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Unified light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev’s title defense against Adam Deines will be rescheduled with the probable date being Dec. 11 at the 14,000-seat CSKA Arena in Moscow, a source with knowledge of the plans told BoxingScene.com.
The team of lightweight contender George Kambosos has asked the IBF to invalidate Matchroom Boxing’s winning purse bid for a title elimination fight against Lee Selby and give the rights to Kambosos promoter Lou DiBella, the under bidder, asserting that Matchroom Boxing has not followed IBF rules and is not dealing in good faith.
Unified welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr. is preparing for a defense against former world titlist Danny Garcia, which will headline a Fox PPV card on Nov. 21 in Los Angeles, but he is also a boxing fan and looking forward to seeing stablemate Jermell Charlo’s title unification fight with Jeison Rosario.
Showtime Sports president and general manager Stephen Espinoza, who has overseen the network’s sports programming, including its boxing franchise, since 2011, gets numerous calls, texts and emails on any given day. But those who were trying to get in touch with him this past spring were met largely with silence.
In late July, Showtime Sports president and general manager Stephen Espinoza outlined most of the network’s boxing schedule for the rest of the year, but not all of the televised slots had been filled and other events might still be added.
The specifics of the WBC’s heavyweight mandatory schedule remain up in the air even though the winner of the rematch between interim titlist Alexander Povetkin and Dillian Whyte will be in position to eventually challenge for the full title, WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday night.
While Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn formally announced a slate of fall fights that will take place in the United Kingdom, including the Alexander Povetkin-Dillian Whyte heavyweight rematch on Nov. 21, the schedule for his Matchroom Boxing USA remains a work in progress. However, multiple sources told BoxingScene that there are three cards in the works that would stream on DAZN -- one in October and two in November -- as follow-ups to the one card Matchroom USA has put on since boxing returned during the coronavirus pandemic. That card was on Aug. 15 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Jessica McCaskill outpointed Cecilia Braekhus in a major upset to take the undisputed women’s welterweight title.
As far as former two-time welterweight world titlist Shawn Porter knows, his next fight will be a rematch as well as a chance to kick off a third title reign. Porter told BoxingScene.com that he has been told by adviser and Premier Boxing Champions chief Al Haymon that he will get a shot at the winner of the much-anticipated fight between two-belt world titleholder Errol Spence Jr. and former welterweight and junior welterweight titlist Danny Garcia.
One of the fights boxing fans want to see most is a welterweight unification showdown between two-belt titlist Errol Spence Jr. and titleholder Terence Crawford, both among boxing’s pound-for-pound best.
When former junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia returns to the ring in October, he will face battle-tested contender Tureano Johnson, Golden Boy Promotions spokesman Stefan Friedman told BoxingScene.com on Thursday.