Mykal Fox: record, next fight and profile →
There was a sense of relief that resided over Mykal Fox when he was initially given the call. Following his recent trip to the ring, a highly controversial unanimous decision defeat at the hands of Gabriel Maestre in August of 2021, Fox returned to the drawing board while working tirelessly on his craft.
Kavaliauskas-Fox Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - Fundora vs. Ocampo will see unbeaten super welterweight sensation Sebastian “The Towering Inferno’’ Fundora seek to continue his dominance and demonstrate why he’s one of the most feared fighters in boxing when he defends his Interim WBC Super Welterweight Title against former title challenger Carlos Ocampo live on SHOWTIME on Saturday, October 8 from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California headlining a thrilling Premier Boxing Champions event. (photos by Esther Lin)
LOS ANGELES – Sebastian Fundora defied physiology again Friday afternoon, when the 6-foot-6 southpaw easily made weight again for a 154-pound fight.
With action kicking off at 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT, the COUNTDOWN show, hosted by Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell, features veteran welterweight contenders Egidijus “Mean Machine” Kavaliauskas and Mykal Fox squaring off in a 10-round bout. Featherweight contenders Viktor Slavinskyi and Edward Vazquez also meet in an eight-round duel, while unbeaten flyweight prospect Gabriela Fundora, the younger sister of unbeaten headliner Sebastian Fundora, kicks off the show battling Mexico’s Naomi Reyes in a 10-round fight.
Viewed as a sizable underdog heading into his welterweight showdown against WBO belt holder, Terence Crawford, in December of 2019, Egidijus Kavaliauskas believed that the stars were finally aligning.
Mykal Fox is set to return to the ring more than a year after launching a movement. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Fox will next face former title challenger Egidijus Kavaliauskas on October 8 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. The bout will likely air on a preliminary undercard stream preceding the
By Keith Idec - It would’ve been tough to blame anyone within the fighting Fox family for not wanting to set foot in the state of Minnesota again, let alone in the same Armory boxing ring where Mykal Fox was the victim of one of the most reprehensible scoring scandals in this sport’s recent history.
Progress continues to come from a night of in-ring injustice. The World Boxing Association (WBA) continues to take key steps towards cleaning up the mess created in its interim welterweight title fight between Gabriel Maestre and Mykal Fox. Venezuela’s Maestre (4-0, 3KOs) was awarded a highly questionable twelve-round, unanimous decision verdict and the secondary belt at stake in their August 7 bout that aired live on Fox TV from The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Mykal Fox will have to settle for a second fight in search of a win that should have come the first time around. The World Boxing Association (WBA) has ordered an immediate rematch between Venezuela’s Gabriel Maestre (4-0, 3KOs) and Maryland’s Fox (22-3, 5KOs), the sanctioning body announced on Tuesday. The need for a second fight stems from the controversial outcome of their August 7 meeting, in which Maestre was handed an unpopular twelve-round unanimous decision win in their Fox TV welterweight fight at The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Embattled boxing judge Gloria Martinez-Rizzo has a lot to answer for – and not just her recent bonkers scorecard. All three judges on the nationally televised Gabriel Maestre-Mykal Fox WBA interim welterweight title bout that took place last Saturday night at The Armory in Minneapolis were roundly lampooned for scoring the bout in favor of Maestre, a decorated amateur and two-time Olympian.