John Ryder wants to make sure he’s not fighting Jaime Munguia and the three judges come Jan. 27. The British boxer Ryder (32-6, 18 KOs) and the Mexican fighter Munguia (42-0, 33 KOs) will square off for a scrap at the Footprint Center in Phoenix on DAZN. Should the super middleweight match go the 12-round distance, Ryder wants to make ...
It’s good to be a light heavyweight champion these days. OK, let’s face it. It’s probably never a bad time to rule the 175-pound weight class. But it seems to mean a little more here in the first month of 2024, where the two lead dogs in the division share simultaneous billing as two of the world’s best pound-for-pound operators, ...
Eddie Hearn has spent weeks talking about the vivid visions which visited him whenever he closed his eyes. Visions of Callum Smith knocking out Artur Beterbiev with a left hook and returning to England as the new unified light heavyweight champion. Reality set in quickly last Saturday night. Beterbiev put in an almost flawless display and dominated the talented former ...
Two members of the growing Quincy, MA.-Granite Chin Promotions (GCP) stable of boxers, middleweights Antonio Todd (16-9, 9 KOs) and Julien “Black Dragon” Baptiste, will make their Madison Square Garden debuts in separate bouts on the February 16th Top Rank card. Todd, fighting out of Atlanta, faces 2020 Dominican Republic Olympian Euri Cedeno (7-0-1, 6 KOs), while Baptiste takes on ...
Diego Pacheco could not have been more pleased to hear Edgar Berlanga’s team finally mention his name. A once-unthinkable matchup between the pair of unbeaten super middleweights has now been teased as a possibility for later this year. Brooklyn’s Berlanga is currently due to face Belfast’s Paidrag McCrory (18-0, 9KOs) atop a February 24 DAZN show from Orlando, Florida. A ...
Artur Beterbiev has evidently grown very weary over Dmitry Bivol’s constant proclamations about fighting each other. The Russian light heavyweight champions could finally be nearing an agreement to put their respective titles on the line for the undisputed 175-pound championship later this year. Momentum for the fight kicked into a new gear after Beterbiev brutally dispatched challenger Callum Smith of ...
Artur Beterbiev wasn’t the only unbeaten, Montreal-based fighter trained by Marc Ramsey who impressed Eddie Hearn on Saturday night. The British promoter also scouted Christian Mbilli, who battered brave Australian Rohan Murdock until Murdock’s handlers stopped their fight after the sixth round at Videotron Centre in Quebec City, Canada. Hearn came away from Mbilli’s impressive performance thinking the unbeaten Cameroon ...
Erislandy Lara is back on the hook to honor a long overdue mandatory title defense. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that the WBA has ordered Lara to next defend his middleweight title versus Australia’s Michael Zerafa. Both parties were notified of the development on Monday via official letter, a copy of which was obtained by BoxingScene.com. “WBA rules entitle the President and ...
After the success of their stacked ‘Magnificent Seven’ show last November, Queensberry look set to continue with the winning formula by promoting another multi-title card in Birmingham on March 16th. European super bantamweight champion Liam Davies, British middleweight champion Nathan Heaney and former British super middleweight champion Zach Parker are all rumored to be in action on the show but ...
Eddie Hearn remains confident in Dmitry Bivol’s ability to defeat Artur Beterbiev, even after the British promoter watched what he called “a freak of nature” dismantle another fighter his company represents Saturday night. For Bivol to beat Beterbiev, however, Hearn understands that the WBA light heavyweight champion won’t be able to simply outbox the rugged Russian knockout artist. Bivol will ...