Daniel Dubois is out as co-challenger for the vacant EBU heavyweight title and Joe “Juggernaut” Joyce (15-2) is in. In the other corner is still German Granit Shala (15-0). The EBU has set February 29 as the deadline for purse bids. Joyce is still lined up to fight Kash Ali (21-2) March 16 in Birmingham. ................................. Icelandic heavyweight Gunnar Kolbeinn ...
Antonio Vargas is hoping to reclaim the glory that was once promised to him. The 2016 U.S. Olympian will fight Jonathan Rodriguez in a WBA bantamweight world title eliminator on Saturday (February 24) at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. The bout will be on the Edgar Berlanga versus Padraig McCrory undercard, broadcast on DAZN. The winner is the mandatory ...
Ricards Bolotniks wants to bring competitive fights back to his native Riga, Latvia. The Latvian light heavyweight, 20-7-1 (8 KOs), appeared from relative obscurity with wins over the UK’s Steven Ward and Hosea Burton in 2019 and 2020, following up with a knockout victory over the undefeated Serge Michel. Bolotniks was the underdog every time. He eventually lost to Joshua ...
At the press conference to announce their April 27 rematch, Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall seemed ready to throw down then and there. As they faced off on the stage, Taylor jabbed Catterall in the chest, Catterall grabbed Taylor by the throat, security pulled them apart, and Catterall tried to take one more pop at his rival before the two ...
Junto Nakatani will “walk out” with Alexandro Santiago’s WBC bantamweight title on Saturday in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, believes his former opponent Andrew Moloney. The 26-year-old Nakatani secured a title at super flyweight, and therefore a second weight, when defeating Moloney for the vacant WBO title last May via a highlight-reel 12th-round knockout. “I’m very interested to see how ...
Edgar Berlanga meets the undefeated Irishman Padraig McCrory in Orlando, Florida this Saturday, when the moving parts in one of boxing’s brightest weight classes will again shuffle. The super middleweight division has got the sport talking – several top contenders are in pursuit of boxing’s top draw, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. There are, among others, David Benavidez, Jaime Munguia, David Morrell, ...
US Olympian Keyshawn Davis landed a career-best win earlier this month against Jose Pedraza in Las Vegas, serving as the chief support to Teofimo Lopez’s title defense against Jamaine Ortiz. Davis (10-0, 7KOs) produced a near-perfect performance to dismantle and halt the former world champion Pedraza in six rounds before proceeding to call out Lopez following a moment of crossed ...
Mexican veteran Pablo Cesar Cano steps back into the trenches on Saturday night for the 46th time as a professional. The super lightweight contender features in the co-main event at the Caribe Royale in Orlando against the undefeated Shakhram Giyasov, before Edgar Berlanga-Padraig McCrory. Uzbek Giyasov, 14-0 (9 KOs), is the favourite, but Cano is hoping to score his 26th ...
The undefeated welterweight Gor Yeritsyan is ready to make his mark on one of boxing’s glamor divisions. The Freddie Roach-trained Yeritsyan (17-0, 14 KOs) again steps up on Friday when he fights Quinton Randall (13-1-1, 3 KOs) to headline a Tom Loefller 360 Promotions show at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. “It's my first main event on UFC ...
Former world light heavyweight and heavyweight champion Michael Moorer believes there is room at the top for another weight division in boxing. Moorer will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June, and he called it a day from fighting in 2008 with a record of 52-4-1 (40 KOs). He became the first southpaw world heavyweight champion, ...