Olympic silver medal winner Joe Joyce is looking to get back on track in 2024. Last year was a disaster, with Joyce suffering back to back stoppage losses at the hands of Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang. Joyce was very interested in last month's 'Day of Reckoning' event, which featured several top heavyweights in key fights. "It was a great night ...
Boxxer head Ben Shalom, who promotes heavyweight contender Martin Bakole, believes the WBA could order a final eliminator with former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua. Bakole is the number one rated fighter under the WBA, with Joshua sitting in the number two position. Should the order come down, and Joshua takes a pass, the number three contender is Daniel Dubois. Joshua ...
“The Monster” made 2023 his most historically significant year since Naoya Inoue made his pro debut in October 2012. Inoue entered the year as boxing’s undisputed bantamweight champion. He ended the year as the sport’s fully unified junior featherweight champion after defeating a pair of unified 122-pound champions during a legacy-enhancing five-month stretch. The 30-year-old Japanese superstar’s stoppages of previously ...
Vergil Ortiz Jr. ended his 17-month layoff in less than a round Saturday night. The hard-hitting, 25-year-old Ortiz hurt huge underdog Fredrick Lawson with a jab and stopped him just 2:33 into the first round of their main event at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Ortiz, who fought above the welterweight limit of 147 pounds for the first time, kept his ...
After nearly two years of dealing with health complications due to rhabdomyolysis, Vergil Ortiz Jr. is ready to revive his career. Ortiz (19-0, 19 KOs) will return to the ring Saturday night to take on Fredrick Lawson (30-3, 22 KOs) at the Virgin Hotels in Las Vegas on DAZN. The 25-year-old Ortiz will be fighting for just the second time ...
The consistent entertainment value of the junior middleweight division for more than half a decade has been inarguable. Battles like Jarrett Hurd-Erislandy Lara and both Jermell Charlo-Brian Castano encounters have been a highlight for the sport. We got a veritable round robin with plenty of surprises along the way. The thing about highly entertaining runs in particular divisions is ...
Could you name the best heavyweights in the world? If you were asked to cobble together a list, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk are likely at the top. Also, considering how good both looked recently, some may view Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker as the division’s best. Regardless of who’s chosen, Filip Hrgovic is never in the mix. If you ...
Ryan Garcia will now revisit earlier plans. Prior talks of a potential showdown versus two-division and reigning WBC junior welterweight titlist Devin Haney (31-0, 15KOs) now appear dead in the water. Garcia instead plans to return to his prior target, WBA 140-pound titleholder Rolando Romero. “I’ve notified my team I’m going a different route,” Garcia posted Saturday morning on his ...
Fredrick Lawson suggested Thursday that Vergil Ortiz Jr. might’ve underestimated what awaits him Saturday night. Ortiz, who has knocked out every professional opponent in his 19-fight career, is listed by DraftKings sportsbook as a 25-1 favorite to beat Lawson in their 12-round, 156-pound fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. The odds are so wide because the Ghanaian-born, Chicago-based Lawson (30-3, ...
British promoter Eddie Hearn wants to make sure significant fights are not all cannibalized by Saudi Arabia. The head of Matchroom Boxing insisted in a recent in interview that there needs to be a concerted effort to ensure that high-profile domestic matchups between fighters from Ireland and the United Kingdom take place on local soil and not in the oil-producing ...