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WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said on Monday that he was surprised that heavyweight Dillian Whyte had already begun training for a rematch with Alexander Povetkin despite being medically suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control.
By Dan Rafael - Middleweight world titlist Demetrius Andrade, who turned pro in 2008 after representing the United States at the Olympics that year, has had a fine career in which he has won two junior middleweight world titles and a middleweight belt. He remains undefeated and at the top of his game at age 32, having taken very little punishment thanks to...
Arum plans to put the fight together to take place in early 2021. While Taylor (17-0, 13 KOs) is free and clear of any mandatory obligations that would interfere with the fight, that is not the case with Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs). He is saddled with another mandatory defense against England’s unbeaten Jack Catterall.
The five newcomers are a who’s who of boxing royalty, led by longtime pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., former longtime heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko, Puerto Rican legend Miguel Cotto, two-division world champion Andre Ward and three-division champion James Toney. They all had their last fights in 2017 and are eligible for the first time since last year the Hall of Fame reduced the waiting period from five years to three years before a fighter can appear on the ballot for the first time.
This past Saturday night, at the MGM Grand Conference Center, Jose Zepeda scored a dramatic fifth round knockout of Ivan Baranchyk. The junior welterweight fight was an absolute war and saw a total of eight knockdowns - with each boxer going down four times.
By Dan Rafael - Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has been putting on fights for 54 years and seen many classics. He has promoted or co-promoted numerous memorable slugfests, including Marvin Hagler-Thomas Hearns, all three Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales fights, Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo I, Timothy Bradley Jr.-Ruslan Provodnikov and all four Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez battles, to mention just a few...
Mark Breland, who has served as Deontay Wilder’s co-trainer for his entire 12-year professional career, will no longer be part of his team as Wilder prepares for a third fight against heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum was watching on ESPN+ on Saturday as unified junior welterweight world titlist Josh Taylor smoked obscure mandatory challenger Apinun Khongsong in the first round at the BT studio at York Hall in London.
Although Manny Pacquiao has expressed interest in a possible boxing match with UFC superstar Conor McGregor, a comment from McGregor on Friday that his next fight would come against the legendary eight-division world champion was met with amusement from Team Pacquiao.
It’s too soon to say whether superstar Canelo Alvarez, promoter Golden Boy and broadcaster DAZN will work out their issues but they are least trying to. Representatives from all three camps spent more than eight hours speaking to each other on a video conference on Wednesday in an effort to smooth things over, multiple sources told BoxingScene.com.