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Promoter Frank Warren doesn’t get why there is so much uproar over the fact that Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk won’t be meeting on Dec. 23 for the undisputed heavyweight championship.
Promoter Oscar De La Hoya is apparently eager to start working with fighters associated with Premier Boxing Champions. On Thursday, the founder of Golden Boy Promotions, sent out a call-to-arms on social media directed at fighters associated with PBC, the management firm founded by influential powerbroker Al Haymon and features such fighters as
The manager of Dmitry Bivol has revealed a shortlist of opponents his team has in mind for his charge’s long awaited return to the ring. Bivol, the WBA 175-pound titlist from Russia, has not fought since he soundly outpointed Gilberto Ramirez one year ago, in November. Prior to that win, Bivol was coming off the biggest moment of his professional career, a unanimous decision over 168-pound undisputed champion Canelo Alvarez.
Joe Cordina admits Edward Vazquez was better than he expected. The IBF junior lightweight titlist from Wales had a much tougher-than-expected inaugural title defense against Fort Worth, Texas’ Vasquez last Saturday night at Casino de Monte Carlo Monte Carlo.
Promoter Eddie Hearn felt his charge, Joe Cordina, deserved to hang onto his 130-pound title by the slimmest of margins. In what was the Welshman’s first defense of his IBF junior lightweight belt, Cordina outlasted a game Edward Vazquez in
Promoter Eddie Hearn is more convinced than ever that Tyson Fury will be no match for Anthony Joshua after Fury’s latest outing in the ring. England’s Fury, the WBC titlist, scraped by boxing newbie Francis Ngannou, a former UFC champion, last Saturday night
Promoter Eddie Hearn is apparently certain that the high-profile fight between Chris Eubank Jr. and Conor Benn will take place on British soil. The Matchroom Boxing head has been mostly vague regarding the question of where the controversial bout will take
Francis Ngannou wants one of his desired two fights next year to be a rematch with Tyson Fury. The former UFC champion from Cameroon has been soaking in the adulation after his better-than-anticipated performance against WBC titlist Fury in what was Ngannou's boxing debut last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Francis Ngannou apparently won’t be taking much stock into his official boxing record. As far as the former UFC champion from Cameroon is concerned, he basically defeated the top heavyweight boxer in the world—in what was his boxing debut, no less.
Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter, Alexander Krassyuk, was clearly disgusted by Tyson Fury’s latest showing in the ring. The WBC heavyweight titlist from Manchester, England, found himself floundering at times in his ballyhooed 10-round “crossover” match with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou last Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.