The respected Alan Smith is preparing Moses Itauma for his fight at York Hall on March 22. Itauma fights for the eighth time as a professional against an opponent who is still to be confirmed, but he is increasingly being recognised as one of the world’s most exciting young heavyweights and is working with Smith in an attempt to accelerate ...
Wasserman Boxing hosted an EBU super welterweight title fight between Germany’s Abass Baraou and England’s Sam Eggington on Friday night in Telford. The Wasserman-promoted Baraou scored a majority-decision win over the 42-fight veteran 30 miles from his opponent’s hometown of Birmingham. The 29-year-old Berliner produced a dominant display over 12 rounds to secure the European title despite one judge scoring ...
Former heavyweight contender Adam Kownacki lost for the fifth consecutive time after being stopped by 12-1 (8 KOs) prospect Kacper Mayna. They boxed in Koszalin in Poland and Mayna took just 45 seconds to get the job done, trapping Kownacki in the corner and firing off relentlessly with both hands, causing referee Leszek Jankowiak to intervene. Thirty-four-year-old Kownacki is now ...
Edgar Berlanga is on a leisurely trip in Puerto Rico this weekend to support Amanda Serrano in her fight, but he’s making sure to keep his phone close by because Canelo Alvarez could come calling at any minute. As negotiations intensify for a potential fight between Alvarez and Jaime Munguia, Berlanga (22-0, 17 KOs) insists that he’s very much still ...
A Hollywood actor and a professional boxer, Javon “Wanna” Walton (1-0, 1 KO) is Jake Paul’s latest prodigy, and he fights Saturday, March 2, against Joshua Torres (0-1-1) in a four-round prelim bout. Walton’s second pro outing is billed as his ‘global debut’. While it’s unclear what that entirely means, his first fight saw him in the ring for only ...
CES Boxing returns to Rhode Island on Saturday, March 23, with a huge doubleheader at Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino. The popular Jimmy Burchfield Classic Invitational amateur showcase kicks off the day's festivities at 2pm, followed by a stacked professional boxing card beginning at 7pm EST. Dominican sensation Alejandro "El Abusador" Paulino (16-0, 13 KOs) gets his first main event assignment on the pro card, battling Estivan ...
Eddie Hearn has spoken about boxing’s lawlessness and the lack of “barriers to entry”. Hearn was discussing problems in the sport alongside his rival promoter Oscar De La Hoya on DAZN, and said that peripheral figures can get in the way of the biggest deals being struck. “Boxing is a unique sport where there’s no barriers to entry,” said Hearn. ...
Nina Meinke challenges the iconic Amanda Serrano for the IBF, WBA and WBO featherweight world titles tomorrow night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, the bout signifies a change in women’s boxing. The contest, live on DAZN, sees the two women collide over 12-three minute rounds instead of the traditional 10-two minute rounds. Serrano is in a scheduled 12-round bout ...
Dmitriy Salita wants to use Salita Promotions’ Big Time Boxing USA series to revive boxing in Detroit and to stage regular fights in New York. Ardreal Holmes Jr’s victory over Marlon Harrington at Detroit’s Wayne State Fieldhouse on February 20 represented the start of their broadcast agreement with DAZN, and Salita, who once fought out of the city’s revered Kronk ...
Amanda Serrano is poised to take the next step in her quest toward the equitable treatment of women in boxing, this time on the island where she was born. On Saturday at Coliseo Jose Miguel Agrelot in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Serrano will defend her three world titles against Nina Meinke. The catch: The bout will be fought in three-minute ...