Vergil Ortiz Jr. initially thought that Tony Weeks stopped his fight with Fredrick Lawson too soon Saturday night. In hindsight, Ortiz realized that the veteran Nevada referee probably spared Lawson from suffering a brutal knockout defeat in their 12-round, 156-pound fight at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. Weeks has drawn intense criticism for stepping between Ortiz and Lawson and halting another ...
Another year is in the books and it was a doozy both in and out of the ring. Fans said farewell to Showtime and hello to Amazon Prime. Tank-Davis-Ryan Garca lit up the box office, Terence Crawford and Naoya Inoue lit up the month of July with twin career defining performances, Tyson Fury got knocked on his ass by an ...
Moroccan super featherweight Moussa Gholam (20-1, 12 KOs) will headline “Rising Stars Arabia: The Revolution,” promoted by AAM Seddiqi Sports and sponsored by the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), on January 13th at Yas Links Golf Course in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The Rising Stars Arabia (RSA) series is the first of its kind ...
Rising heavyweight contender Frazer Clarke is expecting former two-time world champion Anthony Joshua to secure a dominant win over MMA veteran Francis Ngannou. Joshua has reached an agreement to collide with Ngannou on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou has become a heavyweight player after a better than expected performance against WBC champion Tyson Fury last October in Saudi Arabia. ...
During the 2000s in particular, the province of Quebec in Canada produced some of the most electric atmospheres on the global boxing scene. The province has been fight-crazed since the 1900s, but an influx of world-level talent and North American broadcast distribution in particular created a shining golden era for the sport in Canada. Jean Pascal, Lucian Bute, Adonis Stevenson ...
Teofimo Lopez Jr. was not impressed with the latest approach by Arnold Barboza Jr. to try and make a fight. It wasn’t so much his recent in-ring performance, though the two-division lineal champion and reigning 140-pound king had advice for that part as well. “Barboza needs to focus on getting better because he looked terrible,” Lopez insisted to a ...
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya hopes Ryan Garcia’s bromance with Floyd Mayweather Jr. results in some improvements to Garcia’s defense. The head of Golden Boy Promotions was recently asked to respond to a video on social media showing his ace client going on a late night run with Mayweather, and De La Hoya, a longtime rival of Mayweather, in and ...
Anthony Cacace finally caught a break in his hard luck career. BoxingScene.com has learned that plans are in place for Belfast’s Cacace to challenge two-time and reigning IBF junior lightweight titlist Joe Cordina. The bout is targeted for February 17 on the undercard of the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undisputed heavyweight championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The development was first reported ...
At The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, Venezuela’s Ismael Barroso (25-4-2, 23 KOs) proved he still has much to give by demolishing Ohara “Two Tanks” Davies (25-3, 18 KOs) at 1:33 of the first round. The victory gave Barroso the WBA's interim-junior welterweight world championship. The 40-year-old Barroso, viewed by many observers as an old man, was being pursued by ...
Oscar De La Hoya plans to set up shop in a city where he was once the sport’s biggest draw. The Hall of Fame former six-division champ and current chairman of Golden Boy Promotions plans to significantly invest his brand into local shows in Las Vegas. It was no coincidence that his team opened up 2024 with the Vergil Ortiz-Fredrick ...