Former welterweight champion Kell Brook, if he returned to the ring, would embrace the possibility of fighting Chris Eubank Jr. Brook retired from the sport in 2022, after scoring a knockout over career rival Amir Khan. Last year, Brook had a ringside scuffle with welterweight Conor Benn in Dublin. Because of Benn's ongoing drug testing saga, Brook would prefer a fight ...
MMA veteran Francis Ngannou is scheduled to collide with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, Ngannou has not forgotten about a potential rematch with WBC world champion Tyson Fury. Last October, Ngannou made his professional boxing debut against Fury. Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion, dropped Fury in the third round and ...
Ismael Barroso made sure to get right to the point in a second chance opportunity he wasn’t sure would come his way. The newly crowned interim WBA junior welterweight titlist instantly emerged as a cult favorite following his first-round knockout of heavily favored contender Ohara Davies. Their January 6 DAZN-aired co-feature from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas came about only after ...
Now that Ryan Garcia has changed his mind about finally fighting Devin Haney, Bill Haney and his son have shifted their attention toward another rival. A showdown with Teofimo Lopez is the newly crowned WBC super lightweight champion’s highest-profile alternative to fighting Garcia in the 140-pound division. Bill Haney informed FightHype.com’s Sean Zittel on Saturday night in Las Vegas that ...
Five years ago, it’d be a no brainer. The unbeaten version of Anthony Joshua was coming off KOs of Wladimir Klitschko and Alexander Povetkin, among others. He was big and strong and aggressive and confident and appeared to be the British export who'd dominate the heavyweight division into the 2020s. If that guy still existed, he’d be favored to ...
Despite a remarkable debut in which he dropped Tyson Fury and pushed the unbeaten WBC and lineal heavyweight champion to the wire before losing a split decision, Carl Froch feels that Francis Ngannou needs to prove himself all over again when he takes on Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia later this year. As good as the former UFC heavyweight champion ...
Aaron McKenna versus Linus Udofia is the latest contest confirmed for the fight card on Saturday, January 20th at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and ESPN+ in the USA. The middleweight rivals meet in a special bet365 Wildcard contest for McKenna’s WBC International title on the undercard of Natasha Jonas’ ...
Errol Spence Jr. ended his social media hiatus on Monday by sharing a series of posts and developments. After Spence posted a video on Instagram announcing he had cataract surgery, the former unified welterweight champion took to X (formerly Twitter) for the first time since August to further address his first career loss to Terence Crawford on July 29. Crawford ...
Errol Spence has a 20/20 vision of who he wants to fight next. But before getting a shot at revenge fighting Terence Crawford in a rematch later this year, Spence has decided to repair his eyesight. The former unified welterweight champion Spence (28-1, 22 KOs) announced on social media Monday that he's undergone cataract surgery. “It's been past due. Sh!t ...
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was arrested for illegal possession of an assault rifle in Los Angeles over the weekend, according to a report by TMZ. The 37-year-old former middleweight titlist and son of boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. was taken into custody by the Los Angeles Police Department. Police were called to the scene because a fan was concerned ...