In the generation that he has presided over the Klitschko era of heavyweight dominance and Gennadiy Golovkin’s powerful middleweight title reign that featured 23 consecutive knockouts, promoter Tom Loeffler never missed any part of fight week. That all changed this week in New York, where Southern California’s Loeffler is guiding a Madison Square Garden Theater card Friday headlined by his ...
Two world title fights featuring Australian challengers have been added to the super card headlined by the vacant IBF lightweight world title showdown between Vasiliy Lomachenko and George Kambosos Jr. on Sunday, May 12 at RAC Arena in Perth, Western Australia. Mexican standout Carlos Cuadras will defend his WBC Interim junior bantamweight world title against former world champion Andrew Moloney. ...
Pedro, who competed in the UFC from 2016 until earlier this month for seven years, left the UFC with a record of 10 wins and five defeats, with five wins coming by knockout and five wins by submission. Danny Green, the founder of Green Machine Promotions and a former WBA light-heavyweight champion, unveiled the former UFC contender at a press ...
Ukraine’s Tsotne Rogava believes he is the future of the heavyweight division. Rogava returns on March 23 against Antonio Brown (8-4, 8 KOs) at the LumColor Phoenix Center in Ontario, California. Despite a resume that features just five professional boxing fights, Rogava's achievements are vast. He carved out distinguished Muay Thai and kickboxing careers before prioritizing boxing, winning all five ...
Anthony Yarde and Joshua Buatsi remain on course for an eagerly awaited light heavyweight showdown. On consecutive weekends last month, Buatsi first regained the British title by outfighting South London rival Dan Azeez on Sky Sports and then took his seat at ringside to watch Yarde dispatch the overmatched Marko Nikilic inside three one-sided rounds. Two-time world-title challenger Yarde (25-3, ...
Not long after Conor Benn and Manny Pacquiao came face-to-face in Saudi Arabia, Benn’s bitter domestic rival Chris Eubank Jr. teased a fight poster advertising a contest between himself and Terence Crawford. While there has been no confirmation whatsoever from Eubank’s side or Team Crawford that a potential fight between the middleweight from Brighton in the UK and the brilliant ...
Lauren Price will fulfil the two targets she set herself as a professional fighter if she defeats Jessica McCaskill on May 11. She challenges the WBA and Ring Magazine welterweight champion at the Utility Arena in Cardiff, Wales, meaning that for the first time she will be paid to fight in the country of her birth. Her other ambition as ...
Jessica McCaskill sees in Lauren Price the fighter McCaskill was when she was preparing to fight Katie Taylor in 2017. On the occasion of both of their seventh professional fights – Taylor had significantly more amateur experience – McCaskill fought the celebrated WBA lightweight champion, and despite defeat significantly enhanced her reputation. In her following fight she fought for and won the ...
Cardiff, UK (March 13, 2024) – Olympic Gold Medallist Lauren Price MBE will challenge Jessica McCaskillfor the WBA, IBO and Ring Magazine World Welterweight Titles on Saturday, May 11th at the Utilita Arena in Cardiff, live on Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland and Peacock in the USA. Following a glittering amateur career that saw her claim Commonwealth, ...
Come one, come all, professional boxers: I’m about to tell you how to land a huge fight. Here’s all you have to do: win. Stay undefeated if you can. That’s the most important thing. If you just keep winning, no one will be able to ignore you anymore. You’ll get a fight with a pound-for-pound talent or a huge ...