The embarrassment that came from getting brutally knocked out at the hands of Gervonta Davis, may have been a blessing in disguise for Rolando “Rolly” Romero. Normally, that type of defeat has led to a fighter's stock plummeting. For Romero, however, he fought well enough for both his contemporaries and fans to view him in a different light. Nowadays, Romero ...
Manny Pacquiao still has plenty of fight left in him. The eight-division champion Pacquiao retired in 2021 shortly after losing a unanimous decision to Yordenis Ugas, and he’s since hit the exhibition trail like many other past-their-prime stars have in recent years. The 45-year-old Filipino boxing icon will return for another exhibition boxing match on April 20 against muay thai ...
Ashton 'H2O' Sylve entered 2024 with plans to make a splash in the lightweight division. That quest will have to continue after this weekend’s DAZN headliner. The 20-year-old from Long Beach, California arrived at an announced weight of 140 pounds for a planned WBC Youth lightweight title fight this Friday versus Brazil’s Estivan Falcao. There was no indication during Thursday’s ...
Conor Benn and Peter Dobson went face to face at the final press conference ahead of a scheduled clash at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday February 3, live worldwide on DAZN. (photos by Ed Mulholland) Benn (22-0 14 KOs) is back in action in his second straight fight in the States after he returned from ...
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 ...