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Kubrat Pulev and Jerry Forrest may go down in boxing history – but not for any positive reason. Pulev, the heavyweight contender from Bulgaria, dominated Jerry Forrest of Louisiana to win a unanimous decision on the Sergey Kovalev-Tervel Pulev Triller Fight Club undercard at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.
Emiliano Vargas wasn’t about to let his older brothers steal his thunder. The eight-time national champion and youngest son of former middleweight champion Fernando Vargas made short work of Mark Salgado, stopping the 23-year-old San Jose native in the opening round of their scheduled four-round lightweight contest on the Sergey Kovalev-Tervel Pulev Trillerverz undercard at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.
Evan Holyfield had the rudest awakening of his nascent professional career. In a stunner, unheralded, Missouri-based journeyman Jurmain McDonald stopped the highly regarded Holyfield, the son of Evander Holyfield, in the second round of six-round junior middleweight contest on the Sergey Kovalev-Tervel Pulev Triller Fight Club undercard Saturday night at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.
Sergey Kovalev has no plans on changing his promotional backers at this point in his career. The former longtime light heavyweight titlist from Russia who ran roughshod over the division in the first half of the 2010s recently restated his allegiance to Main Events, the promoter that took a chance on him and introduced him to the American public.
Sergey Kovalev believes the tight turnaround time leading into his 2019 match with Canelo Alvarez was the main reason for his losing that fight.
Sergey Kovalev is finally able to get a proper night’s sleep. The former longtime light heavyweight titleholder from Russia will be making his cruiserweight debut (200 lb limit) this Saturday against Tervel Pulev at the Forum in Inglewood, California. The 10-round bout will be promoted by Triller.
Oleksandr Usyk is apparently in tip top shape, despite the fact that he may have lost an abnormally large amount of weight. Reports surfaced last month that Usyk, the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion, had shed 22 pounds in the space of a week, just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Usyk’s homeland.
Light heavyweight titleholder Dmitry Bivol is not as confident as he once was in his ability to drop down to 168 pounds and compete in that division. Bivol cast some doubt on the idea that he would be able to participate in a rematch with Canelo Alvarez
Dmitry Bivol has a hard time seeing how the judges gave Canelo Alvarez five rounds in their light heavyweight title bout. Bivol, the 175-pound WBA champion from Russia, successfully defended his strap against the Mexican superstar last Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Yet as impressive as Bivol looked, he won by the slimmest of margins. All three judges scored it 115-113 for the champion, meaning Bivol won seven rounds to Canelo’s five.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. – For Calvin Ford, the recent social media grumblings from Gervonta “Tank” Davis are just signs of growing pains, nothing more. Ford, the longtime trainer of the hard hitting Baltimore native, brushed aside concerns that his mentee could be on the outs with his promoter Floyd Mayweather Jr. after recent tweets Davis published – now deleted – seemed to take aim at his famed handler. In his tweets, Davis, 27, indicated that his upcoming fight against promotional stablemate Rolando Romero, 26, was heavily pushed for by Mayweather and Co. because the fight is Davis’ last on his contract with the company.