The super middleweight who wants to challenge Canelo Alvarez next and the 168-pound contender who lost his last fight to Alvarez made weight Friday for their own showdown Saturday night. Jaime Munguia got on the Arizona Boxing & MMA Commission’s scale at 167.8 pounds for their 12-round main event at Footprint Center in Phoenix. His opponent, British southpaw John Ryder, ...
The stunning city of Oaxaca in Mexico hosts Matchroom for the first time as a thrilling night of elite boxing awaits on Friday, February 16 – live worldwide on DAZN. Nestled within the breathtaking, hillside views, the spectacular open-air Auditorium Guelaguetza will see home favorite Adrian Curiel defend his IBF World Light-Flyweight title in what promises to be a scintillating ...
Former two-division world champion Jose “Sniper” Pedraza hosted a media workout yesterday at Felix Pagan Pintor Municipal Boxing Gym in his hometown of Cidra, Puerto Rico, ahead of his 10-round battle against Keyshawn Davis on Thursday, Feb. 8 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Davis-Pedraza will serve as the co-feature to the junior ...
Lightweight William “El Camaron” Zepeda (29-0, 25 KOs) of San Mateo Atenco, Mexico will face his first English fighter and former IBO World Champion Maxi “Maximus” Hughes (26-6-2, 5 KOs) in a 12-round IBF and WBA Lightweight World Championship Eliminator. “Zepeda is a wrecking ball every time he steps into the ring — and with a title shot hanging in ...
Lewis Crocker will have to seek redemption the ring. The locally-based welterweight miserably missed weight ahead of his scheduled ten-round regional title fight versus Mexico’s Jose Felix. Crocker tipped the scales at a beefy 150 pounds, three pounds above the divisional limit. Felix checked in at a fight ready 146.6 pounds for Saturday’s DAZN main event from Ulster Hall in ...
The head of the World Boxing Council declined to say if his organization will take part in a highly anticipated light heavyweight title unification showdown between Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol. Beterbiev, the WBC, WBO, IBF champion, and Bivol, the WBA titlist, are expected to meet in the ring later this summer in Saudi Arabia, increasingly the capital of high-profile ...
Cheavon 'Chev' Clarke (7-0, 5 KO’s) gets his 2024 campaign underway in ambitious fashion this weekend when he travels to Belfast to fight former European champion Tommy McCarthy (20-5, 10 KO’s). Clarke boxed three times last year, improving with each outing. His explosive style hinting that he may develop into an interesting and exciting edition to the world cruiserweight scene. ...
Former IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook has told William Hill’s Simon Jordan, that he doubted himself for the first time in his career in the lead up to his fight with middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin. Brook recounted the first two losses of his career to Golovkin and Errol Spence Jnr. and the impact they both had on him as a ...
Boxing is a fragmented sport. Arguments are the norm between fighters and fans and getting on the same page with anyone is a rarity. Yet, even with so many differing opinions, practically everyone expected Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford to be a competitive fight. Two top-five pound-for-pound level stars with effective skills and undeniable wills? No matter which side ...
Erik Bazinyan stayed busy Thursday night by battering a huge underdog who was noticeably smaller than him. The Armenian-born, Quebec-based Bazinyan battered Billi Godoy for two-plus rounds, until the undefeated super middleweight contender finished his overmatched opponent in the third round of the main event of an Eye of The Tiger card at Casino de Montreal in Montreal. A chopping ...