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Claressa Shields believes Amanda Nunes is encroaching on her turf. The three-division titleholder calls herself boxing’s GWOAT, or the Greatest Woman of All Time, but she knows that in some circles the UFC’s Nunes, one of the most dominant and popular figures in mixed-martial-arts, is regarded as the top female fighter bar none.
Lou DiBella is supporting Sergio Martinez in his comeback fight, even if he has no intention of seriously promoting him in the ring again. The 45-year-old Argentinian and former middleweight titleholder will fight for the first time since his 2014 knockout loss to Miguel Cotto on Aug. 21 in Cantabria, Spain against José Miguel Fandiño (15-6, 8 KO).
Depending on whom you ask, the legal battle between Gennadiy Golovkin and his former managers, brothers Oleg and Maximillian Hermann, is either plowing forward like a diesel locomotive or inching along like a polar ice sheet.
Welterweight Vikas Krishan is hoping to jump back into the punch-for-pay leagues as he continues his hunt for Olympic gold. The two-time Indian Olympian has decided that the best way to brace himself for a third Olympics run is to re-assume his professional post, albeit temporarily. (In 2016, the Olympics ruled that professional boxers were eligible to compete in their games).
As Dmitry Salita prepares to put on his first boxing show of the COVID-19 era, he is ratcheting up his safety procedures…just don’t expect them to have all the bells and whistles of some of his more cash-flush peers.
As promoters were scrambling quickly to “bring boxing back” during the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier Boxing Champions took a different approach. It…waited. This wasn’t the Kentucky Derby, after all.
Robert Garcia isn’t taking any chances with COVID-19, not with so many elite fighters under his wing who have important bouts in the coming months. That’s why the respected trainer has hired a home nurse who will supervise weekly COVID-19 tests for anyone who enters his boxing gym - the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy (RGBA) - in Riverside, CA.
For the right fight, Teofimo Lopez could be convinced to stick around for a bit longer in the bustling 135-pound division. The strapping 23-year-old lightweight titleholder has mentioned repeatedly that his final fight at 135 will be his projected (partial) unification bout against Vasiliy Lomachenko – who owns two lightweight belt titles – mainly because his body is outgrowing the division. Lopez won his lightweight belt by knocking out Richard Commey in the second round at Madison Square Garden in New York City last December.
With each win, rung by rung, Vergil Ortiz Jr. climbs further up the ladder to boxing’s big league. In his latest outing, the 22-year-old Texan battered Samuel Vargas inside seven rounds last Thursday at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, CA. His next opponent could be a former world titlist, according to Roberto Diaz, the matchmaker for Ortiz’s promoter Golden Boy.
That Floyd Mayweather Jr. the promoter and his protege Gervonta Davis have had an up-and-down relationship over the years is no secret. But it may be more down than it is up, according to a mutual friend.