The retired Carl Froch, who in 2023 was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, was on Monday the guest of honour at a lunch hosted in London by the Boxing Writers’ Club. His final 12 fights, starting with his victory over Jean Pascal in 2008 for the vacant WBC super middleweight title and ending with his stoppage of ...
Ray Moylette will aim to give his career a storybook ending when he appears for the final time on Sunday’s “Once Upon a Time in The West” show in Castlebar. In 2008 Moylette took a bronze medal at the Youth World Championships and then claimed gold at the European Championships in 2011. In 2017 he turned professional with hopes of ...
Victory with a lesson to learn is like gold to a trainer. So even though Ireland’s Callum Walsh had the Madison Square Garden Theater crowd on its feet following his ninth-round stoppage Friday night, Freddie Roach savored the thought that he can keep pressing his promising junior-middleweight to improve. “He didn’t fight his best fight. We need to be a ...
Callum Walsh (10-0, 8 KOs) stopped Dauren Yeleussinov (11-4-1, 10 KOs) in the ninth round to win the WBC Continental Americas super welterweight title in Friday’s headline fight at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. After the bout, Walsh, 23, was told he is now ranked 14th in the 154-pound division and was asked how it would feel ...
Feargal McCrory (16-0, 8 KOs) defeated Carlos Carlson (25-8, 16 KOs) by third-round technical knockout in the co-main event of Friday's Callum Walsh-Dauren Yeleussinov card at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. Ireland's McCrory earned the WBA Continental Americas super featherweight title with the win. McCrory dropped Carlson in the third with a vicious left to the ...
Cletus Seldin (28-1, 23 KOs) beat Jose Angulo (16-8, 9 KOs) by majority decision in an eight-round super lightweight clash Friday at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. But that will likely be his second-best memory of the night. After the fight, Seldin, 37, thanked his partner, Jessica Ostrowski, for her support and proposed to her into ...
Subriel Matias will face Liam Paro in June in Puerto Rico. IBF super lightweight champion Matias recently made the switch from PBC to Matchroom, and he will make his Matchroom debut against Paro, who is coming off a destructive knockout of countryman Brock Jarvis in 2022 and a six-round stoppage of Montana Love in December. Paro (24-0, 15 KOs), of ...
DAZN and its North America chief executive Joseph Markowski have mutually agreed to part ways, sources connected to the decision confirmed to BoxingScene on Friday following an initial report on the split from Sports Business Journal. An official statement is being prepared for Monday, a DAZN spokesman said. Markowski presided over DAZN’s bold entry into boxing, originally separating itself from ...
The weights are in for the Queensberry Promotions Magnificent 7 show, and heavyweight Joe Joyce has hit a career-high of 286.8lbs. The heavyweight contender returns against Kash Ali after back-to-back losses to Zhilei Zhang last year, as he hopes to get back in to the mix of big heavyweight fights taking place in the USA. Super-middleweight Zach Parker (169.3lbs) was ...
Salita Promotions has signed top super lightweight contender Michel “La Zarza Ali” Rivera to a long-term deal, adding a crown jewel to one of boxing’s most talented stables of up-and-coming fighters. “I am excited about reaching my goal of being a world champion,” said Rivera, who’s targeting a spring return. “This is going to be a great year for me, ...