Time isn’t exactly on Zhilei Zhang’s side. Now 40, the Chinese native was given, at the time, his biggest opportunity, a showdown against Filip Hrgovic. After 12 rounds and a knockdown scored, Zhang believed he did more than enough to earn the victory. That, of course, didn’t happen. It was back to the drawing board for Zhang. Ultimately, he was ...
Eddie Hearn, promoter for former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, is not completely sure if Tyson Fury is now past his best. In last fight, back in October, Fury struggled to win a razor-close ten round split decision over MMA veteran Francis Ngannou, who was making his professional debut in boxing. Fury was dropped in the third round, sustained a ...
Newly crowned World Boxing Association (WBA) Continental Welterweight Champion, rising Irish star Paddy “The Real Deal” Donovan (12-0, 9 KOs), returns to action this Saturday night (Jan. 27) at Ulster Hall in Belfast to make his first title defense against Williams Andres Herrera (15-2, 6 KOs) in a 10-round fight streaming live on DAZN. Donovan, who celebrated his 25th birthday ...
Conor Benn is confident that his commercial appeal is bigger than ever. The embattled welterweight from England is poised to return to the ring on Feb. 3 against New York’s Peter Dobson at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. It will be the second fight for Benn ever since it was revealed last year that he tested positive for the banned ...
Welterweight rivals Florian Marku (13-0-1, 8 KO’s) and Chris Kongo (14-2, 7 KO’s) have agreed to fight each other next. A date and venue will be confirmed in due course. A fight between the two has been building for some time and the feud came to a head last summer at the launch press conference for the delayed fight ...
Tyson Fury turned in an abysmal performance by all accounts in October when he sneaked by with a split-decision win against Francis Ngannou. Much like many of the boxing brethren had done before him, Fury was expected to dominate and blast the MMA fighter in an entertaining showcase. But the former UFC champion put up an admirable fight, even knocking ...
It’s become the currency of pound-for-pound status. Oh sure, it’s good to be a great fighter. But unless you’ve supplemented the status by capturing title belts across multiple weight classes, you’re doomed to a seat at the P4P kids' table. In fact, no fewer than seven of the 10 fighters on The Ring’s most recent best-of-the-best list have been champions ...
DiBella Entertainment fighter “Marvelous” Mykquan Williams sought to put on a breakout performance when he stepped into the ring last week in Plant City, FL, versus Luis Feliciano and he delivered, stopping his previously undefeated adversary in the sixth round. (photo by Emily Harney) Trained by longtime coach Paul Cichon out of Manchester Ring of Champions Society boxing gym near ...
Liam Smith has disappointing personal knowledge of how difficult it can be to deal with Jaime Munguia’s unusual offensive output. Mexico’s Munguia overwhelmed Smith, dropped the former WBO junior middleweight champion in the sixth round and comfortably beat him on all three scorecards in July 2018 at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Smith left the ring that ...
Purse bids for the fight for the vacant EBU heavyweight title between German Tom Schwarz (29-1) and Belgian Ryad Merhy (32-2), that were scheduled to be held today (January 22), have been postponed until January 30. According to German site boxen1.com, the postponement is at the request of the Belgian camp, who after the victory against Frenchman Tony Yoka may ...