By Thomas Gerbasi - There really should have been a better storyline behind Jeison Rosario’s fifth-round stoppage of Julian Williams, a bout that earned Boxing Scene’s Upset of the Year award for 2020. Unlike other great upsets in the sport, Rosario’...
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Boxing legends, champions, top fighters and trainers gave their predictions for the FOX Sports PBC Pay-Per-View main event between unified welterweight champion Errol "The Truth" Spence Jr. and two-division champion Danny "Swift" Garcia ahead of thei...
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Dennis Hogan is staying patient for his next ring return. Hogan was being positioned to face former junior middleweight champion Julian Williams on December 26th, with FOX televising the card. While the fight had never been officially announced, it w...
Julian "J Rock" Williams plans to return to the ring in the very near future. When he does return to the ring he will do so with a new trainer. The former unified super welterweight champion has advised BoxingScene.com that he will now be working wi...
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Last month Erickson “The Hammer” Lubin (23-1) secured a second shot at a world title in the super welterweight division when he won an unanimous decision over Terrell Gausha in a Showtime main event broadcast. The final scores were 118-100, 116-112 a...
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UNCASVILLE, Connecticut – Derrick James didn’t dismiss Jeison Rosario’s career-changing accomplishment. Jermell Charlo’s trainer just considers Rosario’s upset of Julian Williams more a reflection of what Williams didn’t do than what Rosario did. Wil...
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Jeison Rosario isn’t the least bit content with winning a career-defining fight that completely changed his life. The IBF/WBA 154-pound champion claims he is even more motivated to beat Jermell Charlo in their upcoming title unification fight than he...
Jermell Charlo was one of the few people in boxing that wasn’t stunned when Jeison Rosario upset Julian Williams. Philadelphia’s Williams was a 30-1 favorite to beat Rosario and had produced the biggest win of his career in his previous fight, his ow...
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PBC announced a hearty helping of shows for Showtime and FOX for the rest of the year and one of the top former champions that were left off the cards, at least for the time being, was former unified super welterweight champion Julian Williams.
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Julian Williams’ days in the cutthroat junior middleweight division are numbered. “I think I have another two more fights then I’m going up [to the middleweight division],” the former 154-pound titleholder said on a recent episode of Time Out with Ra...
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The junior middleweight division is ready to roll again and Julian ‘J-Rock’ Williams plans to serve as an integral part of it. Fully healed from surgery and over his previous title-ending knockout loss earlier this year, Philadelphia’s Williams is no...
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With parity alive and well in the junior middleweight division, there is virtually no outcome at the top level that comes as a surprise these days. Case in point, the most recent changing of the guard in a division whose title picture has served as a...
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Julian Williams doesn’t think there’s much that separates Jermell Charlo and Jeison Rosario. The former champion could see either fighter winning if Charlo and Rosario square off in a 154-pound title unification fight. It is possible that bout could...
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As much as the competitor within Julian Williams wanted to exercise his contractual right to an immediate rematch with Jeison Rosario, he determined it just wasn’t the smart thing to do. Williams knew he needed plastic surgery to remove scar tissue...
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