At times, the opponents of Edgar Berlanga can get caught up in his shiny and impressive record. Can you blame them? The 26-year-old is undefeated, and prior to his five-fight decision streak, Berlanga scored 16 consecutive first-round knockouts. On paper, and in the ring, he looks the part. But while some may saunter their way through the arena with a ...
Tom Brown wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the first fight on the pay-per-view portion of the Tim Tszyu-Keith Thurman undercard March 30 in Las Vegas goes down as the most memorable match of the entire night. The president of TGB Promotions, the primary promoter for Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions, considers Sebastian Fundora-Serhii Bohachuk a can’t-miss, all-action fight ...
Ryan Garcia thought that his options were never-ending. But, he slowly realized that no one was willing to wait on him. The 25-year-old desperately needed to bounce back. Gervonta Davis, at roughly the mid-way point of 2023, stripped him of his undefeated record. Following that stoppage defeat, Garcia took out Oscar Duarte. With his confidence getting to where he needed ...
Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions has announced the addition of numerous top New York City fan favorites to the highly anticipated St. Patrick’s Day Weekend event on Friday, March 15 in The Theater at Madison Square Garden and broadcast live globally on UFC Fight Pass. The event is headlined by Callum Walsh, (9-0, 7 KOs), of Cork, Ireland clashing with hard-hitting ...
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman will be a very interested part in some of the upcoming heavyweight fights in Saudi Arabia. On March 8th, former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua will collide with MMA veteran Francis Ngannou. "Anthony Joshua was first ranked by the WBC when he started as a professional and then he kept moving up and was ranked ...
Most handicappers have given Peter Dobson less than a 10 percent chance of upsetting Conor Benn on Saturday in Las Vegas. An admittedly distracted Benn believes, though, that he is only operating at 25 percent of his capabilities because his well-documented performance-enhancing drug ordeal is still hanging over his head. The unbeaten Benn is awaiting a hearing date for the ...
The embarrassment that came from getting brutally knocked out at the hands of Gervonta Davis, may have been a blessing in disguise for Rolando “Rolly” Romero. Normally, that type of defeat has led to a fighter's stock plummeting. For Romero, however, he fought well enough for both his contemporaries and fans to view him in a different light. Nowadays, Romero ...
Manny Pacquiao still has plenty of fight left in him. The eight-division champion Pacquiao retired in 2021 shortly after losing a unanimous decision to Yordenis Ugas, and he’s since hit the exhibition trail like many other past-their-prime stars have in recent years. The 45-year-old Filipino boxing icon will return for another exhibition boxing match on April 20 against muay thai ...
Ashton 'H2O' Sylve entered 2024 with plans to make a splash in the lightweight division. That quest will have to continue after this weekend’s DAZN headliner. The 20-year-old from Long Beach, California arrived at an announced weight of 140 pounds for a planned WBC Youth lightweight title fight this Friday versus Brazil’s Estivan Falcao. There was no indication during Thursday’s ...
Conor Benn and Peter Dobson went face to face at the final press conference ahead of a scheduled clash at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday February 3, live worldwide on DAZN. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Benn (22-0 14 KOs) is back in action in his second straight fight in the States after he returned from ...