Home favourite Ray Moylette brought the curtain down on his boxing career by earning a hard-fought decision over Argentina's Requiem Arce in Castlebar on Sunday night. Moylette, who was awarded a score of 76-75, recognised afterwards that the verdict could have gone either way after he climbed off the canvas in the second round and survived a savage onslaught at ...
There was disappointment for Irish boxing favourite Gary Spike O'Sullivan on Sunday night when he was outpointed by French puncher Sophiane Khati in a hugely entertaining middleweight contest in Castlebar. The Cork fighter hadn't fought since losing a WBA middleweight title fight to Erislandy Lara in New York in May 2022, and never hit the high spots against his impressive, ...
Dillian Whyte lived up to his “Body Snatcher” profile when stopping Christian Hammer in Castlebar on Sunday night. The Brixton heavyweight's power forced Hammer to quit on his stool before the start of the fourth round, but Whyte was far from happy. The fight was his first since he was replaced by Robert Helenius as Anthony Joshua’s opponent in August ...
Heavyweight Joe Joyce (16-2, 15KOs) bounced back from consecutive early defeats in 2023 to Zhilei Zhang (26-2-1, 21KOs) with a 10th-round stoppage of Kash Ali (21-2, 12KOs) in Birmingham. Joyce toiled for several rounds before finishing the contest strongly. The former Olympic silver medalist upped his workrate and began throwing and landing combinations to enforce his will on Ali. Joyce ...
Few American fighters are as decorated as Ruben Villa was in the amateurs. Villa (21-1, 7 KOs) returns April 13 in Corpus Christi, Texas, against Cristian Cruz Chacon (22-6-1, 11 KOs) in a 10-round fight. The featherweight Villa, a proud Salinas, California native is hoping to achieve his dream this year, and that is to win a world title. Raymond ...
The first fighter uttered from the mouths of both William Zepeda and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya following Zepeda’s beatdown of Maxi Hughes Saturday night was Shakur Stevenson. Bob Arum, Stevenson’s promoter, welcomes De La Hoya to now make his first Sunday phone call to Arum. “Let Oscar call me and I’ll get that fight done for July,” Arum ...
Gary Lockett expects Liam Williams to announce his retirement. The trainer rescued his fighter, 31, in the first round of his fight in February with the promising Hamzah Sheeraz, after watching him twice get knocked down. Williams, according to Lockett, is “struggling” to adjust to a new life that doesn’t involve being a professional fighter, but knows that his career ...
Bill Haney has no idea what Ryan Garcia is doing with his Instagram account or in the gym. What Haney is most focused on is preparing his son, world 140-pound champion Devin Haney, for an April 20 title defense at Barclays Center in Brooklyn and to avoid behavior that could compromise the Garcia showdown. So when unbeaten lightweight champion Shakur ...
Callum Walsh has only been a professional prizefighter for two-and-a-quarter years, enough time to log 10 wins from 10 fights. A quick glance at his boxing record reveals something else apart from the victories and KOs: he means to make St. Patrick’s Day his, in the same way that Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez sought to capture the ...
Paulie Malignaggi believes that regardless of the strength in depth at both lightweight and super lightweight, one man stands above all of the others. The outspoken New Yorker thinks that when all is said and done, that Shakur Stevenson will rise above his contemporaries, including Gervonta “Tank” Davis if they were to ever box. Newark star Stevenson is 21-0 (10 ...