Germany’s Abass Baraou fights England’s Sam Eggington for the vacant EBU super welterweight title on Friday night in Telford. The Shropshire town is far from synonymous with boxing, but, shortly from Friday's venue, the Telford International Center, sits the Telford Ice Rink, where the WBC super middleweight champion and local resident Richie Woodhall welcomed Germany’s Markus Beyer to the home ...
Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov (12-0, 11 KOs) will lock horns against American standout Raymond Ford (14-0-1, 7 KOs) for the vacant WBA featherweight world title this Saturday, March 2 at Turning Stone Resort Casino. This battle of unbeaten southpaws will see the WBA’s No.1 and No. 2 contenders compete in their first world title bouts. In the co-feature, Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez (29-2, 16 KOs) ...
It shouldn’t be too much longer before it is revealed when Conor Benn will return to the ring, who he will fight, and – maybe most intriguingly – where that fight will take place. In the summer of 2023 the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) and UK Anti-Doping launched an appeal against the National Anti-Doping Panel ruling that lifted ...
LOS ANGELES – Can a fight be lost at a news conference, more than one month before the first bell? The fact that’s now a discussion point tells you all you need to know about the mental undressing that Devin Haney delivered to a wobbled Ryan Garcia late Thursday afternoon at Hollywood’s Avalon Theater. The 25-year-old must have at least ...
Heavyweight Matty Harris returns on March 1 in Telford and begins rebuilding his career following his first defeat last July in Edinburgh. Harris (5-1, 4KOs) suffered a surprise upset against Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko, losing via a fifth-round loss despite dropping his Ukrainian opponent in the second round. Harris has made changes to his set-up, hiring Peter Fury to lead his return ...
Devin Haney angrily accused Ryan Garcia’s father of racism when the fighters again came face to face Thursday in Los Angeles to promote their April 20 fight date. Haney, the WBC super lightweight champion, is on course to make the first defense of his title against Garcia, his longtime amateur rival, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The ...
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN presented by AutoZone: Kholmatov vs. Ford will be presented live this Saturday, March 2, at approximately 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT, exclusively on ESPN+. The event takes place at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. In the main event, Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov will fight Raymond Ford for the vacant WBA ...
Ryan Garcia feels that his former training partner Canelo Alvarez would and should fight David Benavidez. Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) is in the midst of promoting his April 20 fight against Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in New York, and Garcia stopped by the popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 FM, where he discussed Canelo. “He ...
Abass Baraou and Sam Eggington are weighed in and ready to go to battle in Telford tomorrow night. Baraou (14-1, 9 KOs) weighed in at 153lb 8oz for the vacant European super welterweight title fight while Eggington (34-8, 20 KOs) tipped the scales at 153lbs 11oz. The fighters have been given an added incentive over the past 24 hours. The ...
There is a featherweight title fight you better not sleep on this Saturday night. Camden’s Raymond Ford has his first shot at a world title against Ukrainian Otabek Kholmatov at the Turning Stone in Oneida in upstate New York. Ford is a gifted southpaw – poised and cultured, slick, quick, and gifted. He’s also only 24 and a former Golden ...