Assuming Turki Alalshikh completes a deal with Artur Beterbiev’s promoter, Dmitry Bivol expects his undefeated light heavyweight rival to give him the most difficult fight of his career later this year. The unbeaten Bivol believes Beterbiev is better than his most accomplished opponent to date, Canelo Alvarez. The four-division champion was a 4-1 favorite to beat Bivol, but Russia’s Bivol ...
Shakur Stevenson loves himself a good fight. We’ve seen him dominate countless fighters across numerous weight classes on his way to becoming a three-division champion. Outside of what he’s done under the bright lights, when a ton of cameras aren’t rolling, Stevenson has been known to jump into the ring with Terence Crawford. Even when kidding around, Stevenson laced up ...
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is not ready to give up on a boxing match with former WBC world champion Deontay Wilder. Last October in Saudi Arabia, Ngannou made his professional boxing debut in a crossover bout with current WBC champion Tyson Fury. Ngannou impressed experts with his competitive performance against the man who many view as the top heavyweight in ...
After spending the vast majority of her career at 130 pounds or below as both a professional and amateur, Mikaela Mayer aimed about as high as she possibly could in her debut as a full-blown 147-pound fighter in taking on Natasha Jonas. Jonas spent 2022 establishing herself as the best 154-pounder on the planet, collecting three sanctioning body titles with ...
Last weekend in Las Vegas, Jason Moloney retained his WBO bantamweight title with a very tough twelve round majority decision win over Saul Sanchez. The scores were 116-112, 116-112, and 114-114. “The team did a great job with the cut but the blood, it was going into my eye,” Moloney said. “There were a few head clashes throughout the fight ...
The thought of becoming boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champion seemed far-fetched to Anthony Joshua and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, this time a year ago. Joshua lost on points to Oleksandr Usyk for the second time and failed to regain his IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO belts in their 12-round rematch five months earlier. And even if an ever-elusive fight with Tyson ...
This is the level that Natasha Jonas always wanted to be at from the moment she was ready to contend for a title. It’s also the moment at which she plans to spend what’s left of her storied career. The aptly nicknamed “Miss GB” survived a gut check to retain her IBF welterweight title via split decision over pound-for-pound entrant ...
Brian McIntyre doesn’t think the widespread acknowledgement that he was the top trainer of 2023 was based solely on the results he helped produce inside the ring. The veteran trainer of unified welterweight champion Terence Crawford said in a recent interview that he thinks his short stint in a jail cell may have played a role in helping him nab ...
Former UFC heavyweight champions Junior Dos Santos and Francis Ngannou were once foes in the MMA cage, but the two of them are now very respectful of each other. Dos Santos, who is very interested in crossover boxing matches, was very impressed with Ngannou's performance against WBC champion Tyson Fury last October in Saudi Arabia. Ngannou, who entered the ring ...
Arnold Barboza has put in the work over the years but he isn’t a recognizable name, even to the sports diehard fans. Since he isn’t overly known, it’s been easy for some of the lightweight division’s top contenders and highly ranked contenders to look past him. As of late, however, Barboza is starting to take matters into his own hands. ...