Caleb Plant officially fought once in 2023 and suffered a unanimous decision defeat to David Benavidez Jr. The former super middleweight titleholder also had an unsanctioned fight against Jermall Charlo in September during the fight week of the Canelo Alvarez-Jermell Charlo fight in Las Vegas. Footage showed Plant slapping Jermall with a leaping left hand. The scuffle left the boxing ...
TELFORD – Super bantamweight Tom Welland (3-0, 2 KO) scored a second-round stoppage against Esteban Troestch (1-3-1, 1KO) in Telford, opening the televised broadcast of the Wasserman Boxing promotion headlined by the vacant European super welterweight title fight between Abass Baraou and Sam Eggington. Welland, who turned professional in November 2023, kicked off his 2024 with a knockdown in the ...
When pro boxer Kali Reis was announced as the co-lead in the fourth instalment of HBO’s anthology series True Detective, the news was, to put it mildly, met with some raised eyebrows. Reis had previously acted in just two projects, only one of which – the independent movie Catch the Fair One, which she had co-written – had to that ...
From the peaks of standing as the Boxing Writers Assn. of America trainer of the year in 2022, Derrick James has traveled a turbulent path since. Following the losses of his top fighters, Errol Spence Jr., and Jermell Charlo, within a three-month period last year, James is poised to return to elite events with his fighters Ryan Garcia and unbeaten ...
Abass Baraou finally has the chance to fight for the EBU super welterweight title that he has long been mandatory for. The German fights Birmingham’s Sam Eggington live on Channel 5 and DAZN. Baraou’s challenge for European honours has been a long time coming – a fight for the vacant title was originally scheduled to take place in France against ...
Germany’s Abass Baraou fights England’s Sam Eggington for the vacant EBU super welterweight title on Friday night in Telford. The Shropshire town is far from synonymous with boxing, but, shortly from Friday's venue, the Telford International Center, sits the Telford Ice Rink, where the WBC super middleweight champion and local resident Richie Woodhall welcomed Germany’s Markus Beyer to the home ...
Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov (12-0, 11 KOs) will lock horns against American standout Raymond Ford (14-0-1, 7 KOs) for the vacant WBA featherweight world title this Saturday, March 2 at Turning Stone Resort Casino. This battle of unbeaten southpaws will see the WBA’s No.1 and No. 2 contenders compete in their first world title bouts. In the co-feature, Luis Alberto “El Venado” Lopez (29-2, 16 KOs) ...
It shouldn’t be too much longer before it is revealed when Conor Benn will return to the ring, who he will fight, and – maybe most intriguingly – where that fight will take place. In the summer of 2023 the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBC) and UK Anti-Doping launched an appeal against the National Anti-Doping Panel ruling that lifted ...
LOS ANGELES – Can a fight be lost at a news conference, more than one month before the first bell? The fact that’s now a discussion point tells you all you need to know about the mental undressing that Devin Haney delivered to a wobbled Ryan Garcia late Thursday afternoon at Hollywood’s Avalon Theater. The 25-year-old must have at least ...
Heavyweight Matty Harris returns on March 1 in Telford and begins rebuilding his career following his first defeat last July in Edinburgh. Harris (5-1, 4KOs) suffered a surprise upset against Kostiantyn Dovbyshchenko, losing via a fifth-round loss despite dropping his Ukrainian opponent in the second round. Harris has made changes to his set-up, hiring Peter Fury to lead his return ...