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Polish junior lightweight titleholder Ewa Brodnicka may not be the garrulous type, but she doesn’t plan on keeping her mouth shut either now that it appears she is projected to make her title defense against Mikaela Mayer later this year.
When Jamel Herring said he has gone through worse than the headbutt that Jonathan Oquendo gave him during their junior lightweight bout last week that led to Oquendo’s disqualification, he wasn’t joking.
Danielle Perkins was craving some papaya. It was 2008 and Perkins, then a professional basketball player in Europe, was back home in Brooklyn, going through her usual off-season workout routine, while awaiting an official transfer from her club in Spain to her new one in Turkey. The former standout at St. John’s University, where she led the women’s program in rebounding in the 2005-2006 NCAA tournament, had carved out a successful post-collegiate career in the international circuit, with stints in Italy, Czechoslovakia, Puerto Rico, Austria, and other far-flung locales. She was looking forward to a new day with her Turkish team.
Jaron Ennis might be the best blue blood talent on the American boxing scene. The question is if he’s ever going to get a chance to prove it against another top fighter. The undefeated welterweight from Philadelphia has made short work of his opponents, impressing observers with his rare combination of power and speed. Now, it’s gotten to the point where fans are wondering if he’ll face somebody who’ll actually hit back.
Live boxing in Quebec, out for the count during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, will soon be back on its feet. And, what’s more, limited attendance will be allowed. According to documents obtained by The Journal of Montreal Wednesday evening, the public health ministry of Quebec officially lifted its controversial ban on combat sporting events in the province. In addition, the shows will be allowed a maximum of 250 spectators.
Trainer Ronnie Shields isn’t too concerned about how his charge, Jermall Charlo, is perceived in some corners of the boxing universe. The Houston-based middleweight titleholder is gearing up for his highly-anticipated Sept. 26 Showtime pay-per-view matchup against the Ukraine’s Sergiy Derevyanchenko, in a fight that many consider to be Charlo’s biggest test to date. (Also featured on the card, scheduled to take place in a closed-environment at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn., is Charlo’s younger twin, Jermell, who will face Jeison Rosario in a junior middleweight unification bout).
Teofimo Lopez is going with the tried-and-true, as opposed to the new-and-bold, approach for his upcoming lightweight unification title against Vasiliy Lomachenko on Oct. 17. That means replicating some of the things that worked well for him in the lead-up to his title-winning performance against Richard Commey last December, including conducting his training camp from the same secluded suburb in New Jersey and bringing on, once more, noted trainer Joey Gamache as an assistant.
Shakur Stevenson doesn’t have to be a professional matchmaker to know that a potential fight between him and current lightweight titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko, somewhere down boxing's typically long convoluted line, makes all the sense in the world.
The pool of potential opponents for Canelo Alvarez, boxing’s current cash cow, dwindles with each passing day in the time warp of boxing. And now Billy Joe Saunders appears to be the latest odd man out.
Sergey Kovalev appears to have one less legal wrangle to worry about. The former light heavyweight titleholder is no longer the subject of a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed in January by Jamie Frontz, the woman who accused him of beating her in June 2018 after rebuffing his “romantic advances,” after she dropped the suit on her own accord. Frontz had sued Kovalev in January for allegedly failing to honor the terms of their settlement, which called for the Russian to pay Frontz $650,000, over a period of time, in three installments.