Ivan Golub comes from a school of boxing unlike many can imagine. The now Brooklyn based welterweight, who's career is guided by managerial company Split-T management and promoter Lou DiBella, is a product of the famed Ukrainian amateur setup that includes world champions Vasyl Lomachenko, Oleksandr Usyk, Oleksander Gvozdyk, and stablemate Sergiy Dereyvanchenko. Golub opened up about training with Lomachenko prior ...
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Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum indicates that it's a very realistic possibility to see the Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder trilogy end up in an overseas location. Back in February, Fury dropped and stopped Wilder in seven rounds to capture the WBC's heavyweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The first bout, which took place at Staples Center in Los Angeles, ...
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Erickson "The Hammer" Lubin (22-1) and Terrell Gausha (21-1-1) were supposed to face each other on October 26th in a Showtime televised main event. However, the two super welterweight title contenders didn't square off because Gausha suffered a hand injury in his training camp which caused him to pull out of the bout. Lubin ended up defeating late replacement Nathaniel ...
Ricky Hatton is convinced no one would’ve beaten him on the night he upset Kostya Tszyu. Not even Floyd Mayweather. One of England’s most beloved boxers explained during the newest episode of Sky Sports’ “The Boxing Show” that the way referee Dave Parris permitted him to work versus Tszyu in June 2005 would’ve enabled him to defeat even the best ...
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Justice wasn’t exactly swift, but in the end it was ultimately served. Franchon Crews-Dezurn was forced to wait more than four months before seeing her unified super middleweight title reign fully restored. The Baltimore-based boxer was initially on the wrong side of a split decision which landed in favor of Mexico’s Alejandra Jimenez (12-0-1, 9KOs; 1ND) to win the belts ...
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum is confident that his staff and the Nevada State Athletic Commission have prepared properly for the return of major boxing to the United States for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic shut down the sports world in mid-March. It happened just a few days before Top Rank was due to put on featherweight world ...
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If everything goes as expected, Golden Boy Promotions will relaunch their company events on July 4 with Ryan García, either at the Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California, or at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - according to company president Eric Gomez. Gómez said that for now the opponent will neither be Jorge Linares nor Abner Mares, but he will be ...
The staff at Top Rank Inc. takes tremendous pride in being the first promotional company to present a boxing event in the United States amidst the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. One thing that was never going to happen, however, was rushing to the front of the line just for the sake of being first. That part was saved for ...
4th June, 2016. Four years ago today, Michael Bisping became the first Briton to ever lift UFC gold. It was the night the Lancashire lad, who was then equally revered and reviled by different sets of MMA fans, came good against all odds. UFC 199 was all set for a headline act pitting middleweight champion Luke Rockhold against Chris Weidman, ...
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Heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte lashed out after reading statements from Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum. Whyte is the World Boxing Council's mandatory challenger, in position for a direct title shot at WBC world champion Tyson Fury. Arum, who promotes Fury, would like to speak with the WBC to discuss the topic of delaying Whyte's mandatory shot - in order eliminate any obstacles from a potential ...