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Canelo Alvarez saw the writing on the wall for Ryan Garcia. The undisputed 168-pound champion recently opened up about the ongoing turmoil between Garcia, the lightweight star from Victorville, Calif., and his promoter, Golden Boy Promotions founder Oscar De La Hoya. Alvarez says he had previously warned Garcia about his current predicament.
Francis Ngannou says his confidence only grew after his lone public encounter with Tyson Fury. Ngannou, the decorated former UFC champion, is scheduled to make his boxing debut on Oct. 28 in Saudi Arabia against no less a fighter than Fury, the WBC heavyweight titlist who is considered by some to be the top talent in the
The fighters want it, as do their promoters, managers, and legion of middlemen and go-betweens. Now all that is left, apparently, is for the entity that is in charge of cutting the checks to make it all happen. According to promoter Eddie Hearn, the much-discussed and tantalizing heavyweight bout between his charge, London’s Anthony Joshua, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s Deontay Wilder, can only fail to happen at this point if the host,
Mike Tyson doesn’t envision an early night for the upcoming heavyweight curio between Francis Ngannou and Tyson Fury. Indeed, the former heavyweight great has a feeling that the fight will resemble trench warfare, which is to say, drawn-out and laborious.
Terence Crawford says he was planning to brawl from the get-go against Errol Spence Jr. before he was convinced otherwise. The undisputed welterweight champion from Omaha, Nebraska, ultimately decided to pursue a more methodical, circumspect strategy, using his jab and fighting out of the southpaw stance.
Top Rank head Bob Arum says a fight between his charge, Teofimo Lopez, and Ryan Garcia hinges largely on Garcia’s relationship with his own promoter, Golden Boy. Garcia, the junior welterweight star from Victorville, Calif., publicly feuded with Golden Boy founder Oscar De La Hoya in
Teofimo Lopez Jr. is nearing a return to his regularly scheduled programming. The former unified lightweight champion is coming off a banner win over Josh Taylor in June at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City to become the WBO junior welterweight titlist. The victory put to rest (at least for now)
A super middleweight fight between Jaime Munguia and Edgar Berlanga should be a cinch to make, according to promoter Eddie Hearn—"should" being the operative word. Although they share different promoters—Munguia is with Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy, while Berlanga with Hearn’s
Bob Arum adamantly denies any suggestion that Vasiliy Lomachenko is ducking Shakur Stevenson. Stevenson, the 26-year-old lightweight contender from Newark, New Jersey, recently laid into Lomachenko, 35, across several tweets, calling the three-division titlist a “chicken” and accusing him of avoiding him.
Anthony Joshua apparently doesn't hold the boxing public in the same high regard as he once did earlier in his career. The former heavyweight titlist from England is coming off a brutal one-punch knockout over late-notice replacement Robert Helenius in the seventh round last Saturday night at The O2 Arena in London. Joshua’s original opponent, Dillian