The highly anticipated matchup between WBC super lightweight titlist Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia was already a done deal. The fight was announced on Feb. 9 and a viral showdown between the fighters ensued in a fiery fashion immediately after in Las Vegas during Super Bowl festivities. It was believed that the bout would be staged in Las Vegas as ...
Middleweight Elijah Garcia might be the next middleweight star. Garcia will fight veteran Kyrone Davis in the main event of the Amazon Prime prelims before the Keith Thurman versus Tim Tszyu PPV card on Saturday, March 30 from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Garcia is a fourth-generation boxer. Fighting is the family business and the Garcias seem to pass down ...
Andre Ward was one of the greatest fighters of his era. Ward, from Oakland, California, was the last male US Olympic gold medalist and an undefeated two-weight world champion who has become a voice for many boxers who are voiceless. Ward recently spoke at a private event hosted by former world title contender Brandon Gonzales, and Ward discussed whether boxing ...
Junto Nakatani has revealed his struggles to make the super flyweight limit contributed to him moving up to bantamweight to challenge the WBC champion Alexandro Santiago. On Saturday, at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, he fights at 118lbs for the first time, having made one defence of the WBO 115lbs title he so impressively won when stopping Andrew Moloney at ...
Edgar Berlanga doesn’t believe Padraig McCrory is “dangerous” enough to pose him a threat when on Saturday they fight. They fight at super middleweight at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, when the 26-year-old Berlanga is again the favourite and again under pressure to impress. In his first fight under Matchroom, when he was perhaps in contention to fight Saul “Canelo” ...
Teddy Atlas reckons Edgar Berlanga would have learned more in his last five fights than his first 16 combined. The trainer and analyst believes that Berlanga did not develop much after an introduction to the pros that saw him win his first 16 fights, all by first-round knockouts. Berlanga then went eight rounds with Demond Nicholson, had three 10-rounders to ...
Japan’s Junto Nakatani – who fights Alexandro Santiago for the WBC bantamweight title at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo on Saturday – can fight. For a fighter who’s already won titles at flyweight and super flyweight he’s tall, and his reputation’s growing. His knockout of Andrew Moloney in May 2023 was impressive. Moloney had already established himself in the US, so for Nakatani to knock him out ...
IBF welterweight champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis is looking for a new promoter. It had recently been reported that he had been in discussions with a number of promoters, including Matchroom. Ennis, 26, was upgraded to the status of champion as a consequence of Terence Crawford’s contractual obligation to negotiate a rematch with Errol Spence. Philadelphia’s Ennis most recently recorded a ...
Since boxing began, newspapers, magazines, television channels and websites have used the same time-honoured way of assessing a fighter and their capabilities. They will work their way down a checklist and put their scores or thoughts alongside a series of categories. Usually tagged on to the end, alongside sections like “Boxing ability” and “Chin”, there will be another: “Intangibles.” It is ...
The man Edgar Berlanga hopes to fight someday soon, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, is fond of saying: “No boxing, no life.” Berlanga knows there’s more to it than that. Did he always feel that way? That’s something only he knows in his heart, but, at least today, the super-middleweight contender is well aware that no boxing doesn’t mean the end of ...