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Charles Hatley took exception on a conference call Wednesday to trainer Derrick James’ assessment of Hatley’s sparring sessions against Errol Spence Jr. James – who trains Spence and Jermell Charlo, Hatley’s upcoming opponent – said the two most recent sparring sessions between Spence and Hatley weren’t competitive. That, James contended, is why they haven’t sparred again.
Jermell Charlo doesn’t think Charles Hatley has faced good enough opposition to have prepared him better than Charlo for their upcoming title fight. Houston’s Charlo (28-0, 13 KOs) has beaten longtime contender Vanes Martirosyan, a past-his-prime Joachim Alcine and John Jackson in his past three fights. Charlo won the then-vacant WBC world super welterweight title in his last fight, in which he knocked out Jackson in the eighth round May 21 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.
Unbeaten WBC Super Welterweight World Champion Jermell Charlo will defend his world title against No. 1-rated challenger Charles Hatley Saturday, April 22 live on SHOWTIME® from Barclays Center, the home of BROOKLYN BOXING™.
Gary Russell Jr. will have to wait a little longer to fight again. The WBC world featherweight champion’s lengthy layoff, already approaching a year, was extended Tuesday because the opponent he was supposed to meet March 11, Oscar Escandon, has suffered a back injury. Escandon’s injury caused the entire card to be postponed.
BROOKLYN - More than just a fighter, Erickson Lubin is a boxing junkie. He watches everything. He sees everything. He knows everything - no matter the weight class. So of course he was watching on June 25, 2016. That was when, before Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter squared off in a Fight of the Year-caliber welterweight title fight, fellow 154-pound prospect Jarrett Hurd got his chance to shine and announce his presence to the world in a co-main event watched by millions at home on CBS.
BoxingScene.com has been advised that a Showtime televised doubleheader is being targeted for March 11 in Washington, DC. The card would feature two mandatory defenses, which involve WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo and WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. Charlo has a mandatory owed to Charles Hatley, while Russell will be ordered to face interim-champion Oscar Escandon.
Erislandy Lara would love to fight Gennady Golovkin or secure a rematch with Canelo Alvarez. The odds of Lara landing either of those fights seem slim, though, because Golovkin and Alvarez already have pay-per-view fights scheduled for March 18 and May 6, respectively, and supposedly are on a collision course. That’ll likely leave Lara to fight other 154-pound champions.
When Jermall Charlo changed the tenor of his fight with Julian Williams last month, the uppercut counter shot that did the trick was something he had been trying to set up all night — and something that his trainer had been working on for quite some time before then.
What a bizarre two years it has been for Houston boxing. On Jan. 1, 2015, the fourth largest city in the United States was devoid of any professional world titleholders. But by Dec. 31, 2016, there were three; all were compressed in the same division and two had identical DNA.
Demetrius Andrade was offended by Jermall Charlo’s claim that there’s no one left for him to fight at 154 pounds. Charlo could move up to middleweight for his next bout, but Andrade challenged Charlo to remain at junior middleweight to face him. Andrade, a former WBO 154-pound champion, thinks that Jermall Charlo, the IBF junior middleweight champ, and his twin brother, WBC super welterweight champ Jermell Charlo, are avoiding him.