UFC bantamweight champion Sean O'Malley will look to avenge the lone loss of his MMA career when he takes on Marlon Vera in a rematch to headline UFC 299. As O'Malley prepares to enter the cage, he’s still entertaining the idea of crossing over into the boxing ring. In recent months the 29-year-old slugger nicknamed “Suga” has traded barbs with ...
Heavyweights Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou have official 'arrived' in Saudi Arabia ahead of their fight on Friday (March 8). Both sounded confident and talked at length with DAZN at the Grand Arrivals earlier today, and Joshua said he was itching to get into the ring against the Cameroonian wild card on the Knockout Chaos bill. “I’m ready, I’m looking ...
Mike Tyson has accused Canelo Alvarez (60-2-2, 39 KOs) of disrespecting boxing and Mexico with the undisputed super middleweight champion allegedly walking away from a lucrative proposal to face his mandatory challenger David Benavidez (28-0, 24 KOs). A fight between Canelo and Benavidez is one of the most attractive in boxing and has long been discussed, with Benavidez holding the ...
Mike Tyson has not been as involved with Francis Ngannou’s second professional boxing fight. Ngannou faces Anthony Joshua, Friday March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on DAZN pay-per-view. Ngannou, the former MMA champion-turned boxer without a professional victory under his belt, will look to have an encore performance having taken Tyson Fury to the wire last October. “For this one ...
Tyson Fury insists that the cut that caused the postponement of his eagerly awaited fight with Oleksandr Usyk has already healed and that he is ready to stop the Ukrainian when they finally meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 18. Fury and Usyk were scheduled to contest the undisputed heavyweight championship on February 17, but Fury was forced to ...
Trainer and former world middleweight champion Andy Lee knows a good heavyweight when he sees one. The Irish star has been an invaluable member of Tyson Fury’s camp, and he has reinvented New Zealander Joseph Parker for the second act of Parker’s pro career, culminating in the shock win over Deontay Wilder in December. Lee has spent the last several ...
Bruce Carrington is no longer a prospect, but a contender. Carrington had a spectacular knockout win over Bernard Torres in February in New York, and is looking to be a future star on ESPN and for his promoters Top Rank. “It is more ring experience and it is just going to come with time,” the featherweight told ESPN. Carrington, 26, ...
Michel Rivera (25-1) is still shaking his head at the upcoming fight between Rolando “Rolly” Romero (15-1) and Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (25-2-1). Their fight serves as the chief support to Keith Thurman-Tim Tszyu, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30. The pay-per-view fight card will also be Premier Boxing Champions’ first under their new agreement with streaming ...
On March 30, CBN Promotions will present its second show of 2024, set to take place at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California. In the eight-round super welterweight main event, local favorite Louis Lopez (14-2-2, 5 KOs), hailing from Corona, California, will face off against Jesus Resendiz (8-0-1, 6 KOs), from San Diego. The co-main event features a six-round super ...
Five months after Francis Ngannou performed heroics and pushed the lacklustre Tyson Fury to the brink before losing a split decision, the Cameroonian is back in Saudi Arabia and ready for an explosive showdown with Anthony Joshua. For all of Ngannou’s incredible physical attributes, he may have lost the one component that made him so dangerous last October – the ...