Oscar De La Hoya expressed optimism Thursday regarding Ryan Garcia challenging Devin Haney in his next fight. The founder of Golden Boy Promotions expects negotiations to intensify after his company’s event Saturday night at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Haney (31-0, 15 KOs), the newly crowned WBC super lightweight champion, and Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) have publicly confirmed their interest in ...
When it happened again, this time much closer to a fight than the two previous instances, Vergil Ortiz Jr. understandably wondered whether he would ever fight again. Severely dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion, Ortiz was on his way to a hospital in San Antonio, distraught because his shot at WBA world welterweight champion Eimantas Stanionis was postponed for the ...
Twenty twenty-three was supposed to be the year of Vergil Ortiz Jr. Just like 2022, and 2021, and 2020. Instead, we’re still waiting for the stars to align, the big fights to happen, and for the Texan to make it to the ring. It shouldn’t be like this, especially not for an ultra-talented 25-year-old who actually wants to fight. But ...
We are just over two weeks away from the IBF welterweight title fight between Natasha Jonas and Mikaela Mayer but if things had played out differently, the two might have met a long time ago. The rise of women’s boxing can be traced back to August 2009 when it was announced that the sport would debut as an Olympic event ...
Middleweight Thomas "Cornflake" LaManna (37-5-1 16KOs), ranked at number four by the WBA, has secured his seventh consecutive victory in the ring since suffering a first round knockout at the hands of Erislandy Lara. Having navigated a challenging and rigorous series of life challenges, battling mental health issues, depression and severe anxiety, "Cornflake" has racked up a growing winning streak. ...
It isn’t any fun taking on fighters who were once considered great but are now clearly past their best. It’s a normal trend in boxing. When a fighter is looking to make a name for himself, he’ll face a faded contender or former world champion who’s seen better days. It’s normal. It’s even expected but for Shakur Stevenson, he doesn’t ...
With only days away from his highly anticipated debut in his new division, undefeated, knockout sensation Vergil Ortiz, Jr. (19-0, 19 KOs) of Grand Prairie, Texas, hosted a final press conference today. He will participate in a 12-round super welterweight fight against Accra, Ghana’s Fredrick "General Okunka" Lawson (30-3, 22 KOs) who will also be debuting in the new division. ...
Tevin Farmer went from being known as one of the more active fighters around, to disappearing out of seemingly nowhere. Yet, after spending over three years on the sidelines, the 33-year-old was finally able to get back in the mix in 2023. They weren’t world beaters or even recognizable names but Farmer managed to get the rust off by picking ...
Vergil Ortiz Jr. was one of boxing’s most fascinating fighters this time two years ago. A hungry, young knockout artist, none of his first 18 opponents went the distance with him. The then-23-year-old Ortiz’s fan-friendly style made him a rising star, someone seemingly on track to fight one of the welterweight division’s established standouts and eventually elite 147-pound talent Jaron ...
Barely into the new year, former boxer Julios Cesar Chavez Jr. has thrust himself back into the tabloid limelight. In a series of vitriolic videos posted on his social media, the son of Mexican boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez castigated his father, calling him “trash” and asking him to be put in jail. Chavez Jr., who once briefly held the ...