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As Claressa Shields, perhaps the most accomplished female boxer in a generation, gears up for her mixed martial arts debut, she is making it clear that no love has been lost between her and boxing.
The bad blood between Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez continues to boil over in the public eye. The latest flare-up between the Golden Boy Promotions chief and his superstar ex-client involves an Instagram video post in which Alvarez is shown teaching a young fighter a few tricks inside the ring.
Light heavyweight contender Marcus Browne has been relatively quiet for the past two years, but his longtime trainer, Gary Stark Sr., is hoping his charge can change that trend by ending the year with a statement performance – against, no less, the feared, two-belt Russian champion of the division, Artur Beterbiev
A purse bid for the IBF super middleweight eliminator between #3 ranked Evgeny Shvedenko and #8 ranked Vladimir Shishkin has been scheduled for June 15, according to a letter sent out by the sanctioning body earlier today.
Two former employees of the New York State Athletic Commission have brought forward a class action lawsuit against the governmental body that oversees combat sports on charges of racial discrimination and multiple wage and hour law violations, BoxingScene.com has learned.
If Sergey Kovalev is bowing under the pressure from his out-of-the-ring shenanigans, he had not made it apparent during his training camp, according to his head trainer Buddy McGirt.
You can add the recent Buddy McGirt-Shakur Stevenson hoo-ha to the long list of bizarre boxing feuds. The controversy apparently stems from an interview in which McGirt, a hall of fame fighter and widely regarded trainer, lambasted in no uncertain terms the former 126-pound titleholder, regarded as one of the ace talents in the sport and cornerstone of promoter Top Rank, saying that his accomplishments are the result of mere promotional machinations. In a word, Stevenson is being “protected.”
Russian light heavyweight titleholder Artur Beterbiev probably wants to get a fight under his belt in the pandemic era before he even starts countenancing future unification bouts, but for his co-trainer, the big picture remains clear: targeting the other (for now) remaining threat in the 175-pound division.
Caleb Plant may think he is the best super-middleweight in the world, but to his divisional cohort David Benavidez, he is simply a low hurdle waiting to be cleared. “I would want to get a fight with Plant first, just to get that out of the way,” Benavidez told FightHubTV, when asked whom he preferred to fight first, Plant or Canelo Alvarez. “The time is past. We’ve been talking sh-t to each other, it’s been hyped up for like three years. I feel like it’s time. I might get that fight soon.”
Demetrius Andrade is dead tired of fielding inquiries about the time he supposedly “ducked” Jermell Charlo. Whatever it was, the incident stretches back to 2014–Barack Obama was president, HBO was still pumping money into boxing telecasts, and the coronavirus was a nonentity–when Andrade was scheduled to defend his junior middleweight title against Charlo on a Showtime broadcast in what would have the first of a three-fight deal.