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Teofimo Lopez is hoping to dive into the deep end of a weight class he has never fought at before. The former unified lightweight champion is set to return sometime in the late summer for what would be his debut at the junior welterweight division. Arnold Barboza Jr. has been reported to be a frontrunner to face Lopez.
Nonito Donaire was apparently just winging it in his 2019 barnburner with Naoya Inoue. Donaire, the four-division champion and current WBC bantamweight titleholder, is scheduled to face Inoue in a unification rematch June 7 in Saitama, Japan, Inoue’s homeland. Inoue holds the WBA and IBF bantamweight titles.
As far as promoter Frank Warren is concerned, Tyson Fury’s legacy is set and sealed for all posterity. Everything else, at this point, is just garnish. Fury, the WBC heavyweight titlist from Manchester, England, is coming off a dominant sixth-round stoppage of countryman Dillian Whyte last Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London.
Devin Haney is confident he won’t be the recipient of a crooked scorecard or two in his next fight. The Las Vegas-based WBC lightweight titleholder will hit the road this summer to challenge WBA, WBO, and IBF champion George Kambosos in Kambosos’ homeland of Australia on June 5. Their 12-round undisputed lightweight match will take place at Marvel Stadium in Melbourne.
Canelo Alvarez may not have any desire to stick around in boxing any longer than he has to, but he apparently is not about to abandon it anytime soon either.
Wladimir Klitschko apparently still has some ring ambition left in the tank. Klitschko, the former long-reigning heavyweight titlist who dominated the division from 2004-2015, suggested in an interview Monday that he has not completely ruled out a return to boxing, on the caveats that he can still get into “shape” and that the geopolitical alignment of his country does not drastically change anytime soon. “Dr. Steelhammer'' is currently tied up trying to defend his homeland of Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion.
Canelo Alvarez is brimming with otherworldly confidence ahead of what may be his toughest assignment in several years. The Mexican superstar is scheduled to face WBA Russian light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol in a 175-pound match May 7 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Alvarez, who has amassed titles in four divisions, has been tearing through the competition lately. He further enhanced his profile last year by completely unifying the 168-pound division with an 11th-round knockout of Caleb Plant.
Not even the thrill of authoring yet another highlight-reel knockout was going to keep Conor Benn from lashing out at his divisional rivals. Moments after stopping Chris van Heerden in brutal fashion in the second round of a welterweight bout at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, Benn, the rising 147-pound contender, addressed the fighters who have been calling him out for some time – presumably Florian Marku and David Avanesyan – and did not bother hiding his disgust.
Dillian Whyte feels he was neck and neck with Tyson Fury for most of their fight. Whyte, the mandatory challenger – and heavy underdog – for Fury’s WBC heavyweight title, however, ended up falling way short of bucking the odds in their scheduled, all-British 12-round title bout at Wembley Stadium in London last Saturday.
Like most of the boxing world, Derrick James came away pleased, if not in awe, of Errol Spence Jr.'s recent performance. James, the longtime trainer of the welterweight champion (WBC, IBF) from Desoto, Texas, could not help but offer a glowing review of his charge’s dominant 10th-round stoppage of Yordenis Ugas earlier this month at AT&T Stadium in Arlington