Gabriela Fundora never panicked Saturday night. Christina Cruz outboxed her during the first half of their IBF flyweight title, but the aggressive, patient, stronger Fundora began landing harder shots during the sixth round and took complete control of their 10-round championship clash on the Jaime Munguia-John Ryder undercard at Footprint Center in Phoenix. Fundora (13-0, 6 KOs), the younger sister ...
Jaime Munguia is looking to accomplish something Canelo Alvarez couldn't – a knockout of against John Ryder. Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) and Ryder (32-6, 18 KOs) will square off Jan. 27 in a super middleweight scrap at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on DAZN. Should Munguia score a stoppage victory against the Brit, he’ll build a stronger case in garnering ...
John Ryder realizes he won while losing the biggest fight of his career 8½ months ago. The scorecards reflect Ryder wasn’t all that competitive with Canelo Alvarez in their 12-round, 168-pound championship clash. The resilient Ryder displayed gumption after suffering a broken nose just before the second round ended, however, and got up from a knockdown just before the midway ...
Belfast - Limerick’s Paddy Donovan is building some real momentum and after stopping English welterweight champion Danny Ball in November, he got straight back to action with a WBA Continental title defense against Argentina’s Williams Andres Herrera. Donovan controlled the opening round with his southpaw jab. It wasn’t a hard, ram rod jab and he wasn’t busting Herrera up but ...
Belfast - Leli Buttigieg got his professional career off to a flying start last month with a first round stoppage but the super welterweight was made to work much harder by Artjom Spatar in the first fight of Matchroom’s show in Belfast tonight. Buttigieg began the fight by working behind a heavy jab and quickly reddened Spater’s right eye but ...
The super lightweight division has been talked about a ton over the years. This wasn’t always the case. But, with several recognizable and popular 135-pounders making the move up in weight, more and more eyeballs have gravitated towards it. Currently, there are no vacant titles available. Devin Haney holds the division’s WBC title, Rolando “Rolly” Romero has the WBA strap ...
Zhilei Zhang’s trainer is certain that his focused heavyweight is taking Joseph Parker much more seriously than Deontay Wilder did December 23. Shaun George got the sense that Wilder overlooked Parker prior to their 12-round fight last month. Wilder paid a steep price for his surprising, lopsided points loss to Parker at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia because it ...
It turns out, Ryan Garcia doesn’t hold all of the cards at 140 pounds. Although he came up short against Gervonta Davis in 2023, the 25-year-old believes he became a pay-per-view star overnight. According to reports, Garcia played a huge role in their PPV generating over one million buys. He might be beltless, but Garcia has a big name and ...
A recharged Matty Harris starts out on the heavyweight comeback trail on Friday, March 1 in Telford as part of a night of European title action. Also added to the Wasserman Boxing event at the Telford International Centre, is one of British boxing’s young stars, Dan Toward who has made a flying start to life as a professional. The Wasserman ...
EARLY LAST WEEK we, officially, set the ball rolling for what is likely to become the biggest year in modern boxing history. London last Monday evening marked the launch of the media activity for ‘Knockout Chaos’, which will take place on Friday March 8 in Riyadh, featuring the colossal collision between Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou. I don’t need to ...