Middleweight Nico Ali Walsh (10-1, 5 KOs) defeated late-replacement opponent Charles Stanford (7-6, 4 KOs) in Saturday’s undercard at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. Ali Walsh, now training with Ismael Salas, was returning to the ESPN airwaves after his upset loss against Sona Akale last August. Stanford took the fight on Tuesday when Ali Walsh’s original opponent, ...
Jared Anderson, 24, was arrested Thursday in Michigan shortly after leading police on a series of high-speed chases, officials said. Anderson, a heavyweight from Toledo, Ohio, reached speeds of 130 mph and fled from police on three separate occasions starting at about 1:36 p.m., before crashing his Dodge Challenger into a median on southbound I-275, according to the Huron Township ...
Edgar Berlanga is on a leisurely trip in Puerto Rico this weekend to support Amanda Serrano in her fight, but he’s making sure to keep his phone close by because Canelo Alvarez could come calling at any minute. As negotiations intensify for a potential fight between Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) insists that he’s very much still ...
A Hollywood actor and a professional boxer, Javon “Wanna” Walton (1-0, 1 KO) is Jake Paul’s latest prodigy, and he fights Saturday, March 2, against Joshua Torres (0-1-1) in a four-round prelim bout. Walton’s second pro outing is billed as his ‘global debut’. While it’s unclear what that entirely means, his first fight saw him in the ring for only ...
German world title hopeful Abass Baraou claimed the vacant EBU super welterweight title with a majority-decision win over Sam Eggington last night at the Telford International Centre in Telford, England. The consensus ringside was that Baraou had comfortably defeated the experienced former British and European welterweight champion over the 12 round distance. However, the first scorecard to be announced by ...
CES Boxing returns to Rhode Island on Saturday, March 23, with a huge doubleheader at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino. The popular Jimmy Burchfield Classic Invitational amateur showcase kicks off the day's festivities at 2pm, followed by a stacked professional boxing card beginning at 7pm EST. Dominican sensation Alejandro "El Abusador" Paulino (16-0, 13 KOs) gets his first main event assignment on the pro card, battling Estivan ...
Eddie Hearn has spoken about boxing’s lawlessness and the lack of “barriers to entry”. Hearn was discussing problems in the sport alongside his rival promoter Oscar De La Hoya on DAZN, and said that peripheral figures can get in the way of the biggest deals being struck. “Boxing is a unique sport where there’s no barriers to entry,” said Hearn. ...
Jermell Charlo has been stripped of his WBA junior middleweight title, meaning the former undisputed champion has lost the last of his undisputed titles. WBA president Gilberto Mendoza informed Dan Rafael of the championship committee’s decision to relieve the 33-year-old Charlo of his final piece of title hardware. Charlo is 35-2-1 (19 KOs), now without a belt for the first ...
Nina Meinke challenges the iconic Amanda Serrano for the IBF, WBA and WBO featherweight world titles tomorrow night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, the bout signifies a change in women’s boxing. The contest, live on DAZN, sees the two women collide over 12-three minute rounds instead of the traditional 10-two minute rounds. Serrano is in a scheduled 12-round bout ...
Dmitriy Salita wants to use Salita Promotions’ Big Time Boxing USA series to revive boxing in Detroit and to stage regular fights in New York. Ardreal Holmes Jr’s victory over Marlon Harrington at Detroit’s Wayne State Fieldhouse on February 20 represented the start of their broadcast agreement with DAZN, and Salita, who once fought out of the city’s revered Kronk ...