
Jake Paul Optimistic that Match with Anderson Silva Fight Can Rack Up 700,000 PPV Buys
Jake Paul has a feeling his showdown with Anderson Silva will garner him the biggest pay-per-view numbers of his nascent boxing career.

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Jake Paul has a feeling his showdown with Anderson Silva will garner him the biggest pay-per-view numbers of his nascent boxing career.

Oleksandr Usyk apparently thinks he can give the cruiserweight division another go. The current WBO, WBA, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion from Ukraine previously held all four major titles in the cruiserweight division, the first to do so in the four-belt era.

Former junior lightweight champion Shakur Stevenson won’t begrudge Vasiliy Lomachenko for not necessarily counting him as his No. 1 option.

With speculation running rampant that one of the biggest full unification matches in boxing is in peril, one of the participants decided he needed to give anxious fans a show of confidence.

Oscar De La Hoya is convinced a Canelo Alvarez versus David Benavidez showdown is nothing more than a pipe dream — and he pins the blame all on his former client.

The prospect of having to endure the most strenuous weight cut of his career was apparently not reason enough for Chris Eubank Jr. to seek some outside help.

The fight referred to by some as one of the biggest in British boxing history has become a case of he said, she said. Soon after promoter Eddie Hearn offered his take on why a Dec. 3 fight between his client, Anthony Joshua, and WBC heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury, could not be consummated, George Warren, the point person for Queensberry

Eddie Hearn hasn’t been pleased with how he has been portrayed by his rivals as it relates to the now apparently flatlined negotiations for a Tyson Fury versus Anthony Joshua all-British heavyweight showdown.

Promoter Eddie Hearn expects one of the most intriguing British boxing fights in recent memory to yield concomitantly high pay-per-view tallies.

The British heavyweight title fight touted as one for the ages seems less likely with each passing day. Discussions for a proposed Dec. 3 all-British showdown between WBC titlist Tyson Fury and former champion Anthony Joshua have seemingly reached an impasse, with Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing, stating on Monday that the fight is now essentially dead in the water, with the caveat that discussions can resume at any point in time.