Keyshawn Davis is bothered by the lone blemish on his professional boxing record. The result of his last fight – a 10-round, majority-decision victory over Nahir Albright – was changed to a no-contest by the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation because Davis tested positive for marijuana. That controversy caused Davis to stop smoking pot, which the talented lightweight feels ...
Teofimo Lopez won’t make the mistake of underestimating Jamaine Ortiz. Lopez believes, though, that Ortiz’s strong start versus Vasiliy Lomachenko was somewhat circumstantial. Lomachenko came off of a 10½-month layoff when he opposed Ortiz in October 2022 and spent much of that year in war-torn Ukraine, the three-division champion’s home country, after it was invaded by Russia. Lopez acknowledged that ...
Tommy Fletcher’s reputation is beginning to proceed him. Fletcher (6-0, 5 KO’s) has scored some truly frightening knockouts during his short but explosive career and fans have already learned not to take their eyes away from the ring for a second when the 6ft 7in tall cruiserweight walks to the ring. The hope is that the 22-year-old will encounter some ...
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is not holding any animosity towards WBC king Tyson Fury. The two were scheduled to collide on February 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Last week, the fight was postponed after Fury suffered a severe cut during a sparring session in training camp. The contest was quickly pushed back to a new date ...
Thammanoon Niyomtrong is once again locked into a mandatory title defense. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the sport’s longest reigning current titlist was ordered to next face Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmatov. The WBA strawweight title fight was mandated on Wednesday evening, the timing which could allow Dusmatov to fight for his first major pro belt ahead of his second Olympic bid. “The ...
Almost eight months removed from the “retirement” no one took seriously, Teofimo Lopez will be showcased on a huge stage Thursday night in the shadows of the biggest annual sporting spectacle in the United States. Lopez’s 12-round, 140-pound title fight against Jamaine Ortiz will take place amid the hustle and bustle of Super Bowl week in Las Vegas, where the ...
Few fighters are as familiar as Abraham Nova with both Teofimo Lopez and Jamaine Ortiz. Nova was Lopez’s primary sparring partner prior to the former unified lightweight champion’s victories over Richard Commey and Masayoshi Nakatani. The junior lightweight contender has also sparred numerous times with Ortiz, including 36 rounds recently as Ortiz prepared to challenge Lopez on Thursday night in ...
Enough with the Jaron Ennis talk. Brian “Bomac” McIntyre has grown both tired of hearing his name and vexed when prognosticators spew that he’s done enough to earn a fight with Terence Crawford. From a skill standpoint, maybe he has. But in terms of his accomplishments and name value, fighting Ennis simply isn’t worth it. “He don’t bring nothing to ...
Turki Alalshikh won’t entertain any notion that casts doubt on the legitimacy of Tyson Fury’s latest gash. The Saudi power broker was quick to dispel such theories after it was announced that the undisputed heavyweight championship between Fury, the WBC titlist, and Oleksandr Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion, will not be happening on Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi, ...
The 2024 Ring Masters Championships: Road to the Garden, New York’s premier amateur boxing tournament, kicked off on Saturday February 2, at Hempstead Boxing in Hempstead, NY. 450 amateur boxers, aged 8 to 68, will compete in 17 sanctioned events, from February to April. 2024 marks the largest event since the Ring Masters Championships debuted in 2018. The last elimination ...