John Ryder wants to make sure he’s not fighting Jaime Munguia and the three judges come Jan. 27. The British boxer Ryder (32-6, 18 KOs) and the Mexican fighter Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) will square off for a scrap at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on DAZN. Should the super middleweight match go the 12-round distance, Ryder wants to make ...
For most of his career, Terence Crawford was forced to play nice. Fans and plenty of media members poked holes in his resume and laughed when he claimed that he took on top-tier competition. Although they were all bombastic, Errol Spence Jr.’s criticism was the loudest. For years Spence argued that Crawford hadn’t fought a single worthy soul. Crawford defended ...
It’s good to be a light heavyweight champion these days. OK, let’s face it. It’s probably never a bad time to rule the 175-pound weight class. But it seems to mean a little more here in the first month of 2024, where the two lead dogs in the division share simultaneous billing as two of the world’s best pound-for-pound operators, ...
Eddie Hearn has spent weeks talking about the vivid visions which visited him whenever he closed his eyes. Visions of Callum Smith knocking out Artur Beterbiev with a left hook and returning to England as the new unified light heavyweight champion. Reality set in quickly last Saturday night. Beterbiev put in an almost flawless display and dominated the talented former ...
Ben Whittaker will look to steal the show as he returns to action on the undercard of the all-British showdown between unbeaten #1 and #2 world ranked light heavyweights Joshua Buatsi and Dan Azeez on Saturday, February 3rd at the OVO Arena Wembley in London, live and exclusive on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and Peacock in the ...
If you're a well-recognized name in the super middleweight division or even a fighter on the come-up, the goal is to fight Canelo Alvarez. It makes all the sense in the world. With just one fight, you could make the sort of money that could change your life forever. If the cash grab wasn’t sufficient, the only route to ...
Two members of the growing Quincy, MA.-Granite Chin Promotions (GCP) stable of boxers, middleweights Antonio Todd (16-9, 9 KOs) and Julien “Black Dragon” Baptiste, will make their Madison Square Garden debuts in separate bouts on the February 16th Top Rank card. Todd, fighting out of Atlanta, faces 2020 Dominican Republic Olympian Euri Cedeno (7-0-1, 6 KOs), while Baptiste takes on ...
Diego Pacheco could not have been more pleased to hear Edgar Berlanga’s team finally mention his name. A once-unthinkable matchup between the pair of unbeaten super middleweights has now been teased as a possibility for later this year. Brooklyn’s Berlanga is currently due to face Belfast’s Paidrag McCrory (18-0, 9KOs) atop a February 24 DAZN show from Orlando, Florida. A ...
Artur Beterbiev has evidently grown very weary over Dmitry Bivol’s constant proclamations about fighting each other. The Russian light heavyweight champions could finally be nearing an agreement to put their respective titles on the line for the undisputed 175-pound championship later this year. Momentum for the fight kicked into a new gear after Beterbiev brutally dispatched challenger Callum Smith of ...
Artur Beterbiev wasn’t the only unbeaten, Montreal-based fighter trained by Marc Ramsey who impressed Eddie Hearn on Saturday night. The British promoter also scouted Christian Mbilli, who battered brave Australian Rohan Murdock until Murdock’s handlers stopped their fight after the sixth round at Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. Hearn came away from Mbilli’s impressive performance thinking the unbeaten Cameroon ...