Errol Spence Jr. rarely passes on the opportunity to take a jab at rival Bob Arum. Heading into his preparation for a potential star-making fight against Manny Pacquiao, the WBC and IBF welterweight champion Spence (27-0, 21 KOS) took another swing a...
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LAS VEGAS – Josh Taylor realizes the type of difficult fight that awaits him Saturday night. The Scottish southpaw still can’t help but think at times about the opportunities beating Jose Ramirez would create for him later this year. First and foremo...
WBC and WBO champion Jose Ramirez and IBF, WBA and Ring Magazine titlist Josh Taylor will fight Saturday night, and the winner will become the undisputed champion at 140 pounds. The only reason Ramirez and Taylor were able to win the belts in bouts...
Former welterweight champion Shawn Porter has admitted that he can’t continue to wait for a fight against Terence Crawford to come to fruition. Porter (31-3-1, 17 KOs) admitted that he’s moving on from a potential big-time fight against Crawford (37-...
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Canelo Alvarez is universally considered the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. In some instances, pundits and publications alike have slightly discredited Alvarez’s resume and haven’t listed him in the No. 1 position.
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The prospect of a Manny Pacquiao-Terence Crawford fight is dead, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum told BoxingScene. Arum said there was deal agreed to for Crawford to defend his WBO welterweight world title against Pacquiao, the all-time great eight-divisi...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - They’ll both be in the Hall of Fame. They’ll rarely be mentioned without the other in an adjoining sentence. But that doesn’t mean there’s no A-side when comparing Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. Freddie Roach’s assessm...
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Rising welterweight prospect Jaron Ennis appears to be a fan of Betty Hutton’s show tune “Anything You Can Do.” When it comes to comparing himself to the crème de la crème of the top 147-pounders in the world, the five-year pro Ennis (26-0, 24 KOs)...
IBF, WBA junior welterweight champion Josh Taylor is preparing for his upcoming full division unification with WBC, WBO world champion Jose Ramirez. The contest is scheduled to take place on May 22, likely at a venue in Las Vegas.
Barry McGuigan, former world champion and fight promoter, would much rather see a welterweight unification between Terence Crawford and Errol Spence. But in recent news, Spence is heading in the direction of a three belt unification with Yordenis Uga...
By Lyle Fitzsimmons - It’s a slam dunk. Or at least I thought it was. When word began circulating last week that Terence Crawford was in deep negotiation for a late-spring fight with Manny Pacquiao in Dubai, my initial reaction was that the Filipino...
Jamel Herring says that training and sparring with Terence Crawford has turned him into aa better fighter ahead of his title defense against Carl Frampton on Saturday. Herring put his WBO super-featherweight title on the line against Frampton in Duba...
Terence Crawford considers someone he has beaten to be the perfect opponent for Vergil Ortiz Jr.’s next fight. The unbeaten WBO welterweight champion doesn’t consider Ortiz experienced enough to challenge him just yet. Egidijus Kavaliauskas, on the o...
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Vergil Ortiz Jr. impressed Terence Crawford on Saturday night. Ortiz overcame some adversity in a difficult fight against one of Crawford’s stablemates and stopped Maurice Hooker. The 22-year-old Ortiz’s seventh-round, technical-knockout victory over...
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