Devin Haney angrily accused Ryan Garcia’s father of racism when the fighters again came face to face Thursday in Los Angeles to promote their April 20 fight date. Haney, the WBC super lightweight champion, is on course to make the first defense of his title against Garcia, his longtime amateur rival, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The ...
Top Rank Boxing on ESPN presented by AutoZone: Kholmatov vs. Ford will be presented live this Saturday, March 2, at approximately 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT, exclusively on ESPN+. The event takes place at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, New York. In the main event, Uzbek phenom Otabek Kholmatov will fight Raymond Ford for the vacant WBA ...
Ryan Garcia feels that his former training partner Canelo Alvarez would and should fight David Benavidez. Garcia (24-1, 20 KOs) is in the midst of promoting his April 20 fight against Devin Haney (31-0, 15 KOs) in New York, and Garcia stopped by the popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 FM, where he discussed Canelo. “He ...
Abass Baraou and Sam Eggington are weighed in and ready to go to battle in Telford tomorrow night. Baraou (14-1, 9 KOs) weighed in at 153lb 8oz for the vacant European super welterweight title fight while Eggington (34-8, 20 KOs) tipped the scales at 153lbs 11oz. The fighters have been given an added incentive over the past 24 hours. The ...
There is a featherweight title fight you better not sleep on this Saturday night. Camden’s Raymond Ford has his first shot at a world title against Ukrainian Otabek Kholmatov at the Turning Stone in Oneida in upstate New York. Ford is a gifted southpaw – poised and cultured, slick, quick, and gifted. He’s also only 24 and a former Golden ...
Kalle Sauerland’s Wasserman Boxing heads to the little-known West Midlands town of Telford this Friday to host the vacant EBU super welterweight title fight between Germany’s Abass Baraou and England’s Sam Eggington. Baraou (14-1, 9 KOs) has been the long-standing mandatory for the belt, but has struggled to secure vacant title bouts with France’s Milan Prat and and Liverpool’s James ...
Junto Nakatani is one of my favourite active fighters. On Saturday he produced a wildly impressive performance against a very-tough champion in Alexandro Santiago, who previously impressed when he won his title from Nonito Donaire. He was brilliant. Regardless of Donaire’s age, Donaire can seriously punch, so for Nakatani to completely control Santiago – disarm him; keep him where he ...
Edgar Berlanga’s trainer doesn’t believe that his fighter is ready to challenge Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – and nor does he think anyone else is. That Berlanga stopped Padraig McCrory in six rounds in his past fight has, in the context of reports of Alvarez preparing to split from Premier Boxing Champions and return to Matchroom and DAZN – who also ...
Chantelle Cameron has spoken for the first time since her split from her trainer Jamie Moore. The 32-year-old Cameron lost her rematch with Katie Taylor last November, which had followed Taylor losing via majority decision to Cameron in May. But Cameron revealed that she had spoken about splitting from Moore even before the rematch with Taylor. “It was not after ...
Undefeated heavyweight phenom Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson is angling for another big knockout. The fighting pride of Toledo, Ohio, steps up in class to face Belgian contender Ryad Merhy on Saturday, April 13, in the 10-round main event at American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas. In the 10-round heavyweight co-feature, Nigerian puncher Efe Ajagba and Italian standout ...