Come one, come all, professional boxers: I’m about to tell you how to land a huge fight. Here’s all you have to do: win. Stay undefeated if you can. That’s the most important thing. If you just keep winning, no one will be able to ignore you anymore. You’ll get a fight with a pound-for-pound talent or a huge ...
Pierce O’Leary believes he is primed for a career-best performance when he boxes the unbeaten Belgian Hovhannes Martirosyan on Queensberry Promotions’ ”Magnificent Seven” on Saturday. After spending years training with Alan Smith at the iBox Gym in Kent, the super lightweight decided that he needed a change. O’Leary has a young family in Ireland and leaving them behind to spend ...
“Mighty” Brook Sibrian is balancing a profession with a passion, while being co-signed by a future Hall of Famer Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Sibrian is scheduled to return to action on April 20 and once again on a Tom Loeffler-promoted 360 Promotions card with this one taking place from the site of her last bout, the Commerce Casino in Commerce, California. ...
Serhii Bohachuk fights for his first world title with a lot on his mind. Bohachuk (23-1, 23 KOs) faces Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 30. Bohachuk was in Ukraine waiting on his visa to return to the United States before the conflict began. Bohachuk had to go through ...
Carl Froch recognises he may have “dodged a bullet” by not fighting Joe Calzaghe when he hoped to. The retired Froch sought a fight with Calzaghe – then Britain’s leading fighter – shortly after Calzaghe fought and won for the last time, against Roy Jones Jr. at light heavyweight in November 2008. It was in December 2008 that Froch established ...
The WBC has confirmed it will allow former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) the opportunity to face the winner of the upcoming undisputed heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) and Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), who meet May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The comments from WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman come in the ...
Golden Boy Promotions announced today the signing of Joel Iriarte, a 17-time national champion and former Team USA member. Iriarte, who is of Mexican descent and grew up in Bakersfield, California, will make his professional debut on the Zepeda vs. Hughes undercard. "I am truly excited to announce my partnership with Golden Boy Promotions,” said Joel Iriarte. “Joining forces ...
LAS VEGAS – March 12, 2024 – Mexican superstars will go toe-to-toe as Canelo Promotions presents a Cinco de Mayo weekend blockbuster that will see pound-for-pound great Canelo Álvarez puts his undisputed super middleweight world title on the line against unbeaten all-action former world champion Jaime Munguía headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video on Saturday, May 4 from ...
Undefeated super middleweight contender Christian Mbilli, the Cameroon-born, Montreal-based wrecking ball, has inked a long-term co-promotional agreement with Top Rank, who will work with Eye of the Tiger. Mbilli (26-0, 22 KOs) is ranked in the top 5 of every major governing body and No. 2 by Ring Magazine. His ring return will be announced by Eye of the Tiger and ...
Light heavyweight contender Radivoke Kalajdzic returns to the ring Wednesday at the Whitesands Events Center in Plant City, Florida, facing fellow world title challenger Sullivan Barrera in a 10-round bout. With a championship fight possibly awaiting the winner, Kalajdzic (28-2, 20 KOs), who most recently stopped Mickey Ellison last September, says he is fully focused on Barrera. “Barrera is a ...