Two members of the growing Quincy, MA.-Granite Chin Promotions (GCP) stable of boxers, middleweights Antonio Todd (16-9, 9 KOs) and Julien “Black Dragon” Baptiste, will make their Madison Square Garden debuts in separate bouts on the February 16th Top Rank card. Todd, fighting out of Atlanta, faces 2020 Dominican Republic Olympian Euri Cedeno (7-0-1, 6 KOs), while Baptiste takes on ...
Diego Pacheco could not have been more pleased to hear Edgar Berlanga’s team finally mention his name. A once-unthinkable matchup between the pair of unbeaten super middleweights has now been teased as a possibility for later this year. Brooklyn’s Berlanga is currently due to face Belfast’s Paidrag McCrory (18-0, 9KOs) atop a February 24 DAZN show from Orlando, Florida. A ...
Artur Beterbiev has evidently grown very weary over Dmitry Bivol’s constant proclamations about fighting each other. The Russian light heavyweight champions could finally be nearing an agreement to put their respective titles on the line for the undisputed 175-pound championship later this year. Momentum for the fight kicked into a new gear after Beterbiev brutally dispatched challenger Callum Smith of ...
Artur Beterbiev wasn’t the only unbeaten, Montreal-based fighter trained by Marc Ramsey who impressed Eddie Hearn on Saturday night. The British promoter also scouted Christian Mbilli, who battered brave Australian Rohan Murdock until Murdock’s handlers stopped their fight after the sixth round at Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. Hearn came away from Mbilli’s impressive performance thinking the unbeaten Cameroon ...
Erislandy Lara is back on the hook to honor a long overdue mandatory title defense. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the WBA has ordered Lara to next defend his middleweight title versus Australia’s Michael Zerafa. Both parties were notified of the development on Monday via official letter, a copy of which was obtained by BoxingScene.com. “WBA rules entitle the President and ...
After the success of their stacked ‘Magnificent Seven’ show last November, Queensberry look set to continue with the winning formula by promoting another multi-title card in Birmingham on March 16th. European super bantamweight champion Liam Davies, British middleweight champion Nathan Heaney and former British super middleweight champion Zach Parker are all rumored to be in action on the show but ...
Eddie Hearn remains confident in Dmitry Bivol’s ability to defeat Artur Beterbiev, even after the British promoter watched what he called “a freak of nature” dismantle another fighter his company represents Saturday night. For Bivol to beat Beterbiev, however, Hearn understands that the WBA light heavyweight champion won’t be able to simply outbox the rugged Russian knockout artist. Bivol will ...
It’s time. It’s past time. Lineal world light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev retained history’s throne for the fifth time on Saturday, handing former WBA super middleweight titlist Callum Smith his first stoppage loss. At a perfect 20-0, all of them inside the distance, it confirmed what we already knew. The man who finally defeats Beterbiev, if age, injury, and inactivity ...
Adam Azim continues his development next month when he defends his European super lightweight title against Denmark’s unbeaten Enock Poulsen. The 21-year-old is one of the most eye-catching natural talents to have emerged in Britain for some time but even the most gifted fighters benefit from a touch of competition and Azim has a serious rivalry quietly brewing. A fight ...
While Anthony Joshua is backing Oleksandr Usyk to come away victorious next month, he admits that a showdown with Tyson Fury is more preferable. Usyk and Fury will collide in an undisputed showdown on February 17 in Saudi Arabia, with the WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC titles at stake. Joshua dropped back-to-back decision losses to Usyk - but since those ...