The WBC has confirmed it will allow former unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) the opportunity to face the winner of the upcoming undisputed heavyweight title fight between Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) and Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), who meet May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The comments from WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman come in the ...
Filip Hrgovic (17-0, 14KOs) has long awaited his opportunity at a world title following his August 2022 victory over Zhilei Zhang (26-2-1, 21KOs), claiming a narrow points win over the Chinese heavyweight contender. The win over Zhang put the Croat Hrgovic into the IBF’s mandatory position for an opportunity against either Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua, who appeared on the ...
Carl Froch believes that the one-sided nature of Anthony Joshua’s victory over Francis Ngannou shows the extent of Tyson Fury‘s decline. Joshua, 34, on Friday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stopped Ngannou in two rounds that demonstrated how ill-suited the former UFC heavyweight champion is to professional boxing. Ngannou, 37, earned his fight with the world’s second-highest-profile heavyweight off the ...
Trainer Ben Davison has downplayed his influence on Anthony Joshua in his return to form following the former unified world heavyweight champion’s clinical knockout win against Francis Ngannou on Friday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) produced one of his most destructive performances in recent years, knocking down the former UFC titleholder twice before detonating an overhand right ...
WBC heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury has praised Anthony Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) following the former two-time unified world heavyweight champion’s stunning second-round knockout win over Francis Ngannou (0-2) on Friday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Joshua proved his doubters wrong following the showcase encounter with Ngannou, the former UFC champion, whom some believed could prove a difficult night’s work for ...
Super welterweight Louis Greene (17-4, 11 KOs) achieved a career-defining moment on the most prominent of stages, delivering a resounding first-round stoppage victory over the highly regarded Jack McGann (9-1-1, 6 KOs) at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A fight between the pair would have been a staple of any British boxing event. However, with the added glitz ...
Anthony Joshua was nonchalant, having despatched Francis Ngannou in crushing fashion in Saudi Arabia last night. He carried that demeanour with him into the post-fight press conference, where he was later joined by Ngannou. The former London 2012 Olympian, who had with the knockout improved to 28-3 (25 KOs), and the 34-year-old two-time world champion was open to boxing again ...
The world was left shell-shocked in October when MMA star Francis Ngannou dropped heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and danced above his dazed body. Fury had his hand raised at the end of the contest, but the world only saw one winner after Ngannou had done the unthinkable to the WBC champion. The excuses brigade began to point out Fury’s fleshy ...
Tyson Fury expects former WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder to return to the ring following his one-sided December defeat to Joseph Parker. Anthony Joshua (27-3, 24 KOs) faces Francis Ngannou (0-1) this Friday (March 8) in the Saudi capital. However, the original script had Wilder pencilled-in to finally face Joshua. Wilder then lost to a revitalised Parker (34-3, 23 ...
Tyson Fury revealed Wednesday that plans are in place for the winner of Friday’s Anthony Joshua-Francis Ngannou heavyweight bout in Saudi Arabia to meet the winner of Fury’s two-bout series with fellow heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk. WBC heavyweight Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs), speaking on a Queensberry Promotions stream to help promote both Joshua-Ngannou and his May 18 bout for undisputed ...