It was left to Tom Brown from TGB Promotions, in association with PBC, to open up the official press conference to announce the May 4 Las Vegas bout between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Jaime Munguia at the T-Mobile Arena He did so by thanking those involved with making the all-Mexican clash happen, including Fernando Beltran at Zanfer, who co-promote Munguia ...
South African star and two-weight world champion Hekkie Budler is closing the door on his decorated professional career. The 35-year-old, who boasts a 35-5 (11 KOs) record, was taken to one side by trainer and friend Colin Nathan today and Nathan told him he thought the journey they had been on together since 2007 was over, and Budler understood. Budler ...
Japanese prospect Kanamu Sakama passed away at just 20 years of age after being forced to withdraw from his scheduled March 18 contest at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall against Hiroki Oki. On March 16, Sakama pulled out of the competition due to ill health, according to World Sports Gym Chairman Tatsuya Saita. Neither the Japanese Boxing Commission nor local health authorities ...
Timothy Bradley is one of many who feels like the new March 30 main event in Las Vegas is a short-notice upgrade. This week, Keith Thurman withdrew from his scheduled headliner against Tim Tszyu and Sebastian Fundora stepped up from his slot on the undercard to deputise. While Fundora said strategically not much changes in his final stages of preparations, ...
We see a car roll to a stop in the desert. Rolly Romero pops the trunk — in a camera shot presumably intended to call to mind any number of Quentin Tarantino films populated with bad guys, or perhaps the final season of Breaking Bad — and pulls out a pinata with a picture of Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz attached to ...
Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe have agreed terms for their rematch and are likely to fight in June. They will contest Billam-Smith’s WBO cruiserweight title five years after, via split decision, Riakporhe inflicted the champion’s only defeat, and await only a date in June and venue before their preparations can be intensified. “Everything has been agreed upon between the fighters ...
Sebastian Fundora took a call on Sunday to see if he would be open to replacing Keith Thurman in the main event in Las Vegas against Tim Tszyu on march 30. The rangy super welterweight contender had little hesitation in upgrading his slot on the bill from facing Serhii Bohachuk on the card to headlining in a fight for Tszyu’s ...
Regional promoters are the lifeblood of boxing. The likes of Top Rank, Golden Boy, PBC, Matchroom and Queensberry, among others, will continue to bring big-time boxing shows to bright-light stages, but before the stars that those organizations showcase arrive there, they first must climb through the ranks on smaller shows. Los Angeles-based Toro Promotions is boxing’s latest upstart company aiming ...
Rolando Romero is one of boxing’s most divisive figures, but he thinks people might have got it wrong about him. The WBA super lightweight champion, 15-1 (13 KOs), defends his title against Isaac Cruz at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30, on the first boxing pay-per-view carried by Amazon Prime. “I’m kicking off Amazon Prime, people don’t ...
Brad Pauls (18-0-1, 10 KOs) produced a career-best showing against Nathan Heaney (18-0-1, 6 KOs) last weekend in Birmingham, challenging for the British middleweight title. However, his best efforts were not enough to return to his native Cornwall as a holder of the Lonsdale Belt. The duo fought to a split draw with one scorecard of 114-114 alongside totals of ...