Eddie Hearn doesn’t understand why Chris Eubank Jr. continues to turn down a much bigger payday for rescheduling his domestic showdown with Conor Benn than Eubank can make for fighting anyone else. Benn bluntly dismissed his rival as “a p-ssy” following his 12-round, unanimous-decision victory over Peter Dobson on Saturday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Putting together another deal ...
Conor Benn defeated Peter Dobson in a workmanlike unanimous decision victory on Saturday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Many expected Benn to score a stoppage win against the little-known underdog, but the 246 punches the Brit landed over 12 rounds didn’t do much damage to Dobson during their 150-pound catchweight clash. Soon after the fight, many notable observers chimed ...
The undisputed heavyweight championship fight billed as the “Ring of Fire” went up in flames Friday when Tyson Fury suffered a cut over his right eye. Fury’s fight against Oleksandr Usyk was supposed to take place on Feb. 17, but over a nearly 24-hour period, a new date was urgently announced for May 18, giving Fury just over three months ...
Inactivity hasn’t been the best friend of Jamal James as of late. In both 2020 and 2021, the lanky contender made just one appearance apiece. He also didn’t make the most of it, losing his WBA “Regular” welterweight title to Radzhab Butaev. Since then, James took over a year off to get his mind right. Once he did, he bounced ...
British middleweight champion Nathan Heaney is coming off the biggest win of his career, but he isn’t letting the result get to his head. Heaney (18-0, 6 KOs) will make the first defense of his Lonsdale belt against Brad Pauls in Birmingham on March 16. Although not confirmed, the 12-round bout is expected to headline Queensberry Promotions’ ‘The Magnificent Seven ...
Kolding, Denmark - TK Promotions put on a six-fight show at the sold-out Forum with super middle Jacob Bank headlining in a defense of the WBO European title against aging (close to 41) Spaniard Ronny Landaeta (21-6). It was one way traffic all the way as the speedy and hard punching hometown hero dominated the fight all the way. Landaeta ...
Leigh Wood’s dream of a hometown stadium headliner is not yet ready to become a reality. BoxingScene.com has learned that plans are on hold for a previously targeted rematch between Nottingham’s Wood and Leeds’ Josh Warrington. Matchroom Boxing hoped to stage the grudge match on May 18 at the famed City Ground, home to the Nottingham Football Forest Club. An ...
The years long wait to crown a 175-pound king will be over in a matter of months. Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol will finally meet for a fight that will crown the undisputed light heavyweight champion. Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia, announced the news Saturday, revealing that Beterbiev and Bivol will fight on ...
The manager of unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk clearly doesn’t think Tyson Fury is trustworthy. Egis Klimas did not hold back from castigating the WBC heavyweight titlist Saturday after it was announced that Fury suffered a gruesome cut during sparring, thus forcing the postponement of the undisputed heavyweight championship set for Feb. 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The February date ...
Dan Azeez and Joshua Buatsi may have sparred, they may share friends and they frequent the same areas but they took totally different routes to tonight’s WBA light heavyweight title final eliminator. Azeez started on the small halls but has steadily risen through the ranks, claiming area, English, British, Commonwealth and European titles and winning over fans with his old ...