The Japanese Boxing Commission has reportedly overturned Luis Nery’s lifetime ban from boxing in Japan ahead of a potential fight with the undisputed super bantamweight champion Naoya Inoue. Inoue, 30, is on course to make the first defence of his undisputed title – having most recently won the IBF and WBA titles from Marlon Tapales in December – at the ...
Ryan Garcia is a boxing innovator – online, if not yet in the ring. Garcia’s proficiency in leveraging Instagram and other social media platforms to build a following has led to his drawing huge crowds to his fights, without yet having won a world title. Garcia will have a chance to address the latter on April 20 when he challenges ...
Former undisputed lightweight champion and current WBC Super Lightweight Champion Devin “The Dream” Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) and international PPV star “King” Ryan Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) hosted a press conference in New York City to promote their 12-round super lightweight world championship clash. The mega-event will take place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday, April 20, exclusively live ...
It’s officially underway. WBC super lightweight champion Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia came face-to-face in New York on Tuesday, formally kicking off the road to their April 20 fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. They will do it all over again in Los Angeles on Thursday, in the second leg of their two-city media tour as momentum for their ...
ProBox TV returns on Wednesday, February 28 with a new installment of Wednesday Night Fights. The card is headlined by ‘The Million Dollar Man’ Justin Pauldo. Pauldo (17-1, 8 KOs) of Houston, Texas, made weight at a comfortable 134.8 lbs clocking in just under the 135 lbs limit of lightweight. His opponent, Miguel Madueno (30-2, 28 KOs) came in at ...
Najee Lopez believes he is the next great American light heavyweight. If that is indeed the case, Lopez’s fight on ProBox TV on Wednesday, Feb. 28, against Marcos Escudero, at ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida, is the next step in his destiny being fulfilled. “My first 10-rounder, co-main [event],” Lopez told BoxingScene. “I am super-confident in how I am ...
Devin Haney is excited to make his Barclays Center debut on April 20 against Ryan Garcia, in what will be Haney’s first defense of his WBC world super-lightweight title. The location of the fight, however, is a point of contention for Garcia. Last week he posted on the social media platform X that he would do everything he could to ...
Cast your mind back to 2019. Local heroes Anthony Crolla and Scott Quigg are both reaching the end of their outstanding careers and Manchester boxing is waiting for the next young fighter to pick up the baton and run with it. There was never an official poll taken, but it is possible that the majority of North West fight figures ...
Oscar De La Hoya is not optimistic that boxing fans will get to see Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight Jaime Munguia in May. De La Hoya was recently in New York City promoting a bout between WBC junior welterweight champion Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia, set for April 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. With the announcement of ...
Heavyweight Matty Harris has been buoyed by a message of support from Anthony Joshua as he sets out on the road to redemption this week. Harris returns to the ring on Friday night, on the Wasserman Boxing show at the Telford International Centre, following a shock first defeat of his career last summer. The 24-year-old, from Leamington Spa, was stopped by Kostiantyn ...