Former world cruiserweight champion Johnny Nelson has warned Anthony Joshua that his inside fighting game will need to be on point ahead of his fight with Francis Ngannou on March 8 in Saudi Arabia. Joshua has won three on the bounce since back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, against Jermaine Franklin, Robert Helenius and Otto Wallin. Former UFC champion Ngannou has ...
The undefeated welterweight Gor Yeritsyan is ready to make his mark on one of boxing’s glamor divisions. The Freddie Roach-trained Yeritsyan (17-0, 14 KOs) again steps up on Friday when he fights Quinton Randall (13-1-1, 3 KOs) to headline a Tom Loefller 360 Promotions show at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California. “It's my first main event on UFC ...
Andre Ward was one of the greatest fighters of his era. Ward, from Oakland, California, was the last male US Olympic gold medalist and an undefeated two-weight world champion who has become a voice for many boxers who are voiceless. Ward recently spoke at a private event hosted by former world title contender Brandon Gonzales, and Ward discussed whether boxing ...
It is less than three weeks until Anthony Joshua and Francis Ngannou meet in the ring, but they have already come face-to-face on camera. In a Face Off interview for DAZN, the two heavyweights, 34-year-old Joshua, who is 27-3 with 24 KOs, and Ngannou, 0-1 as a professional boxer, talked about how the March 8 fight in Saudi Arabia came ...
Vasiliy Lomachenko travels to Perth, Australia to challenge George Kambosos Jr for the vacant IBF lightweight world title on May 12. The event is being funded, in part, by the Western Australian Government and continues the good times for Australian boxing. The nation invited Manny Pacquiao to Brisbane to face Jeff Horn in 2017 and the country has since produced ...
Promoter Bob Arum recognizes that promoting a boxing show at the newfangled Sphere will take a lot more effort than required for the typical garden-variety venue. The Sphere in Las Vegas, the latest glitzy project from billionaire Knicks owner James Dolan, is regarded as one of the most groundbreaking entertainment venues in the world, particularly as it relates to the ...
Professional Fighters League [PFL] CEO Peter Murray believes former UFC champion Francis Ngannou is more than capable of shocking Anthony Joshua. The MMA veteran will face the former two-time heavyweight champion on March 8 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ngannou signed on with PFL after parting ways with the UFC. Last October, when making his pro boxing debut, Ngannou nearly derailed ...
Zhilei Zhang didn’t even give Francis Ngannou “a puncher’s chance” before the former UFC heavyweight champion fought Tyson Fury on October 28. Like many within the boxing industry, the WBO interim heavyweight champ considered Fury-Ngannou a complete mismatch that shouldn’t even have been scheduled. The gigantic Chinese southpaw gave Ngannou plenty of credit for how he performed against Fury during ...
Promoter Frank Warren insists that Tyson Fury’s shaky performance against Francis Ngannou hasn’t at all dented his confidence in his ace client ahead of a highly anticipated undisputed heavyweight championship. England’s Fury is set to defend his WBC title against WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine on May 18 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The winner of ...
Turki Alalshikh apparently has no desire to start begging the biggest American boxing star to come over to Saudi Arabia. Alalshikh, the chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in the oil-producing country, recently said in an interview that he hopes Gervonta Davis, the power puncher from Baltimore, Maryland, will fight in Saudi Arabia sometime in 2024. When an annoyed Davis ...