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With a bid of just over $1.5 million Epic Sports and Entertainment seemingly came out of nowhere to win the IBF purse bid for the heavyweight elimination match between Kubrat Pulev and Dillian Whyte, far surpassing the bids of Matchroom Sports and Team Sauerland.
As WBC super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez (22-0, 16 KOs) prepares for his first title defense against Danny O'Connor on July 7th - he is doing it under the guidance of trainer Robert Garcia in Riverside, California. For the past few years, Ramirez had been working with Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach in Hollywood.
WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (29-1-1, 24 KOs) kept his title last weekend in Toronto as he fought to a twelve round majority draw versus Badou Jack. Waiting in the wings now is the WBC interim titlist, Oleksander Gvozdyk, who the sanctioning body mandated would get the next crack at the belt.
Oscar Valdez's victory over Scott Quigg on March 10th on a rainy night at the StubHub Center came at quite a cost. Valdez - facing a Quigg who didn't even try and make the featherweight limit and came in heavy and thus ineligible to win the WBO featherweight title - suffered a fractured jaw, which hospitalized him for a few days after the fight.
While doing a phone interview on 'the 3 Knockdown Rule' podcast with Mario Lopez, promoter Eddie Hearn was asked about the status of the negotiations between IBF/WBA/WBO/IBO heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs), and WBC belt-holder, Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs).
In the wake of the twelve round majority draw between WBC light heavyweight titlist Adonis Stevenson and former two-division beltholder Badou Jack from this past weekend in Toronto, both sides have talked of a possible rematch.
It's been about two weeks since unified middleweight unified champion, Gennady Golovkin, blasted out Vanes Martirosyan out in two rounds. Originally, Golovkin was scheduled to face Saul Alvarez on May 5th until the Mexican star tested positive for clenbuterol and was suspended six months by the Nevada Athletic Commission.
After two highly acclaimed editions of 'SuperFly', which features the sports little big men, a third chapter of this series is being penciled in for the late summer. Tom Loeffler, who staged and organized the first two 'SuperFly' fight cards told BoxingScene.com - "The shows coming together, we're looking at September 8th as the date from HBO. Just confirming all the match-ups on the show. It should be a triple-header, again. This has been one of the most successful series on TV and it will be one of the most anticipated cards coming up for the year."
A few weeks ago, it was Liam Smith (26-1-1, 14 KOs) who was scheduled to face WBO junior middleweight titlist Sadam Ali on May 12th at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in New York. However, Smith suffered an illness and withdrew from the fight. And in his place stepped in young Mexican banger, Jaime Munguia, who proceeded to bludgeon Ali over four rounds this past weekend to capture the title.
With the formation of Matchroom Boxing USA and a new streaming platform with that comes with a hefty budget and 16 dates in America a year, UK promoter Eddie Hearn has made it very clear that he is looking to add to his roster of boxers.