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By Dan Rafael - Terence Crawford was watching as Canelo Alvarez routed Callum Smith to win a pair of super middleweight world titles on DAZN on Saturday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio. But besides the main event, Crawford also watched with interest when fellow welterweight world titleholder Errol Spence Jr., who was ringside, was brought on for an...
Former unified lightweight world champion Vasiliy Lomachenko has returned to training, minus any work with his surgically repaired right shoulder, and unbeaten welterweight Alexander Besputin, who has not fought for more than a year, is scheduled to make his ring return, Egis Klimas, who manages both fighters, told BoxingScene.com.
In the epitome of a crossroads fight, former three-time light heavyweight world titleholder Sergey Kovalev and up-and-comer Bektemir “Bek Bully” Melikuziev will meet on Jan. 30 in the main event of a DAZN card at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow, sources told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday.
As soon as Anthony Joshua put away Kubrat Pulev by massive ninth-round knockout to retain his unified heavyweight titles on Saturday in London, the conversation immediately turned to the prospect of a unification showdown with Tyson Fury to produce the first four-belt undisputed heavyweight world champion. Both fighters say they want the fight. Their promoters claim they want to make it for the spring. Boxing fans are, of course, clamoring for it.
An undefeated pound-for-pound megastar. A dominating and record-setting longtime heavyweight champion. And an unbeaten two-division world champion. All three are going to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko and Andre Ward, three of the most dominating fighters of their era, were elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility in balloting results announced on Tuesday.
Even before unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua knocked out mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev on Saturday there was already much discussion about a possible showdown with champion Tyson Fury for the undisputed title.
By Dan Rafael - Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is ready to plow ahead in the wake of Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s No. 1 star, leaving his company last month. The way De La Hoya sees things he has rebuilt Golden Boy in the past and believes he is well positioned to do it again. De La Hoya was referring to when Al Haymon made a deal with then-Golden Boy...
After heavyweight Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller failed multiple drug tests for a variety of banned substances – HGH, EPO and GW1516 -- that knocked him out of a multi-million dollar shot at unified heavyweight world titleholder Anthony Joshua in June 2019, Miller’s career was in limbo.
Unified lightweight world champion Teofimo Lopez could be headed to mandatory challenger George Kambosos’ home country of Australia to defend against him in the spring. Talks to make the fight for April or May are under way, both sides told BoxingScene.
If Top Rank chairman Bob Arum’s plan comes to fruition three of the four major light heavyweight world title belts will be unified in the first half of 2021. There is a three-fight plan in place to make it happen, Arum told BoxingScene.