According to most, Joseph Parker was supposed to be a tenuous stepping stone for Deontay Wilder. We all know what the end goal was, a dinner date with Anthony Joshua. All that Wilder needed to do was knock Parker’s head off his shoulders, something he had done to practically everyone not named Tyson Fury. But, no matter how great Wilder ...
Just about everyone was flummoxed when it came to the status of Teofimo Lopez. Although he had all of the belts at 135 pounds at one point, that green title he walked around with seemed a bit fraudulent. First, let’s go back. When Lopez laid out Richard Commey back in 2019, he pilfered his IBF lightweight title. At the time, ...
Keith Thurman, almost with a wink, ramped up the promotional bravado toward the end of a press conference Wednesday in Los Angeles. A theatrical Thurman promised to send a disappointed Tim Tszyu back home to Australia, where he’ll have to cry to his dad, former 140-pound champ Kostya Tszyu, and admit that he underestimated Thurman when he accepted their fight. ...
Tim Tszyu didn’t mention names Wednesday, but the emerging Australian star made his feelings perfectly clear about most of his contemporaries. Tszyu commended Keith Thurman for moving up in weight to fight him March 30 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The WBO junior middleweight champion doesn’t have nearly as much respect for fighters that Tszyu feels have avoided him ...
Ryan Garcia apparently has no plans on giving up the shoulder roll from his repertoire. The junior welterweight star from Victorville, Calif., flummoxed viewers in his last fight, in December, against Oscar Duarte, by deciding to employ the defensive technique associated with the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and James Toney. Garcia previously never tried using the shoulder roll in ...
The delayed but eagerly awaited middleweight fight between Hamzah Sheeraz and Liam Williams is now less than two weeks away. Sheeraz has recovered from the perforated eardrum which caused the fight to be postponed late last year and the two will finally meet at the Copperbox Arena on February 10th. Former WBO featherweight champion, Colin McMillan, has been advising Sheeraz ...
The wait wasn’t ideal but Joshua Buatsi can live with the timing of his high-profile domestic showdown. The 2016 Olympic Bronze medalist and top-rated contender faces fellow unbeaten British light heavyweight Dan Azeez. Their scheduled twelve-round contest is a sanctioned WBA title eliminator, which will leave the winner as the mandatory challenger to current titlist Dmitry Bivol (22-0, 11KOs). With ...
Seventeen-year-old junior lightweight phenom Curmel Moton will be featured on the undercard of the March 30 show headlined by Tim Tszyu and Keith Thurman at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe told BoxingScene.com in an interview. The standout amateur sensation and Floyd Mayweather-protege Moton (2-0, 2 KOs) made his pro debut in September and scored ...
Two heavyweights who produced impressive victories on the “Day of Reckoning” undercard December 23 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia have been ordered to fight next by the WBC. BoxingScene.com has learned that the Mexico City-based sanctioning organization has initiated a voluntary negotiating period between representatives for Frank Sanchez and Agit Kabayel. Cuba’s Sanchez (24-0, 17 KOs) is the WBC’s second-ranked contender ...
Antonio Moran remained perfect in the venue that previously provided a ‘Last Chance’ to his career. The battle-tested bubble contender outclassed the Philippines’ Romero Duno, who was down twice and put down for good in the sixth round of their ProBox TV-aired lightweight bout. Referee Gene Del Bianco reached the count of ten to end the fight at 1:25 of ...