Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has no doubt that his boxer will be ready to go for the rescheduled date with WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Usyk. The fight was on pace to take place on February 17, but it was recently pushed back to May 18 - after Fury sustained a severe cut in training ...
Eye of the Tiger's new recruit, Osleys Iglesias (9-0, 8 KOs), will arrive in Montreal for the first time to compete in a 12-round bout on March 7. To make a proper introduction, the current IBO champion of the super-middleweights aims to impress the Quebec audience against the ever-competitive Marcelo Coceres (32-6-1, 18 KOs) in the ring at the Cabaret ...
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will provide the boxing world with a long-awaited update regarding his next move. The sport’s undisputed super middleweight king is due to hold court with TV Azteca in his native Mexico on Tuesday. The context of his scheduled appearance only came with a vague preview of what to expect during the exclusive televised interview. “The undisputed super ...
Jaime Munguia was right on time with one of the most dominant wins of his career. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the team for the unbeaten former WBO junior middleweight contender has entered significant talks with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez regarding a future all-Mexico showdown. The development—which was first reported by ESPN Deportes' Salvador 'Chava' Rodriguez—emerged shortly after Munguia’s one-sided, ninth-round knockout ...
Sandor Martin was outraged—to say the least—by the latest win from Teofimo Lopez. The skilled southpaw from Spain had a case of deja vu after Lopez won a somewhat narrow decision over Jamaine Ortiz in their 12-round 140-pound fight for Lopez’s WBO title Thursday night at Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas, in the lead-up to Super Bowl weekend. Neither ...
Ryan Garcia offered a note of concern for his upcoming adversary. Late Thursday night, the boxing world was greeted to reports that Garcia and Devin Haney, the WBC 140-pound titlist, agreed to a showdown to take place April 20th on DAZN Pay-Per-View at a venue to be determined. The rivalry between Victorville, California’s Garcia, 25, and Henderson, Nevada’s Haney, 25, ...
Teofimo Lopez Sr. believes some of you need to get your eyes checked. He simply can’t understand why his son, Teofimo Lopez, is the center of controversy at the moment. This past Thursday, many were under the impression that his son was thoroughly outboxed at the hands of Jamaine Ortiz. Two of the three judges sitting ringside were in agreement ...
Egis Klimas tried to attenuate the harsh words he flung at Tyson Fury in the wake of yet another postponement to the undisputed heavyweight championship. Klimas, the longtime manager of unified WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion Oleksandr Usyk, castigated Fury a few days ago after it was clear that the highly anticipated bout would not be happening on Feb. 17 ...
Jamaine Ortiz obviously would have even more trouble getting Bob Arum’s Top Rank Inc. and ESPN to pay for a rematch with Teofimo Lopez than the 140-pound contender had convincing the judges he beat Lopez in their 12-round title fight Thursday night. Ortiz nonetheless wants a second shot at winning the WBO junior welterweight championship from Lopez. A disappointed Ortiz ...
At this point, fans have every right to believe that Keith Thurman is a retired fighter. His name may permeate throughout the boxing world but in terms of actually jumping into the ring, Thurman rarely does that anymore. Let’s be more specific, Thurman, now 35, has fought just three times in six years. But when he was a bit more ...