I WOULD LIKE to, slightly belatedly, wish you all a very Happy New Year and, boxing-wise, we have certainly got plenty to look forward to as we crack on into 2024. Already you will be aware that we are kicking off our shows with a humdinger of a middleweight fight between Hamzah Sheeraz and Liam Williams at the Copper Box ...
Canelo Alvarez is the clear-cut boss of the super middleweight division. The shiny world titles that are draped over his shoulders are one component of that statement but more than anything, whenever he enters the ring, he draws eyeballs. This year, however, has been up and down for the pound-for-pound star. His 2023 started off with a listless performance against ...
Former EBU super lightweight champ and two-time world title challenger Anthony Yigit (28-4-1) continues his busy schedule in 2024. Yigit begins the year - as previously reported by BoxingScene - with a January12th return in Stockholm. The bout is a six-rounder against Norwegian Jamshid Nazari (10-1). This fight is made at welterweight. If all goes well, then Yigit is reportedly ...
Callum Smith is going to score an explosive knockout when he faces IBF, WBC, WBA light heavyweight king Artur Beterbiev, according to the challenger's older brother, retired fighter Paul Smith. Callum, a former super middleweight champion, will travel to hostile soil when he faces Beterbiev on Saturday night in Canada. The British boxer is a tremendous underdog in the contest. ...
Daniel Cormier is backing fellow former UFC champion Francis Ngannou in his upcoming fight against British superstar Anthony Joshua. In his second professional fight as a boxer, Ngannou will go up against the former two-time heavyweight champion on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou made his boxing debut against WBC champion Tyson Fury last October. In a very unexpected ...
Last year was sort of weird for Keyshawn Davis. He breezed through Anthony Yigit, stopping him in the ninth round. He then won virtually every round against Francesco Patera. The end of his year, however, was when things got strange. In October, Davis scraped by Nahir Albright via majority decision. He was then set to take on Jose Pedraza before ...
Former welterweight champion Kell Brook, if he returned to the ring, would embrace the possibility of fighting Chris Eubank Jr. Brook retired from the sport in 2022, after scoring a knockout over career rival Amir Khan. Last year, Brook had a ringside scuffle with welterweight Conor Benn in Dublin. Because of Benn's ongoing drug testing saga, Brook would prefer a fight ...
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is scheduled to collide with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, Ngannou has not forgotten about a potential rematch with WBC world champion Tyson Fury. Last October, Ngannou made his professional boxing debut against Fury. Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, dropped Fury in the third round and ...
Ismael Barroso made sure to get right to the point in a second chance opportunity he wasn’t sure would come his way. The newly crowned interim WBA junior welterweight titlist instantly emerged as a cult favorite following his first-round knockout of heavily favored contender Ohara Davies. Their January 6 DAZN-aired co-feature from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas came about only after ...
Now that Ryan Garcia has changed his mind about finally fighting Devin Haney, Bill Haney and his son have shifted their attention toward another rival. A showdown with Teofimo Lopez is the newly crowned WBC super lightweight champion’s highest-profile alternative to fighting Garcia in the 140-pound division. Bill Haney informed FightHype.com’s Sean Zittel on Saturday night in Las Vegas that ...