Anthony Yarde and Joshua Buatsi remain on course for an eagerly awaited light heavyweight showdown. On consecutive weekends last month, Buatsi first regained the British title by outfighting South London rival Dan Azeez on Sky Sports and then took his seat at ringside to watch Yarde dispatch the overmatched Marko Nikilic inside three one-sided rounds. Two-time world-title challenger Yarde (25-3, ...
Not long after Conor Benn and Manny Pacquiao came face-to-face in Saudi Arabia, Benn’s bitter domestic rival Chris Eubank Jr. teased a fight poster advertising a contest between himself and Terence Crawford. While there has been no confirmation whatsoever from Eubank’s side or Team Crawford that a potential fight between the middleweight from Brighton in the UK and the brilliant ...
Lauren Price will fulfil the two targets she set herself as a professional fighter if she defeats Jessica McCaskill on May 11. She challenges the WBA and Ring Magazine welterweight champion at the Utility Arena in Cardiff, Wales, meaning that for the first time she will be paid to fight in the country of her birth. Her other ambition as ...
Jessica McCaskill sees in Lauren Price the fighter McCaskill was when she was preparing to fight Katie Taylor in 2017. On the occasion of both of their seventh professional fights – Taylor had significantly more amateur experience – McCaskill fought the celebrated WBA lightweight champion, and despite defeat significantly enhanced her reputation. In her following fight she fought for and won the ...
Former world champion Chris Algieri believes the May 4 all-Mexican clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia could turn into a shootout. The fight was formally announced this week following weeks of intense speculation about who would broadcast and who would promote the fight, with Munguia fighting off competition from Edgar Berlanga to be in the opposite corner in ...
Cardiff, UK (March 13, 2024) – Olympic Gold Medallist Lauren Price MBE will challenge Jessica McCaskillfor the WBA, IBO and Ring Magazine World Welterweight Titles on Saturday, May 11th at the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and Peacock in the USA. Following a glittering amateur career that saw her claim Commonwealth, ...
Come one, come all, professional boxers: I’m about to tell you how to land a huge fight. Here’s all you have to do: win. Stay undefeated if you can. That’s the most important thing. If you just keep winning, no one will be able to ignore you anymore. You’ll get a fight with a pound-for-pound talent or a huge ...
Pierce O’Leary believes he is primed for a career-best performance when he boxes the unbeaten Belgian Hovhannes Martirosyan on Queensberry Promotions’ ”Magnificent Seven” on Saturday. After spending years training with Alan Smith at the iBox Gym in Kent, the super lightweight decided that he needed a change. O’Leary has a young family in Ireland and leaving them behind to spend ...
“Mighty” Brook Sibrian is balancing a profession with a passion, while being co-signed by a future Hall of Famer Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Sibrian is scheduled to return to action on April 20 and once again on a Tom Loeffler-promoted 360 Promotions card with this one taking place from the site of her last bout, the Commerce Casino in Commerce, California. ...
Serhii Bohachuk fights for his first world title with a lot on his mind. Bohachuk (23-1, 23 KOs) faces Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 30. Bohachuk was in Ukraine waiting on his visa to return to the United States before the conflict began. Bohachuk had to go through ...