Leo Santa Cruz spoke with World Boxing Association (WBA) President, Gilberto Jesús Mendoza, on Instagram Live. Mendoza talked to the WBA Featherweight and Super Featherweight Super Champion about many interesting points, including his plan to face Gervonta Davis in his next fight. “We’re focused on the fight against Gervonta Davis. The negotiation was very advanced, but with this situation it ...
By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing Hall of Famer Mike Tyson had to control his fear when he stepped into the ring and still works out each day to stay in shape. “I never thought I could handle being a fighter. It just was. I’ve never been able to handle it. You always get nervous. I’m nervous now. That’s ...
An agreement was recently announced between VADA and BSCG (Banned Substances Control Group), an international leader in supplement testing and certification, team in favor of sport to offer nutritional supplement testing for performance-enhancing substances to all boxers enrolled in VADA. This BSCG “Certificate of Drug-Free Product” is essential for all boxers who want to ensure that the products they consume ...
Panel:Mike Mazzulli, Mohegan Sun CommissionAndy Foster, California State Athletic CommissionGregory Sirb, Pennsylvania State Athletic CommissionMauricio Sulaimán, WBC PresidentVíctor Silva, Moderator – WBC reinstates Haney as lightweight champion PLEASE READWe have a few rules to make our comment section more enjoyable for everyone.1. Keep comments related to boxing.2. Be respectful, polite and keep it clean.3. Personal attacks will not be tolerated.Offending ...
The WBC has reinstated champion in recess Devin Haney as WBC lightweight champion and granted him a voluntary defense. Javier Fortuna and Luke Campbell willmeet for the WBC interim lightweight championship and mandatory challenger. The winner of Haney’s voluntary defense must then fight the winner of Fortuna-Campbell without any intervening bout. At its 57th WBC Annual Convention in Cancún, Mexico, ...
Saturday night was supposed to be make or break for Sullivan Barrera. The former world title challenger was supposed to face Sergey Kovalev on April 25th in a DAZN streamed main event that would have been contested at a catchweight of 180 pounds. Of course the coronavirus halted all professional sports in the United States from the middle of March ...
By Joe Koizumi The hard-working liaison conference of the Japan Boxing Commission (JBC) and the JPBA (Japan Professional Boxing Association, the union of 282 club owners including newly licensed) has decided today (Wednesday) that all shows scheduled through June will be completely canceled due to the still growing coronavirus outbreak here. The conference previously called off all cards through May, ...
By Mauricio SulaimánSon of José Sulaimán / President WBC Last week was great, and I would like to share a summary of the most interesting of our WBC Talks. These video conferences we do every day, in English and Spanish, help to keep the boxing community interacting, engaged, learning and having fun, with the many anecdotes, laughter and wonderful stories. ...
Finally! Bufalo Boxing Promotions, headed by former two-division world champion Rosendo “Bufalo” Alvarez, has announced a live boxing card scheduled for Saturday at the Alexis Arguello Sports Center in Managua, Nicaragua. The main event will feature super featherweight Robin Zamora (15-7, 8 KOs) against Ramiro Blanco (18-7-3, 10 KOs). They previously fought last October with Zamora winning by TKO2. ESPN ...
Marcos René Maidana had an excellent chat with the president of the World Boxing Association (WBA), Gilberto Jesús Mendoza, through Instagram Live, in which he spoke about his career, different anecdotes and his still keen intention to return to boxing and retire as a champion. “Chino” talked about his fight against the kickboxer Acero Cali, that he will take as ...