Tyson Fury confirmed that December 23 is the date on hold for his heavyweight title unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk. The unbeaten WBC champion must emerge from his 10-round fight against Francis Ngannou on Saturday night without any cuts or other injuries that could delay his showdown with Usyk. If Fury is relatively unscathed following a main event he is ...
Tom Aspinall will face Sergei Pavlovich for the interim Heavyweight Championship on Saturday November 11th at UFC 295 in Madison Square Garden. UFC president Dana White took to social media to announce the last minute change to the card. UFC 295 was originally set to be headlined by Jon Jones vs Stipe Miocic for the UFC heavyweight title. However, White ...
With Jon Jones ruled out of his scheduled title bout with Stipe Miocic, Tom Aspinall will face Sergei Pavlovich for the interim UFC heavyweight championship on Saturday, November 11 at UFC 295 in New York City. UFC president Dana White took to social media to announce the last-minute change to the card. UFC 295 was originally set to be headlined ...
Frank Warren has seen pretty much everything during his Hall of Fame career but the sheer scale of this weekend’s event in Saudia Arabia has taken even him by surprise. Promotion for ‘The Battle of the Baddest’ has been plastered over billboards around the world and tagged onto the front of YouTube videos for months. There may not be any ...
Tyson Fury responded incredulously when he was informed Tuesday night that one of his co-promoters stated moments earlier that he shouldn’t stand and trade with Francis Ngannou. Bob Arum reminded Frank Warren, Fury’s other co-promoter, of the nearly costly consequences when the 6-foot-9 Fury was aggressive against Deontay Wilder, who floored Fury twice during the fourth round of their third ...
Promoter Bob Arum says he knew a deal between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk was inevitable once Turki Alalshikh entered the picture. Talks between Fury, the WBC titlist from England, and Usyk, the unified WBO, WBA, IBO, IBF champion from Ukraine, were repeatedly stymied in the past year, with Fury eventually pivoting to a fight with ex-UFC heavyweight champion Francis ...
Johnny Walker has disclosed the conversation between himself and the UFC doctor, seconds before his UFC 294 bout was brought to an unexpected end.In an interview with Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, the Light Heavyweight addressed the peculiar stoppage of his fight against Magomed Ankalaev on Saturday night. Ankalaev landed a knee flush to the head of a ...
Boxing purists are calling the fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou a farce and giving the former UFC champion little to no chance to pull off the massive offset in the crossover clash. But if you ask Fury (30-0-1, 24 KOs), the WBC heavyweight champion appears to be spooked out by Ngannou (17-3, 12 KOs MMA) more than his ...
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has made it clear that Oleksandr Usyk will have to fight him in the month of December or face a lawsuit. Usyk, the WBO, IBO, IBF, WBA champion, saw action back in August, when he knocked out mandatory challenger Daniel Dubois. Fury returns to the ring on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia, where he faces ...
UFC Featherweight Champion Alexander Volkanovski has detailed his struggles when not competing regularly, after his loss to Islam Makhachev at UFC 294. Following the first round defeat, the 35-year-old addressed the media and opened up about the main reason behind taking the fight on such short notice, admitting that the money was not the driving factor. He said:“A lot of ...