Teofimo Lopez (19-1, 13 KOs) and Jamaine Ortiz (17-1-1, 8 KOs) hosted their public workouts today ahead of their showdown for Lopez's WBO and Ring Magazine junior welterweight world titles this Thursday, Feb. 8 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, U.S. Olympic silver medalist ...
Of course, winning is salient but it’s always been about how you get it done. Otabek Kholmatov looks as spectacular as his record indicates. Not only does he take care of business in the ring but he flat-out runs over the competition. He may have just a handful of fights but the 25-year-old has seemingly done enough to catch the ...
WBO junior welterweight champion Teofimo Lopez is days away from making his first title defense against Jamaine Ortiz on February 8th in Las Vegas. Lopez captured the title in June of 2023 with a dominant decision win over Josh Taylor. Beyond the fight with Ortiz, Lopez has several opponents in mind for the future. He wants to eventually get in ...
Khalil Coe’s knockout of a previously unbeaten power puncher has helped convince Coe that he is more than ready to fight a legitimate light heavyweight contender next. The undefeated Jersey City, New Jersey native mentioned three British veterans that he would like to test himself against now that the decorated amateur has beaten Gerardo Osuna. Coe (8-0-1, 6 KOs) sent ...
Hopey Price looks set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on a serious hand injury. The news will come as a major blow to the undefeated Price (12-0, 5 KO’s). The 23 year old featherweight is a talented fighter but has been waiting for the opportunity to break out. It seemed like that moment had arrived. ...
Anthony Yarde feels his stock rose in the wake of Artur Beterbiev’s vicious beatdown of Callum Smith. Yarde, London, England, arguably gave Beterbiev, the IBF, WBC, WBO light heavyweight champion from Russia, the toughest outing in the ring in recent memory. The two went toe to toe in one of the more entertaining fights of 2023, but Beterbiev pulled away ...
Conor Benn obviously would welcome the fight that’s “personal” to him, a rescheduled domestic clash with Chris Eubank Jr., if Benn receives his British boxing license at the conclusion of the appellate process. There is a lower-profile fight, one within his preferred division, on which Benn has set his sights in the event the more-profitable Eubank bout doesn’t come together ...
Promoter Frank Warren insists that Tyson Fury’s shaky performance against Francis Ngannou hasn’t at all dented his confidence in his ace client ahead of a highly anticipated undisputed heavyweight championship. England’s Fury is set to defend his WBC title against WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine on May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The winner of ...
The Shigeoka brothers will once again share the stage with Tomoki Kameda—and one another. Yudai and Ginjiro Shigeoka are set for separate strawweight title defenses on the same show, the same manner in which they won their separate belts. Both will appear on the already announced March 31 ABEMA-TV card from Nagoya International Conference Hall in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Ginjiro ...
Turki Alalshikh apparently has no desire to start begging the biggest American boxing star to come over to Saudi Arabia. Alalshikh, the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in the oil-producing country, recently said in an interview that he hopes Gervonta Davis, the power puncher from Baltimore, Maryland, will fight in Saudi Arabia sometime in 2024. When an annoyed Davis ...