Juan Francisco Estrada and Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez are hunting a blockbuster unification rematch – and Estrada told Gonzalez in the first ever episode of ‘Peleamundo’, premiering this Sunday on Matchroom Boxing’s YouTube channel, that he is confident of settling the score if the pair can meet again. Estrada (40-3 27 KOs) and Gonzalez (49-2 41 KOs) both regained their World ...
Update: “I just had a very positive conversation with Mauricio Sulaiman, President of the WBC and confirmed to him directly my commitment to be a role model and my absolute rejection of discrimination of any kind!” –Devin Haney No apology, but WBC lightweight champion Devin Haney has issued a brief statement on social media. “I’m not racist and I never ...
The World Boxing Council (Mauricio Sulaiman, Victor Silva, Xochitl Lagarda and Jill Diamond) closed the week by having an epic conversation with Mike Tyson. It was a fascinating, wide-ranging chat, full of anecdotes, humor and wisdom, discussing Cus D Amato, Muhammad Ali, pigeons, tattoos, hope, dreams, family and a treasure trove wealth of knowledge straight from the heart from one ...
WBC lightweight champion in recess Devin Haney commented on a possible fight with WBA, WBO and WBC franchise lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko during an interview with 78SPORTSTV. “I will never lose to a white boy in my life,” proclaimed Haney. “I don’t care what nobody else says. Can’t no white boy beat me any day of the week. Fight a ...
Showtime Sports will continue to serve boxing fans during the current hiatus from live sports with replays of both Johnny Tapia vs. Paulie Ayala fights at 10PM ET/PT.—–Next week on Showtime: Lucas Matthysse vs. John Molina Jr. and Mickey Bey vs. John Molina Jr.—–ESPN has an eleven-hour boxing marathon on Saturday.12PM Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman1PM Evander Holyfield vs. George ...
By David Finger Fightnews.com® is sad to report the passing of one of boxing’s most esteemed referees: Eddie Cotton of New Jersey. Cotton died on the morning of April 17th of COVID-19 after having been hospitalized for over a week. Cotton was highly regarded in the boxing community having refereed hundreds of high profile fights since the early 1990s. He ...
Dana White’s battle in getting UFC 249 over the line for 18 April has been lost. The UFC President told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto that UFC 249 will no longer take place on 18 April after intervention from partners ESPN and Disney. Additionally, all future scheduled UFC events have been postponed indefinitely. “Today, we got a call from the highest level ...
This article was originally featured in Fighters Only issue 142. You can get a free subscription by clicking here. Worrds: Gareth A. Davies Floyd Mayweather Jr’s latest potential venture involving UFC president Dana White, and two of the fight organization’s biggest stars curled the lips of a few folk in mixed martial arts recently. This is the notion that Floyd ...
That’s despite the promotion announcing a full fight card for UFC 249, which is set to be headlined by an interim UFC lightweight championship fight between Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje on 18 April. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto spoke with White after the UFC 249 fight card was announced and White didn’t reveal the location of the event and those that ...
We now have clarity. UFC 249 is a go and its full fight card was announced by the UFC late on Monday night. Khabib Nurmagomedov will not be competing on the card as expected. Headlining a stacked card given the circumstances, Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje will compete for the interim UFC lightweight championship. A monstrous heavyweight bout between Francis Ngannou ...