reserve for two Olympic Games. She’s a two-time world junior champion, has captured two ...
Sabrina De Sousa plans to make history at the IMMAF World Championships in Serbia, then make her mark in the UFC. The most dominant female athlete in amateur MMA, De Sousa heads into the the 2022 IMMAF World Chamionships as a two-time women’s featherweight champion, and has her sights set on a history-making third title. Brazilian De Sousa represents Bahrain ...
O’Shaquie Foster is as aware of what’s in his future as he was in the ring to win his first major title. Back-to-back mandatory title defenses await the 29-year-old Orange, Texas native following his twelve-round, unanimous decision victory over two-division titlist Rey Vargas. Judges Alejandro Rochin (119-109), Tim Cheatham (117-111) and David Sutherland (116-112) all scored for Foster, who claimed ...
Mikaela Mayer wasn’t too impressed by Alycia Baumgardner’s latest performance. Michigan's Baumgardner recently unified all four belts in the women’s 130-pound division with a unanimous points win over France’s Elhem Mekhaled last Saturday at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Baumgardner unified three titles in her weight class when she defeated Mayer last October in ...
Adam Azim, one of the most exciting young prospects in boxing, boxed past an experienced undefeated opponent in Santos Reyes to take a unanimous decision victory over 10 rounds. Azim gave a mature, intelligent performance to move to 8-0 as a professional, controlling the entire fight and rarely giving Reyes the opportunity to land a single clean shot on him. ...
The upcoming DAZN show featuring Gilberto Ramirez now has a co-feature and location. Joseph Diaz Jr. and Mercito Gesta have agreed to terms for a lightweight bout, both boxers confirmed through social media. The crossroads affair will land on the undercard of the already announced March 18 DAZN main event between Mexico’s Ramirez and Philadelphia’s Gabriel Rosado in a scheduled ...
Islam Makhachev edged Alexander Volkanovski to retain his UFC lightweight title after a gripping five-round battle at UFC 284 in Perth, Australia. Featherweight champion Volkanovski stepped up a weight class to take on lightweight king Makhachev in the main event at the RAC Arena, and both men were tested in ways we hadn’t seen before, as Makhachev was dragged into ...
Rey Vargas landed in double digits in 5 of the 12 rounds. O’Shaquie Foster reached double digit lands in 9 of the 12 rounds. Foster threw 101 more punches than Vargas and landed 43 more punches (22 more jabs and 21 more power punches). In the championship rounds, Foster out-landed Vargas 32-10. San Antonio, Texas - In a battle for ...