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NEW YORK–Promoter Bob Arum apparently has no intention of loaning Artur Beterbiev out to fight on a different promoter’s broadcasting platform, even if the undisputed distinction is at stake.
Promoter Bob Arum is apparently taking everything Tyson Fury tells the media lately with a grain of salt. The head of Top Rank Inc. believes his star heavyweight charge will partake in some of the biggest fights that remain on the horizon of his career, despite Fury’s repeated claims that he is not looking to pursue boxing on the professional level any longer.
John Scully could not believe what he had just heard. The veteran trainer and former light heavyweight contender was watching the first episode of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, a piece of ESPN shoulder programming to promote the light heavyweight unification between Artur Beterbiev and Joe Smith Jr., when Smith uttered words unconscionable for a seemingly hardened prizefighter.
Crypto, skyscrapers, roller skate parks, NASCAR racing – the next business venture to go on the burgeoning financial portfolio of Floyd Mayweather Jr. may involve the NBA.
Eddie Hearn believes his charge, newly crowned titlist Joe Cordina, is the best bet in the 130-pound weight class to upset the division’s kingpin, Shakur Stevenson. Cordina, the 30-year-old Welsh native, is coming off a one-punch knockout of Kenichi Ogawa to win Ogawa’s IBF junior lightweight title earlier this month at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales.
Amid some sobering analysis, Virgil Hunter also had some high praise for his charge Joshua Buatsi. Hunter, the veteran Oakland-based trainer, offered some circumspect words regarding Buatsi’s latest performance in the ring.
Joe Smith Jr. always knew Dmitry Bivol had a good chance of upsetting Canelo Alvarez to the extent that he was willing to put some coin behind his opinion.
Danny Garcia foresees an attractive and all-too-makeable fight waiting for him in the near future. The two-division titlist from Philadelphia suggested in a recent interview that he would welcome a bout with longtime Cuban middleweight contender Erislandy Lara. Garcia said that Lara, who holds a WBC middleweight belt, was the first to float the idea of fighting one another. According to Garcia, Lara is amenable to fighting at a catchweight.
Robert Garcia was all in for training one of boxing’s biggest heavyweight stars in Anthony Joshua ahead of the Londoner’s upcoming rematch against Oleksandr Usyk, on August 20 in Saudi Arabia.
Naoya Inoue needs no reminder that his gifts inside the ring would be wasted without someone – like Nonito Donaire – on whom he can test them.