Former world cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has warned Anthony Joshua that his inside fighting game will need to be on point ahead of his fight with Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Saudi Arabia. Joshua has won three on the bounce since back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, against Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin. Former UFC champion Ngannou has ...
Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Frank Martin have reportedly agreed terms to fight for the WBA lightweight title. The rivals, according to ESPN, are on course to fight either late in the spring or early in the summer, on a Premier Boxing Champions on Amazon Prime Video pay-per-view. Davis, 29 and the defending champion, last fought in April 2023, when at ...
Australian super flyweight Andrew Moloney is positioned at number three in the rankings for the vacant WBO super flyweight title that Kosei Tanaka and Christian Bacasegua Rangel fight for on Saturday in Tokyo. Moloney will be following closely, aware that he is in line to fight the winner on the undercard of the fight between Vasyl Lomachenko and George Kambosos ...
Boxing returns to the Sony Hall in Times Square on March 7 after Larry Goldberg committed himself to providing a launching pad for the next generation of local fighters in a city that is famous for its boxing. He is keeping boxing alive in Manhattan. The bouts included are Gleason’s Gym standout, featherweight Ariel Lopez (20-1-1) fights Gregorio Lebron (24-6) in an eight-round main event. ...
Daniel Dubois is out as co-challenger for the vacant EBU heavyweight title and Joe “Juggernaut” Joyce (15-2) is in. In the other corner is still German Granit Shala (15-0). The EBU has set February 29 as the deadline for purse bids. Joyce is still lined up to fight Kash Ali (21-2) March 16 in Birmingham. ................................. Icelandic heavyweight Gunnar Kolbeinn ...
Antonio Vargas is hoping to reclaim the glory that was once promised to him. The 2016 U.S. Olympian will fight Jonathan Rodriguez in a WBA bantamweight world title eliminator on Saturday (February 24) at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. The bout will be on the Edgar Berlanga versus Padraig McCrory undercard, broadcast on DAZN. The winner is the mandatory ...
Ricards Bolotniks wants to bring competitive fights back to his native Riga, Latvia. The Latvian light heavyweight, 20-7-1 (8 KOs), appeared from relative obscurity with wins over the UK’s Steven Ward and Hosea Burton in 2019 and 2020, following up with a knockout victory over the undefeated Serge Michel. Bolotniks was the underdog every time. He eventually lost to Joshua ...
At the press conference to announce their April 27 rematch, Josh Taylor and Jack Catterall seemed ready to throw down then and there. As they faced off on the stage, Taylor jabbed Catterall in the chest, Catterall grabbed Taylor by the throat, security pulled them apart, and Catterall tried to take one more pop at his rival before the two ...
Junto Nakatani will “walk out” with Alexandro Santiago’s WBC bantamweight title on Saturday in the Japanese capital of Tokyo, believes his former opponent Andrew Moloney. The 26-year-old Nakatani secured a title at super flyweight, and therefore a second weight, when defeating Moloney for the vacant WBO title last May via a highlight-reel 12th-round knockout. “I’m very interested to see how ...
Edgar Berlanga meets the undefeated Irishman Padraig McCrory in Orlando, Florida this Saturday, when the moving parts in one of boxing’s brightest weight classes will again shuffle. The super middleweight division has got the sport talking – several top contenders are in pursuit of boxing’s top draw, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. There are, among others, David Benavidez, Jaime Munguia, David Morrell, ...