Golden Boy Promotions has officially entered the chat. For the first time since Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Golden Boy and DAZN-USA, a response has come from the California-based promotional outfit. A Statement Regarding Arbitration was submitted by Golden Boy on Monday, within the deadline imposed by the Hon. Judge Percy Anderson.
Impact Network will bring boxing back to its airwaves November 7. BoxingScene.com has learned that the Christian cable channel will offer a delayed telecast that night of a card scheduled to take place November 6 at the St. Petersburg Marriott Clearwater in St. Petersburg, Florida. In the main event, Kali Reis (16-7-1, 5 KOs) and Kandi Wyatt (10-1, 3 KOs) will meet in a 10-round fight for the vacant WBA women’s world 140-pound championship.
Let’s call it chapter nine. Every era has its multi-man rivalries but none has been better, or delivered more consistently, than the hardcore four in this one. Since 2012, Roman Gonzalez, Juan Francisco Estrada, Srisaket Sor Rungvisai, and Carlos Cuadras have faced off eight times. Almost all of the fights were memorable. Several are classics. Seven of those battles were at Jr. bantamweight and the latest chapter in the story will be told this Friday. Will it be the last chapter for the 32-year old Cuadras (39-3-1, 27 KO)?
More viewers watched ESPN’s Teofimo Lopez-Vasiliy Lomachenko fight on Saturday night than any boxing match on American television in more than three years. According to viewership figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, the Lopez-Lomachenko main event was watched by an average audience of 2,729,000. Viewership peaked at 2,898,000 toward the end of their 12-round main event, which Lopez won by unanimous decision.
Pick It: TBRB #1 Vasyl Lomachenko vs. #2 Teofimo Lopez (Saturday, ESPN+, 7:30 PM EST) - Paraphrasing Bob Arum, the promoter once described the problem of Roy Jones as not being without opponents. It was instead no one was building opponents for him. No one can say this Saturday hasn’t been expertly built towards. The IBF lightweight titlist, Lopez (15-0, 12 KO), has been built as a showdown for WBA/WBO titlist Vasyl Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KO) since he was a prospect.
By Keith Idec - LAS VEGAS – Vasiliy Lomachenko-Teofimo Lopez is far and away the biggest boxing match that’ll be broadcast on free or cable television since the sport returned to the airwaves June 9. Their lightweight title unification match probably is the most significant fight to air on either of those platforms since Keith Thurman edged Danny Garcia by...
Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and his legal team have responded to the action calling for their ongoing multimillion-dollar lawsuit to return to federal court. Attorneys for Alvarez and SA Holiday Inc. have filed an amended Notice of Related Civil Cases, coming two business days after DAZN Media Inc.—one of several companies named in the original complaint—filed a separate action for a Notice of Removal from Los Angeles Superior Court on October 8, thus generating a new case in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The notice submitted by Alvarez’s side calls for both cases to be assigned to and heard in the same court.
Ring City USA, a new boxing broadcast and content platform, announced today its first main event and co-feature for November 19, 2020. The inaugural event kicks off a broader, long-term rights deal between NBC Sports Group and Ring City that will feature live boxing events on Thursday nights on NBCSN through 2021.
Less than two weeks after Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez refiled his current multimillion-dollar lawsuit in a state courthouse, one key party has taken the necessary steps in an effort to return the case to its original home.
Pick It: TBRB #2 at 122 Emanuel Navarrete vs. Ruben Villa (Friday, ESPN+, 7:30 PM EST) - 25-year old former Jr. featherweight titlist Emanuel Navarrete (31-1, 27 KO) impressed the boxing world in unseating then-undefeated Isaac Dogboe. Now he moves to featherweight to face a 23-year old Ruben Villa (18-0, 5 KO) for a vacant belt.