Trainer and former world middleweight champion Andy Lee knows a good heavyweight when he sees one. The Irish star has been an invaluable member of Tyson Fury’s camp, and he has reinvented New Zealander Joseph Parker for the second act of Parker’s pro career, culminating in the shock win over Deontay Wilder in December. Lee has spent the last several ...
Bruce Carrington is no longer a prospect, but a contender. Carrington had a spectacular knockout win over Bernard Torres in February in New York, and is looking to be a future star on ESPN and for his promoters Top Rank. “It is more ring experience and it is just going to come with time,” the featherweight told ESPN. Carrington, 26, ...
Michel Rivera (25-1) is still shaking his head at the upcoming fight between Rolando “Rolly” Romero (15-1) and Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1). Their fight serves as the chief support to Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30. The pay-per-view fight card will also be Premier Boxing Champions’ first under their new agreement with streaming ...
On March 30, CBN Promotions will present its second show of 2024, set to take place at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. In the eight-round super welterweight main event, local favorite Louis Lopez (14-2-2, 5 KOs), hailing from Corona, California, will face off against Jesus Resendiz (8-0-1, 6 KOs), from San Diego. The co-main event features a six-round super ...
Five months after Francis Ngannou performed heroics and pushed the lacklustre Tyson Fury to the brink before losing a split decision, the Cameroonian is back in Saudi Arabia and ready for an explosive showdown with Anthony Joshua. For all of Ngannou’s incredible physical attributes, he may have lost the one component that made him so dangerous last October – the ...
The respected Alan Smith is preparing Moses Itauma for his fight at York Hall on March 22. Itauma fights for the eighth time as a professional against an opponent who is still to be confirmed, but he is increasingly being recognised as one of the world’s most exciting young heavyweights and is working with Smith in an attempt to accelerate ...
Wasserman Boxing hosted an EBU super welterweight title fight between Germany’s Abass Baraou and England’s Sam Eggington on Friday night in Telford. The Wasserman-promoted Baraou scored a majority-decision win over the 42-fight veteran 30 miles from his opponent’s hometown of Birmingham. The 29-year-old Berliner produced a dominant display over 12 rounds to secure the European title despite one judge scoring ...
Former heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki lost for the fifth consecutive time after being stopped by 12-1 (8 KOs) prospect Kacper Mayna. They boxed in Koszalin in Poland and Mayna took just 45 seconds to get the job done, trapping Kownacki in the corner and firing off relentlessly with both hands, causing referee Leszek Jankowiak to intervene. Thirty-four-year-old Kownacki is now ...
Edgar Berlanga is on a leisurely trip in Puerto Rico this weekend to support Amanda Serrano in her fight, but he’s making sure to keep his phone close by because Canelo Alvarez could come calling at any minute. As negotiations intensify for a potential fight between Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) insists that he’s very much still ...
A Hollywood actor and a professional boxer, Javon “Wanna” Walton (1-0, 1 KO) is Jake Paul’s latest prodigy, and he fights Saturday, March 2, against Joshua Torres (0-1-1) in a four-round prelim bout. Walton’s second pro outing is billed as his ‘global debut’. While it’s unclear what that entirely means, his first fight saw him in the ring for only ...