Highly touted junior middleweight Jordan ‘The Patriot’ Panthen, (7-0, 6 KOs), heads back into back into battle on Thursday, April 4 against hard-hitting Uzbek veteran Ravshan Hudaynazarov, (19-5, 14 KOs) in the eight-round feature fight at SOCA Fights from The Hangar in Costa Mesa, CA and broadcast live on TrillerTV starting at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT. ...
Filip Hrgovic (17-0, 14KOs) has long awaited his opportunity at a world title following his August 2022 victory over Zhilei Zhang (26-2-1, 21KOs), claiming a narrow points win over the Chinese heavyweight contender. The win over Zhang put the Croat Hrgovic into the IBF’s mandatory position for an opportunity against either Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua, who appeared on the ...
On June 6, Wise Owl Boxing will present the Butterfly Brawl, an extension of the popular fundraising event of the same name. The event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Warrior of the Light Foundation and City of Hope. The event will take place at Academy LA in Hollywood. (6021 Hollywood BLVD, Los Angeles, 90028) This year, ...
Junior middleweight Marques Valle, a promising power puncher, is on the verge of making a big name for himself in the division. Valle, in his first scheduled 10-round bout, returns Wednesday against Raul Garcia at the ProBox TV Events Center in Plant City, Florida. Both Valle (10-0, 7 KOs) and Garcia (13-1-1, 11 KOs) are 25-year-olds who turned pro in ...
An undisputed female minimumweight champion will be crowned when WBO and IBF titlist Yokasta Valle takes on WBC and WBA beltholder Seniesa Estrada on March 29 at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The matchup between Valle (30-2, 9 KOs) and Estrada (25-0, 9 KOs) is a highly palatable one, deserving of a headline slot on its own show. ...
Carl Froch believes that the one-sided nature of Anthony Joshua’s victory over Francis Ngannou shows the extent of Tyson Fury‘s decline. Joshua, 34, on Friday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stopped Ngannou in two rounds that demonstrated how ill-suited the former UFC heavyweight champion is to professional boxing. Ngannou, 37, earned his fight with the world’s second-highest-profile heavyweight off the ...
Oscar Valdez is on the hunt for another world title shot. The former two division world champion will take on Australian puncher Liam Wilson in a special 12-round junior lightweight attraction on Friday, March 29 at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. In the co-feature, WBC/WBA/Ring Magazine champion Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada and WBO/IBF ruler Yokasta Valle will collide in ...
Carl Froch has accused Jake Paul and Mike Tyson of “disrespecting” boxing by agreeing to fight – and hopes that Tyson “sees sense” before they do. The apparently endlessly attention-seeking Paul and Tyson, 57, have agreed terms to fight on July 20 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where whether they will fight in an exhibition or sanctioned professional ...
For a big man, Joseph Parker is known for being quite light on his feet – if not in the ring then in his brilliantly choreographed COVID-lockdown viral videos. But on Friday, in his interim world heavyweight title match with Zhilei Zhang, the star performer turned out to be Parker’s chin. On the undercard of the Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou heavyweight ...
Australian heavyweight prospect Justis Huni is now 9-0 (4 KOs) but he survived a tough test and a 10th round crisis to get by Kevin Lerena. Huni was hurt early in the fight and in real danger of falling apart in the 10th and final round, but he managed to ride out the storm, stay on his feet and snare ...