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The Association of Boxing Commission and Combat Sports, the governmental entity that oversees combat sports commissions in North America, has begun a new initiative that will seek to improve fighters’ understanding of rules and regulations in combat sports.
Four years after his last fight, light heavyweight Oleksandr Gvozdyk will be ducking through the ropes once again. The former 175-pound champion from Ukraine is coming out of retirement this Saturday to take on Argentina’s Jorge Daniel Miranda in a six-round light heavyweight bout at The Derby Room Pomona at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif.
Mikaela Mayer doesn’t get the sense that Eddie Hearn is willing to invest heavily in his undisputed female junior lightweight champion. Mayer, the former unified 130-pound champion from Woodland Hills, Calif., was perplexed by recent comments that Hearn made regarding a potential rematch between
Eddie Hearn can already hear the till whistling. The head of Matchroom believes former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is on the precipice of a very lucrative and potentially successful stint in boxing.
Anthony Joshua and his team did not see the purpose of taking on a southpaw for Joshua’s comeback fight. That line of thinking was apparently the biggest determinator in what led Joshua to select American heavyweight Jermaine Franklin for his next fight; Franklin boxes out of the conventional stance.
British heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte feels like he is being shafted these days by the powers that be, if recent indications of Anthony Joshua’s next opponent are accurate.
Oscar De La Hoya thinks Nate Diaz could use better representation. The Golden Boy Promotions founder and Hall of Fame boxer recently tweeted at Diaz, in effect extending an offer to work with the popular mixed martial arts fighter from Stockton, Calif.
Ben Shalom fails to see how the World Boxing Council factors into Conor Benn’s attempts to turn back the results of two failed drug tests. Benn, the embattled British welterweight, and his promoter, Eddie Hearn, have repeatedly insisted that the WBC’s
Anthony Joshua’s next fight may be more tune-up than world-caliber, but the pressure to win may be greater than ever, at least according to his promoter. Matchroom head Eddie Hearn did not mince words as it relates to his star charge’s attempt to rebound from two consecutive defeats to WBO, WBA, IBF, IBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Not even members from Artur Beterbiev’s own team were going to be tight-lipped when it came to Anthony Yarde’s ambitious efforts last Saturday night in London.