Jake Paul continued to call for a fight with undisputed super middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) following his first-round knockout win over Ryan Bourland (17-3, 6 KOs) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Paul (9-1, 6 KOs), a YouTube phenom/professional boxer, dominated proceedings against Bourland in a one-sided affair which saw Bourland withdrawn by referee Luis Pabon after 2:37 ...
Roy Jones Jr. famously moved up from light heavyweight to heavyweight in 2003, conceded 33 pounds to fight John Ruiz, and still scored a unanimous decision victory to become a titleholder in the sport’s glamor division. In the fight for undisputed heavyweight supremacy on May 18 between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, the matchup between titans will feature a serious ...
Mike Tyson has opened a gym in Saudi Arabia. The training grounds, located in Riyadh, have been a hub for many recent training boxing camps, including that of Francis Ngannou for his March 8 bout with Anthony Joshua. Over the past year, world-class heavyweight boxing has essentially moved to Riyadh. And Saudi Arabia, which has delivered big bucks to the ...
Tyson Fury has said Francis Ngannou should be grateful for the opportunity in which he finds himself ahead of Friday’s fight with Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia. MMA fighters and boxers, as a rule, do not historically cross over into one another’s realms with great success. Ngannou broke that generalization with a valiant and impressive performance against Fury in October, ...
UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley will look to avenge the lone loss of his MMA career when he takes on Marlon Vera in a rematch to headline UFC 299. As O'Malley prepares to enter the cage, he’s still entertaining the idea of crossing over into the boxing ring. In recent months the 29-year-old slugger nicknamed “Suga” has traded barbs with ...
Heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou have official 'arrived' in Saudi Arabia ahead of their fight on Friday (March 8). Both sounded confident and talked at length with DAZN at the Grand Arrivals earlier today, and Joshua said he was itching to get into the ring against the Cameroonian wild card on the Knockout Chaos bill. “I’m ready, I’m looking ...
Anthony Joshua has suggested a long-awaited domestic battle with Tyson Fury could be in the pipeline following a recent interview on ITV. The former unified heavyweight world champion faces Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the latest instalment of Turki Alalshikh’s Riyadh Season, launched in October 2023 with Tyson Fury’s heavyweight encounter with Ngannou. Joshua appeared ...
Mike Tyson has accused Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) of disrespecting boxing and Mexico with the undisputed super middleweight champion allegedly walking away from a lucrative proposal to face his mandatory challenger David Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs). A fight between Canelo and Benavidez is one of the most attractive in boxing and has long been discussed, with Benavidez holding the ...
Mike Tyson has not been as involved with Francis Ngannou’s second professional boxing fight. Ngannou faces Anthony Joshua, Friday March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on DAZN pay-per-view. Ngannou, the former MMA champion-turned boxer without a professional victory under his belt, will look to have an encore performance having taken Tyson Fury to the wire last October. “For this one ...
Tyson Fury insists that the cut that caused the postponement of his eagerly awaited fight with Oleksandr Usyk has already healed and that he is ready to stop the Ukrainian when they finally meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 18. Fury and Usyk were scheduled to contest the undisputed heavyweight championship on February 17, but Fury was forced to ...