Kalle Sauerland believes that Chris Eubank Jr would have proven a more worthy opponent for Saul “Canelo” Alvarez than will Jaime Munguia. Munguia, 27, will fight the undisputed super middleweight champion at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on May 4 in an all-Mexican fight to mark Cinco de Mayo weekend. His confirmation as Alvarez’s opponent concluded a period of ...
The retired Carl Froch, who in 2023 was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, was on Monday the guest of honour at a lunch hosted in London by the Boxing Writers’ Club. His final 12 fights, starting with his victory over Jean Pascal in 2008 for the vacant WBC super middleweight title and ending with his stoppage of ...
Victory with a lesson to learn is like gold to a trainer. So even though Ireland’s Callum Walsh had the Madison Square Garden Theater crowd on its feet following his ninth-round stoppage Friday night, Freddie Roach savored the thought that he can keep pressing his promising junior-middleweight to improve. “He didn’t fight his best fight. We need to be a ...
Callum Walsh (10-0, 8 KOs) stopped Dauren Yeleussinov (11-4-1, 10 KOs) in the ninth round to win the WBC Continental Americas super welterweight title in Friday’s headline fight at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. After the bout, Walsh, 23, was told he is now ranked 14th in the 154-pound division and was asked how it would feel ...
Cletus Seldin (28-1, 23 KOs) beat Jose Angulo (16-8, 9 KOs) by majority decision in an eight-round super lightweight clash Friday at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City. But that will likely be his second-best memory of the night. After the fight, Seldin, 37, thanked his partner, Jessica Ostrowski, for her support and proposed to her into ...
DAZN and its North America chief executive Joseph Markowski have mutually agreed to part ways, sources connected to the decision confirmed to BoxingScene on Friday following an initial report on the split from Sports Business Journal. An official statement is being prepared for Monday, a DAZN spokesman said. Markowski presided over DAZN’s bold entry into boxing, originally separating itself from ...
Salita Promotions has signed top super lightweight contender Michel “La Zarza Ali” Rivera to a long-term deal, adding a crown jewel to one of boxing’s most talented stables of up-and-coming fighters. “I am excited about reaching my goal of being a world champion,” said Rivera, who’s targeting a spring return. “This is going to be a great year for me, ...
Carl Froch fears boxing is being “ruined” by the millions of pounds it is accepting from Saudi Arabia. The 46 year old retired after the second of his two victories over George Groves, in 2014 – three years before Floyd Mayweather cynically fought the mixed martial artist Conor McGregor and before boxing started to be regularly staged so far from its ...
On Friday evening, Callum Walsh (9-0, 7 KOs) aims to continue his progression up the junior middleweight ranks when he steps into the ring at The Theater at Madison Square Garden to take to Dauren Yeleussinov (11-3-1, 10 KOs) and kick off St. Patrick’s Day weekend in the Big Apple. Walsh, a solid amateur who won European gold, turned pro ...
Neither Tyson Fury nor Oleksandr Usyk fought last weekend. Fury is still 34-0-1 with 24 KOs, 6’9”, 35 years old, the same as he was a week ago. Usyk is still 21-0 with 14 KOs, 6’3”, 37 years old, the same as he was a week ago. Nothing has changed in the past week. Nothing, that is, except perception. At ...