Vergil Ortiz Jr. initially thought that Tony Weeks stopped his fight with Fredrick Lawson too soon Saturday night. In hindsight, Ortiz realized that the veteran Nevada referee probably spared Lawson from suffering a brutal knockout defeat in their 12-round, 156-pound fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Weeks has drawn intense criticism for stepping between Ortiz and Lawson and halting another ...
Another year is in the books and it was a doozy both in and out of the ring. Fans said farewell to Showtime and hello to Amazon Prime. Tank-Davis-Ryan Garca lit up the box office, Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue lit up the month of July with twin career defining performances, Tyson Fury got knocked on his ass by an ...
Moroccan super featherweight Moussa Gholam (20-1, 12 KOs) will headline “Rising Stars Arabia: The Revolution,” promoted by AAM Seddiqi Sports and sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), on January 13th at Yas Links Golf Course in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Rising Stars Arabia (RSA) series is the first of its kind ...
Rising heavyweight contender Frazer Clarke is expecting former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua to secure a dominant win over MMA veteran Francis Ngannou. Joshua has reached an agreement to collide with Ngannou on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou has become a heavyweight player after a better than expected performance against WBC champion Tyson Fury last October in Saudi Arabia. ...
During the 2000s in particular, the province of Quebec in Canada produced some of the most electric atmospheres on the global boxing scene. The province has been fight-crazed since the 1900s, but an influx of world-level talent and North American broadcast distribution in particular created a shining golden era for the sport in Canada. Jean Pascal, Lucian Bute, Adonis Stevenson ...
Three Lions Promotions (TLP) will present their first show of 2024 with fellow Canadians Antonio Napolitano (8-0-1, 4 KOs) of St. Catharines ON and Ryan Young (15-5-0, 11 KOs) of Oakville, ON headlining the card over 10 rounds for the NCC Canadian middleweight title at The Hamilton Convention Centre in Hamilton, ON Canada on March 30th. The duo will be ...
Tim Tszyu saw all that he needed from Vergil Ortiz Jr’s brief ring appearance to know he found the perfect future rival. Both boxers expressed an interest in a head-on collision in the aftermath of Ortiz’s junior middleweight debut this past Saturday atop a DAZN show from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. A first-round stoppage of Fredrick Lawson was dismissed by ...
Teofimo Lopez Jr. was not impressed with the latest approach by Arnold Barboza Jr. to try and make a fight. It wasn’t so much his recent in-ring performance, though the two-division lineal champion and reigning 140-pound king had advice for that part as well. “Barboza needs to focus on getting better because he looked terrible,” Lopez insisted to a ...
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya hopes Ryan Garcia’s bromance with Floyd Mayweather Jr. results in some improvements to Garcia’s defense. The head of Golden Boy Promotions was recently asked to respond to a video on social media showing his ace client going on a late night run with Mayweather, and De La Hoya, a longtime rival of Mayweather, in and ...
Kazuto Ioka did what was necessary to keep alive his time-honored tradition of a title fight on New Year’s Eve. Now is the part where he continues to add to his legacy. A seventh-round knockout of Venezuela’s Josber Perez was the alternate plan come to life after Ioka (31-2-1, 16KOs) was unable to reach terms for a unification bout versus ...