Terry Flanagan: record, next fight and profile →
Newly crowned WBC world lightweight champion Mikey Garcia wants to press ahead and unify the division. Garcia landed a brutal knockout to dethrone Dejan Zlaticanin in Las Vegas last Saturday to send out a message to the 135lbs division.
Felix Verdejo will still remain as the WBO's mandatory challenger to the lightweight title. Earlier this week, the current world champion Terry Flanagan announced that he was fighting hard punching Petr Petrov on April 8th in Manchester.
According to Artie Pelullo, the head of Banner Promotions Petr Petrov, will be getting another crack at a world title in the spring. Pelullo confirmed promoter Frank Warren's announced on Monday, that WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (32-0, 13 KOs) would be facing Petrov on April 8th in Manchester, England - as part of Warren's new television deal with BT Sport.
At a London press conference today, Hall of Fame Promoter Frank Warren and his new broadcast partner BT Sport announced initial details of the first four events to be broadcast on both BT Sport and BoxNation. Taking place at London’s iconic BT Towe
Promoter Steve Wood is one of the busiest men in the whole of British boxing and he expects 2017 to be no different as he gives Boxing Scene an update on his fighters and his expectations for them.
Promoter Frank Warren has tabled offers to Kell Brook and Luke Campbell to fight Liam Smith and Terry Flanagan next year. Both all-British fights would gain huge interest, however as of yet Warren has not received a response from the fighters’ management team.
Felix Verdejo’s return from head injuries sustained in an August motorcycle accident will come February 3 in Puerto Rico. An opponent for the unbeaten lightweight’s first fight back since that setback hasn’t been chosen. But he’ll fight a southpaw if matchmakers from Top Rank Inc., Verdejo’s promoter, can find one suitable for a 10-round fight UniMas will televise.
Billy Joe Saunders has been assigned with a mission he simply must accomplish in Glasgow this weekend. The WBO middleweight champion finally gets to make a first defence of the title he won nearly a year ago against Andy Lee. This time he faces Brooklyn based Russian Artur Akavov and, should he do what we expect and retain his belt, it is our intention to make up for lost time in 2017.
During the late summer as plans were being made for Felix Verdejo to face WBO lightweight belt-holder Terry Flanagan on the Manny Pacquiao-Jessie Vargas pay-per-view undercard on November 5th, the highly touted Puerto Rican prospect got into a motorcycle accident that scuttled those plans and sidelined him for the rest of 2016.
WBO super featherweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (7-1, 4KOs) has no problem with moving in weight to challenge Terry Flanagan, who holds the WBO's world title at 135-pounds. Lomachenko has already captured world titles at 126 and 130. He wants more.