Former three-weight world champion and International Boxing Hall of Famer Jeff Fenech spent the weekend in a Thailand intensive care unit thanks to an infected heart valve and now faces surgery.
The second time is the charm, according to promoter Eddie Hearn. Hearn feels confident that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will topple Tyson Fury in a planned rematch for February of 2020. Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,…
Sibusiso Zingange from Pretoria retained the WBA Pan African junior lightweight title with an eighth-round technical knockout win over Mziwodumo Paul Mangxilana at the Malamulele Boxing Gym in the Limpopo Province over the past weekend.
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya, who guides the career of Mexican superstar Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, admits that he didn’t recommend that his boxer move up by two weight classes to fight WBO world champion Sergey Kovalev.