Mexican Olympian Lindolfo Delgado is ready to enter the junior welterweight title picture. Delgado will return in a 10-rounder against compatriot Carlos "El Tiburon" Sanchez on Friday, March 29 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Delgado-Sanchez will be featured on the undercard of the 12-round junior lightweight main event between former two-weight world champion Oscar Valdez and one-time world ...
Jimmy Joe Flint believes that fans could be in for a “barnstormer” when he defends his Central Area super lightweight title against Campbell Hatton on Saturday. The fighters will meet in Sheffield, U.K., on the undercard of Dalton Smith’s intriguing 140-pound bout with big-punching Jose Zepeda. Flint (13-1-2, 3 KOs), however, thinks his fight with Hatton (14-0, 5 KOs) could ...
Sometimes in life, you find like-minded people. That’s what happened when Tsotne Rogava and Gurgen Hovhannisyan found one another. The fighters first met as amateurs. Rogava represented Ukraine at the 2020 Olympics, while Hovhannisyan was fighting for Armenia. Today, Rogava, 30, and Hovhannisyan, 26, are heavyweights with identical records (5-0, 5 KOs) and training partners in the Los Angeles area. ...
WBO cruiserweight champion Chris Billam-Smith is having to be patient. Having won his title by dropping and outpointing Lawrence Okolie in his hometown of Bournemouth last May, Billam-Smith defended his crown for the first time against Mateusz Masternak, stopping the Polish challenger in front of his South Coast fans in December. It was revealed several weeks ago that Billam-Smith’s next ...
Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz is trained by his father, not unlike many top professional boxers. Now Cruz will fight Rolando Romero for the WBA junior welterweight world title on March 30 on Amazon Prime pay-per-view. Keith Thurman vs. Sebastian Fundora is the headliner, but many eyes will be watching Cruz’s debut at a new weight class. Cruz came to fame with ...
Liam Davies may have started last week as part of an ensemble cast, but when Queensberry’s latest “Magnificent Seven” show was done and dusted, the unbeaten super bantamweight was the undoubted star of the show. Davies turned in a virtuoso display and stopped Mexico’s Erik Robles in two exciting rounds. Within the space of 16 fights, Davies, a 27-year-old from ...
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has trained with Ryan Garcia, befriended him as a mentor and recently watched him from a distance. Alvarez is concerned. In a behind-the-scenes Tuesday conversation with DAZN’s Claudia Trejos before a news conference to promote his own May 4 pay-per-view bout against Mexican countryman Jaime Munguia, Alvarez said he hopes Garcia “has people to help him.” “And ...
The candles went out on Liam Wilson’s birthday, signifying his 28th year on Monday, and he rolled over and went to sleep. Even that modest “celebration” was only metaphorical in nature – no actual candles were involved – because the Australian super featherweight contender has been hyper-focused on his training in Las Vegas ahead of a March 29 date with ...
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN presented by AutoZone: Valdez vs. Wilson/Estrada vs. Valle will be presented live Friday, March 29, at approximately 11 p.m. ET/ 8 p.m. PT exclusively on ESPN+. The event takes place at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. In the 12-round junior lightweight main event, Mexican warrior Oscar Valdez will face Australian former world title challenger ...
Anthony Yarde has described as “unrealistic” some of the demands being made in negotiations for his fight with Joshua Buatsi. The rivals are expected to fight at a venue in London in June, but before they do so not only do two fighters vying to be considered Britain’s finest at light heavyweight need to be satisfied – so, too, do ...