CES Boxing returns to Rhode Island on Saturday, March 23, with a huge doubleheader at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino. The popular Jimmy Burchfield Classic Invitational amateur showcase kicks off the day's festivities at 2pm, followed by a stacked professional boxing card beginning at 7pm EST. Dominican sensation Alejandro "El Abusador" Paulino (16-0, 13 KOs) gets his first main event assignment on the pro card, battling Estivan ...
Eddie Hearn has spoken about boxing’s lawlessness and the lack of “barriers to entry”. Hearn was discussing problems in the sport alongside his rival promoter Oscar De La Hoya on DAZN, and said that peripheral figures can get in the way of the biggest deals being struck. “Boxing is a unique sport where there’s no barriers to entry,” said Hearn. ...
Nina Meinke challenges the iconic Amanda Serrano for the IBF, WBA and WBO featherweight world titles tomorrow night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, the bout signifies a change in women’s boxing. The contest, live on DAZN, sees the two women collide over 12-three minute rounds instead of the traditional 10-two minute rounds. Serrano is in a scheduled 12-round bout ...
Dmitriy Salita wants to use Salita Promotions’ Big Time Boxing USA series to revive boxing in Detroit and to stage regular fights in New York. Ardreal Holmes Jr’s victory over Marlon Harrington at Detroit’s Wayne State Fieldhouse on February 20 represented the start of their broadcast agreement with DAZN, and Salita, who once fought out of the city’s revered Kronk ...
Amanda Serrano is poised to take the next step in her quest toward the equitable treatment of women in boxing, this time on the island where she was born. On Saturday at Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Serrano will defend her three world titles against Nina Meinke. The catch: The bout will be fought in three-minute ...
Caleb Plant officially fought once in 2023 and suffered a unanimous decision defeat to David Benavidez Jr. The former super middleweight titleholder also had an unsanctioned fight against Jermall Charlo in September during the fight week of the Canelo Alvarez-Jermell Charlo fight in Las Vegas. Footage showed Plant slapping Jermall with a leaping left hand. The scuffle left the boxing ...
TELFORD – Super bantamweight Tom Welland (3-0, 2 KO) scored a second-round stoppage against Esteban Troestch (1-3-1, 1KO) in Telford, opening the televised broadcast of the Wasserman Boxing promotion headlined by the vacant European super welterweight title fight between Abass Baraou and Sam Eggington. Welland, who turned professional in November 2023, kicked off his 2024 with a knockdown in the ...
When pro boxer Kali Reis was announced as the co-lead in the fourth instalment of HBO’s anthology series True Detective, the news was, to put it mildly, met with some raised eyebrows. Reis had previously acted in just two projects, only one of which – the independent movie Catch the Fair One, which she had co-written – had to that ...
From the peaks of standing as the Boxing Writers Assn. of America trainer of the year in 2022, Derrick James has traveled a turbulent path since. Following the losses of his top fighters, Errol Spence Jr., and Jermell Charlo, within a three-month period last year, James is poised to return to elite events with his fighters Ryan Garcia and unbeaten ...
Abass Baraou finally has the chance to fight for the EBU super welterweight title that he has long been mandatory for. The German fights Birmingham’s Sam Eggington live on Channel 5 and DAZN. Baraou’s challenge for European honours has been a long time coming – a fight for the vacant title was originally scheduled to take place in France against ...