Jermell Charlo: record, next fight and profile →
IBO/IBF/WBA 154-pound champion Jarrett Hurd’s hopes to emulate heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, who twice made bold, public appeals for desired fights. “The Bronze Bomber” disrupted Cuban southpaw Luis Ortiz’s post-fight in-the-ring interview in December 2017 following his second-round knockout of Daniel Martz, challenging him to and winning a fight by three-knockdown 10th-round stoppage in March.
IBF, IBO and WBA junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd can see the materialization of a 154-pound clash with IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence sometime down the road depending on how soon the undefeated southpaw follows through on his ultimate plans to rise in weight.
Rob Brant called IBF welterweight champion Errol Spence’s punching power “barely human,” and, “overkill,” as well as “on a different level” in comparison to 160-pound rival Ryota Murata’s. During their sparring days at R&R Boxing Gym in Dallas, Texas, Brant once “had the back of my hand bruised from blocking a shot from Errol Spence in 16 ounce gloves.”
NEW YORK – Tony Harrison didn’t think he’d get a shot at Jermell Charlo before Jarrett Hurd. Hurd, who stopped Harrison to win the then-vacant IBF junior middleweight title in February 2017, could face Charlo in an appealing 154-pound title unification fight next year. Hurd wasn’t available to fight Charlo on December 22 because Hurd wants a lesser fight in his first bout back from shoulder surgery he underwent in June.
Charlo Harrison, Charlo Monroe Photos Gallery - Twin brothers and world champions Jermall Charlo and Jermell Charlo took part in a press conference in Brooklyn Thursday to announce their fights that kick off a new season of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes live in primetime on Saturday, December 22 at Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™.
Twin brothers and world champions Jermall Charlo and Jermell Charlo will kick off the new season of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX and FOX Deportes live in primetime on Saturday, December 22 at Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™.
Premier Boxing Champions has finalized a doubleheader for December 22nd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The doubleheader, which is going to be televised on FOX, will feature WBC interim-middleweight champion Jermall Charlo taking on Willie Monroe Jr., while twin brother and WBC world champion Jermell Charlo will face Tony Harrison.
Demetrius Andrade believes that Middleweight is set to become the new ‘glamour division’ in boxing, and he’s ready to rule it as he prepares to face Walter Kautondokwa for the vacant WBO World title at TD Garden in Boston on Saturday night, live on DAZN.
The WBC will allow Jermell Charlo to make another voluntary defense of its 154-pound title in his next fight. At its annual convention in Kiev, Ukraine, the WBC voted Wednesday to afford Charlo the chance to make a second straight optional defense against an opponent to be determined. If Houston’s Charlo wins his next fight, he will be obligated to make a mandatory defense in his following fight against the winner of an elimination match between Erislandy Lara and Julian Williams.
WBC junior middleweight champ Jermell Charlo (31-0, 15 KOs), 28 years old, has raised his hand to fight the comebacking Floyd Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs). Mayweather, who last fought at 154-pounds and captured world titles from 130 to 154, is planning to return to the ring at the age of 41.