WBO bantamweight world champion Jason Moloney will make the next defense of his title in Tokyo, Japan. Moloney (27-2, 19 KOs) will take on undefeated Yoshiki Takei on the undercard for the May 6 Naoya Inoue-Luis Nery fight. The news came as something of a surprise after it was largely reported that Australia’s Moloney would be joining the supporting cast ...
IBF light flyweight champion Sivenathi Nontshinga has welcomed a fight with former flyweight belt holder Sunny Edwards. Edwards was quick to praise Nontshinga following a world title victory over Adrian Curiel last month, offering a polite call-out with a view to moving down a weight class. Both men’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, added that Edwards Vs “Nontshinga is a big fight ...
Anthony Joshua steamrolled Francis Ngannou in two rounds, annihilating the Cameroonian hero with a booming right hand that left the MMA icon flat on his back. Ngannou was down three times in all, each time from right hands, before he was ultimately blasted out by that shot and separated from his senses. It was all over after 2:38 of the ...
By the end of the first round, the writing was on the wall for Welshman Gavin Gwynne. A huge, lumpy swelling had formed around his right eye, his vision was limited, and the clock was ticking. Worse than that, Portsmouth southpaw Mark Chamberlain started relentlessly pummelling him, ultimately forcing a corner intervention at 2:46 of the fourth round. “I wanted ...
Rey Vargas (36-1, 22 KOs) fights Nick Ball (19-0, 11 KOs) tonight (Friday, March 8) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They fight for Vargas’s WBC featherweight title on the undercard of Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou. Vargas’s career has been filled with inactivity, despite a long championship run. He won the vacant WBC super bantamweight title in 2017 against Gavin McDonnell, made five defenses of ...
In April 1971, James Taylor released the album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon — as far as we can tell, not a reference to the famed Philly fight club — featuring his No. 1 hit cover of Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend.” Ahead of the album’s release, the then-22-year-old singer-songwriter was scheduled to headline at Madison Square ...
Robert Garcia has “no doubt” Anthony Joshua will again reign as world heavyweight champion – and he has also predicted Joshua will stop Francis Ngannou in three rounds. Joshua and Ngannou fight on Friday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aware that victory can secure a future date with the winner of the two fights between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for ...
The world was left shell-shocked in October when MMA star Francis Ngannou dropped heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and danced above his dazed body. Fury had his hand raised at the end of the contest, but the world only saw one winner after Ngannou had done the unthinkable to the WBC champion. The excuses brigade began to point out Fury’s fleshy ...
Tyson Fury expects former WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to return to the ring following his one-sided December defeat to Joseph Parker. Anthony Joshua (27-3, 24 KOs) faces Francis Ngannou (0-1) this Friday (March 8) in the Saudi capital. However, the original script had Wilder pencilled-in to finally face Joshua. Wilder then lost to a revitalised Parker (34-3, 23 ...
Serhii Bohachuk has had quite the journey to make it to his title fight. Bohachuk faces Sebastian Fundora for the vacant WBC middleweight title on the Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu pay-per-view undercard on March 30. Bohachuk, 28, almost didn’t get this shot. Not because of politics in the ring, but because of those outside of it. Bohachuk was in his home ...