SAN DIEGO (March 19, 2024) — Emanuel “El Vaquero” Navarrete hopes to join an elite circle of his Mexican countrymen, but he’ll have to venture into a new weight class against one of its top contenders. Navarrete will take on Ukraine’s Denys Berinchyk for the vacant WBO lightweight world championship on Saturday, May 18 at Pechanga Arena San Diego. The fighting pride of San Juan ...
Undisputed super middleweight world champion Canelo Álvarez and unbeaten former world champion Jaime Munguía went face-to-face for the first time Tuesday at a press conference in Los Angeles, CA. The two will fight Saturday, May 4 headlining a PBC Pay-Per-View event on Prime Video from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. (Photos from Esther Lin & Ryan Hafey/Premier Boxing Champions) Source link ...
Should Jaime Munguia pull off the upset and beat Saul “Canelo” Alvarez on May 4, an immediate rematch will likely follow in September, around Mexican Independence Day weekend, Zanfer Promotions head and Munguia co-promoter Fernando Beltran told Boxing Scene. Alvarez’s manager, trainer and lifelong confidant Eddy Reynoso told Boxing Scene in a recent interview that Canelo previously had had rematch ...
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez insisted that Jaime Munguia “earned” being the latest challenger to his undisputed super middleweight title on May 4. After months of speculation surrounding the identity of his next opponent, Alvarez’s fellow Mexican Munguia was confirmed for the date at the T-Mobile Arena on Cinco de Mayo weekend. Alvarez’s status as the world’s leading fighter means he remains ...
South African star and two-weight world champion Hekkie Budler is closing the door on his decorated professional career. The 35-year-old, who boasts a 35-5 (11 KOs) record, was taken to one side by trainer and friend Colin Nathan today and Nathan told him he thought the journey they had been on together since 2007 was over, and Budler understood. Budler ...
Japanese prospect Kanamu Sakama passed away at just 20 years of age after being forced to withdraw from his scheduled March 18 contest at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall against Hiroki Oki. On March 16, Sakama pulled out of the competition due to ill health, according to World Sports Gym Chairman Tatsuya Saita. Neither the Japanese Boxing Commission nor local health authorities ...
We see a car roll to a stop in the desert. Rolly Romero pops the trunk — in a camera shot presumably intended to call to mind any number of Quentin Tarantino films populated with bad guys, or perhaps the final season of Breaking Bad — and pulls out a pinata with a picture of Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz attached to ...
Chris Billam-Smith and Richard Riakporhe have agreed terms for their rematch and are likely to fight in June. They will contest Billam-Smith’s WBO cruiserweight title five years after, via split decision, Riakporhe inflicted the champion’s only defeat, and await only a date in June and venue before their preparations can be intensified. “Everything has been agreed upon between the fighters ...
Regional promoters are the lifeblood of boxing. The likes of Top Rank, Golden Boy, PBC, Matchroom and Queensberry, among others, will continue to bring big-time boxing shows to bright-light stages, but before the stars that those organizations showcase arrive there, they first must climb through the ranks on smaller shows. Los Angeles-based Toro Promotions is boxing’s latest upstart company aiming ...
Rolando Romero is one of boxing’s most divisive figures, but he thinks people might have got it wrong about him. The WBA super lightweight champion, 15-1 (13 KOs), defends his title against Isaac Cruz at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on March 30, on the first boxing pay-per-view carried by Amazon Prime. “I’m kicking off Amazon Prime, people don’t ...