The 2024 Ring Masters Championships: Road to the Garden, New York’s premier amateur boxing tournament, kicked off on Saturday February 2, at Hempstead Boxing in Hempstead, NY. 450 amateur boxers, aged 8 to 68, will compete in 17 sanctioned events, from February to April. 2024 marks the largest event since the Ring Masters Championships debuted in 2018. The last elimination ...
Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down the conspiracy theories surrounding the postponement of the undisputed fight with IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO world champion Oleksandr Usyk. The fight was scheduled for February 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, the contest was recently pushed back to May 18 after Fury withdrew with a training camp injury. ...
Teofimo Lopez seems to have finally found his peace. He’s saying mostly all the right things in the lead-up to his Thursday bout with Jamaine Ortiz, the family drama that has often dominated pre-fight headlines in the past is absent, at least publicly, and with his short-lived retirement a thing of the past, he can finally move forward with his ...
Devin Haney simply can’t stand still. After taking care of business against Vasiliy Lomachenko in mid-2023, Haney looked down at the scales with disgust. He knew there were still a handful of big fights remaining for him at 135 pounds but making that arduous weight cut was out of the question. Haney wasn't sure if a five-pound reprieve would be ...
The promoter of Oleksandr Usyk isn’t sold on the supposed evidence explaining the gash seen around the world. The highly anticipated undisputed heavyweight championship between Ukraine’s Usyk, the WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO champion and WBC titlist Tyson Fury, set for Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was derailed a few days ago after it was revealed that Fury suffered a ...
Belgian heavyweight Ryad Merhy (32-2) has relinquished his position as challenger for the vacant EBU heavyweight title and German Granit Shala (15-0) has stepped in. In the other corner is none other than Daniel Dubois (20-2). The EBU has set February 19 as the deadline for purse bids. Shala is promoted by Agon Sports while Dubois is with Queensberry. ............................... ...
Sebastian Fundora received a devastating reminder regarding focus last April 8. The then-undefeated Fundora comfortably outboxed Brian Mendoza during the first six rounds of their fight that night for Fundora’s WBC interim super welterweight title. The 6-foot-6 southpaw shut out Mendoza on the scorecards of judges Lou Moret (60-54) and Zachary Young (60-54) and won five of the first six ...
The admiration Ryan Garcia has for Floyd Mayweather Jr. apparently goes beyond casual association. During a lengthy interview with Patrick Bet-David on the PBD Podcast, Garcia, the junior welterweight contender from Victorville, Calif., opened up about his much-publicized friendship with “Money May,” making it clear that he respects the Hall of Fame Fighter more than most people even within his ...
Masood Abdulah is fully aware that he isn’t going to walk a red carpet to title level. Fortunately, the heavy-handed featherweight is ready and willing to take the hard road to the top. This weekend he gets another chance to push his claims. After stopping the tricky former British super bantamweight champion Marc Leach last October, Abdulah (9-0, 6 KO’s) ...
It’s difficult to trap Canelo Alvarez against the ropes thanks to his slippery defense, but it was even harder to lock him into a long-term deal. For years the Mexican star sauntered around the boxing landscape listening to the best offers. Once he heard what was out there, he signed on for a transient amount of time. This past May, ...