Gervonta Davis took to social media platform X to reveal the offer he had received for a potential bout with Conor Benn. Benn was last in action on February 3, against Peter Dobson at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, defeating Dobson over 12 rounds to claim a unanimous points win as the 27-year-old Benn continued to rebuild his career following ...
Manny Robles has high hopes for Cuban prospect Osvel Caballero. Caballero stopped Jason Buenaobra (10-10-3, 4 KOs) in the fourth-round of the TV opener on the 360 Promotions card last night (February 23). The fight marked Caballero’s US debut and he boxed a little bit above the featherweight limit between, 127 and 128lbs, improving to 5-0, with four knockouts with ...
Edgar Berlanga will get another opportunity to prove his promise and potential when he takes on Padraig McCrory on Saturday at the Caribe Royale in Orlando. The fight will headline a Matchroom Boxing card on DAZN. Berlanga (21-0, 16 KOs) has fizzled a bit recently after kicking off his career to a sizzling start with 16 straight first-round knockout wins. ...
Takuma Inoue made the first defense of his WBA bantamweight title by impressively stopping Jerwin Ancajas in nine rounds at Tokyo’s Kokugikan. In what perhaps represented the finest performance of his career – and certainly his finest win – he ended the improving Ancajas’ challenge 44 seconds into the ninth round with a powerful right hand to the body. It ...
Kosei Tanaka added to his impressive collection of belts and is now a champion at 115lbs having won belts at 105, 108 and 112. The new WBO super flyweight champion won the vacant title with a solid victory over Mexican co-challenger Christian Bacasegua, flooring the Mexican in round eight and earning the decision on all three scorecards by margins of ...
Future Hall of Famer Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez, a four-division world champion, has a new weight class. His last fight was in 2022, a majority-decision loss to Juan Francisco Estrada. Since then, not much news has surfaced from Gonzalez’s camp Gonzalez, who was in Santa Ynez, California in support of Tom Loeffler’s 360 Promotions exclusively spoke to BoxingScene and confirmed his ...
Ryan Garcia has taken to social media to criticise the decision to stage his April 20 fight with Devin Haney in New York. The former amateur rivals meet at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in one of the showpiece events of the year. The location has been a talking point, with the WBC super lightweight fight heading to the East ...
Of all of boxing’s clichés, few hold more truth than the claim that a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter. Nothing is more certain to make a fighter unhappy than struggling to make weight. The feeling can last for weeks on end and comes with a growing feeling of dread about just how bad the final 24 hours before the ...
Heavyweight contender Zhilei Zhang has said he is focused on just one man ahead of his return to the ring. Zhang meets experienced New Zealander Joseph Parker in Saudi Arabia on March 8, and he is not looking beyond the former WBO champion. Zhang told Seconds Out that while his training team, including Shaun George, is putting in the work ...
Luis Alberto “Venado” Lopez is determined to turn his third world title defense into a war of attrition. Lopez will defend his IBF featherweight world title against Japanese contender Reiya Abe on Saturday, March 2 at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Lopez-Abe will serve as the co-feature to the vacant WBA featherweight world championship showdown between Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov and American standout Raymond Ford. ...