WBC/WBA/Ring Magazine minimumweight world champion Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada (25-0, 9 KOs) and WBO/IBF ruler Yokasta Valle (30-2, 9 KOs) went face to face for the first time Wednesday in Las Vegas. (photos by Mikey Williams) Their long-simmering feud will be settled Friday, March 29 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, as the division's first-ever undisputed champion will be ...
Teofimo Lopez (19-1, 13 KOs) will defend his WBO and Ring Magazine junior welterweight titles against Jamaine Ortiz (17-1-1, 8 KOs) on Thursday, Feb. 8, at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. (photos by Mikey Williams) In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis (9-0, 6 KOs) faces Puerto Rican former ...
Few fighters are as familiar as Abraham Nova with both Teofimo Lopez and Jamaine Ortiz. Nova was Lopez’s primary sparring partner prior to the former unified lightweight champion’s victories over Richard Commey and Masayoshi Nakatani. The junior lightweight contender has also sparred numerous times with Ortiz, including 36 rounds recently as Ortiz prepared to challenge Lopez on Thursday night in ...
Jamaine Ortiz flexed his muscles, smiled and beat his chest Wednesday afternoon after he made weight in Las Vegas. Teofimo Lopez mostly smiled as they faced off for the final time before their 140-pound title fight Thursday night. Minutes earlier, Lopez and Ortiz weighed exactly the same amount, 139.6 pounds, when they stepped on the Nevada State Athletic Commission’s scale. ...
This Saturday, Feb. 10, unbeaten standout Hamzah Sheeraz defends his Commonwealth title in the 12-round main event against former British champion Liam Williams at London’s Copper Box Arena. In the 12-round co-feature, lightweight knockout artist Sam Noakes and fellow unbeaten Lewis Sylvester will battle for the Commonwealth, British, and WBC International Silver titles. Sheeraz-Williams, Noakes-Sylvester, and additional undercard bouts will ...
Ryan Garcia can be described by using a ton of words. Flamboyant? Sure. Loquacious? Absolutely. A bit big-headed? At times. A lady's man? Without question. A terrific fighter? In the eyes of most, yes. Entirely too cocky and full of himself? From Floyd Schofield Jr.’s point of view, he certainly is. Garcia can be a bit all over the place ...
Enough with the Jaron Ennis talk. Brian “Bomac” McIntyre has grown both tired of hearing his name and vexed when prognosticators spew that he’s done enough to earn a fight with Terence Crawford. From a skill standpoint, maybe he has. But in terms of his accomplishments and name value, fighting Ennis simply isn’t worth it. “He don’t bring nothing to ...
Turki Alalshikh won’t entertain any notion that casts doubt on the legitimacy of Tyson Fury’s latest gash. The Saudi power broker was quick to dispel such theories after it was announced that the undisputed heavyweight championship between Fury, the WBC titlist, and Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion, will not be happening on Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi, ...
The 2024 Ring Masters Championships: Road to the Garden, New York’s premier amateur boxing tournament, kicked off on Saturday February 2, at Hempstead Boxing in Hempstead, NY. 450 amateur boxers, aged 8 to 68, will compete in 17 sanctioned events, from February to April. 2024 marks the largest event since the Ring Masters Championships debuted in 2018. The last elimination ...
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down the conspiracy theories surrounding the postponement of the undisputed fight with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world champion Oleksandr Usyk. The fight was scheduled for February 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, the contest was recently pushed back to May 18 after Fury withdrew with a training camp injury. ...